Measure drawings.
Export quantities. In minutes.
Solid Takeoff turns a PDF plan — or a photo or scan — into accurate lengths, areas and counts, right in your browser. Let AI find the scale, measure, group into conditions, and export a clean takeoff. No CAD, no per-seat enterprise pricing.
Open a PDF or image and measure without signing in — your work saves to this browser.
Everything you need to take off
Purpose-built for estimators and trades who just want quantities off a plan — not a CAD seat and a training course.
AI scale detection
Press Detect and it reads the drawing — scale bar, labelled dimension or title-block ratio — and proposes a scale with a confidence level for you to confirm.
PDFs & images
Open a PDF plan set or a photo/scan of a drawing. Set scale from a ratio preset or by drawing a known dimension.
Linear, area & count
Trace lengths, close off areas (with perimeter), and drop numbered count markers. Live values as you draw.
Conditions & waste
Group measurements into named conditions with a waste %. Totals update instantly and roll into your export.
Bluebeam-style markup
Text, arrows, freehand, text boxes and leader callouts — size and colour controls, drag to move, multi-select.
Wall area & volume
Give a linear condition a height and it reports m² as well as length; add a thickness and it reports m³ too. One traced wall gives lineal, area and volume — no second takeoff, no spreadsheet maths.
Trade symbols & legend
Stamp counts as real trade symbols — sockets, downlights, detectors, valves, water and waste points — instead of numbered dots, and drop a legend on the sheet so the client can read the drawing without being talked through it.
Reusable tool chest
Save the conditions and markup you set up on one job — colours, symbols, waste percentages — into named sets, and pull them onto the next job instead of rebuilding them every time.
Sharp vector PDF export
Exports draw onto your original pages rather than flattening them to a picture, so lines stay crisp at any zoom and the drawing's text stays selectable. Plus a CSV of the quantities for your estimate.
Cloud projects
Organise plans into projects and workspaces with auto-save, so your takeoff is there when you come back.
Version history
Every drawing keeps a timeline of itself, so a bad click or a wiped page is something you walk back from rather than redo. Mark the version you issued to the client and it's kept for good — you can always show exactly what you sent. On Solo and Team.
Real-time collaboration
Invite your team and measure the same plan together — everyone's marks and conditions sync live, and you see who else is on the drawing.
Take off together, live
Two estimators, one drawing. Open the same plan and every measurement, condition and markup appears for everyone as it happens — no refreshing, no emailing files back and forth, no overwriting each other's work. Coloured initials show who's on the plan.
From PDF to takeoff in four steps
Open a PDF
Drag in a plan set — or start from a saved project.
Set the scale
Let AI detect it from the drawing, choose a ratio, or draw a known dimension. Once per sheet.
Measure
Linear, area and count tools, grouped into conditions.
Export
Annotated PDF with a summary, or CSV for your estimate.
A free plan that actually works
Most takeoff tools give you a 14-day trial and then a bill. Solid Takeoff has a real free plan — all the measurement tools, forever. You only upgrade when you need more storage, teammates, or watermark-free exports.
- Every measurement & markup tool included
- 250 MB of plan storage
- Exports carry a small watermark
- One user — invite your team on Team
Your next takeoff is a few clicks away
Start free in your browser. Upgrade to Solo for $12.99/month, or Team from $49.99/month when you're ready to work together.