Recent improvements to Solid Takeoff, month by month. Many of them started as a request from someone using it, so if something is in your way, tell us.
Light and Dark, measuring in your own units, turning sideways drawings the right way up, and safer saving.
Live All plans, including Free
SolidTakeoff now comes in Light as well as Dark, so you can pick whichever is easier on your eyes. Your choice is saved to your account and follows you to every device. Dark stays the default, and switching never changes your drawings or measurements.
Live All plans, including Free
Pick the measurement system your new drawings start in: metres and square metres, or feet and inches and square feet. It follows you to every device. Drawings you've already measured keep their own units, and a teammate who works in the other system doesn't change a shared drawing.
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The scale window now lists the architectural scales 1/16", 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4" and 1" = 1'-0", and the engineering scales 1" = 10', 20', 30', 40', 50', 60', 100' and 200'. Each one is an exact ratio, so 1/4" = 1'-0" is 1:48, and on a drawing in feet or inches the scale button shows it the way it's printed on the sheet.
Live All plans, including Free
Press Detect in the scale window and Solid Takeoff suggests a scale for the page, from the scale bar, a labelled dimension or the title block. It now runs on a newer AI model. Always check the scale it suggests against a dimension you know before you measure.
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Plans drawn landscape or scanned upside down can now be turned without touching the file. Your measurements stay exactly where you drew them, each page turns on its own, and shared links and PDF exports come out the same way round. The original file never changes, and on Free it doesn't count as a new upload.
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One corner slightly out no longer means deleting the shape and tracing it again. Areas, shades and lengths can be reshaped point by point, and undo works as normal.
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Exporting an annotated PDF now asks which pages to include: All pages, This page, or Choose… to tick them in a grid. The summary sheet only counts what's in the file, and the file name says which pages it holds.
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Drawing sets that arrive as one PDF per sheet go in together, in name order, with each new page named after its file and a progress panel while it works. A file that can't be read is skipped and named, and the rest still go in. On Free, pages added this way don't count as new uploads.
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If a drawing doesn't load properly, Solid Takeoff now says so and saves nothing, so an empty screen can't be saved over your takeoff. If everything on a drawing suddenly disappears, saving stops and one button puts it back. And new measurements that hadn't saved when a tab closed are kept in that browser, where its storage allows, and offered back the next time you open the drawing there.
Feet and inches, shading zones on a drawing, and signing it off.
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Lengths can read 12' 6" instead of 12.5 ft, on the drawing, in the conditions panel, on the legend and in your exports. Areas stay in square feet, so your quantities don't move, and you can switch back whenever you like.
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Mark what's yours, what's phase two or what's out of scope. Trace the outline and it snaps shut on the point you started from, and you can set the fill anywhere from a light wash to fully solid. It looks the same on screen, in the PDF and on a shared link.
Live Setting it up is free; placing it is on Solo and Team
Draw your signature once, with a mouse, trackpad or finger, and stamp it on any drawing with your name, your title or company, and the date. It's yours alone: nobody else in your workspace can sign as you. Four sizes, and the date can be switched off.
Version history on every drawing, a Zoom tool, and copying a drawing to price an option.
Live Full timeline on Solo and Team; one step back on Free
Every drawing keeps a timeline of itself: a version every few minutes while you work, thinned to hourly and then daily, for 30 days. Go back to an earlier version in one click, and because restoring saves what's on screen first, a restore you didn't mean can be undone too. Mark the version you issued ("Issued to the client") and it's kept beyond the 30 days, up to 25 marked versions per drawing.
Live All plans, including Free
Get straight to a detail: drag a box round it and it fills the screen. While Zoom is selected the mouse wheel zooms on its own; with every other tool the wheel scrolls as usual, so it can't knock your view mid-measurement.
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Duplicate a drawing with every measurement, condition and note, then change the copy without tracing anything again. It's a real separate copy, so deleting one never affects the other, and on Free a duplicate doesn't count as a new upload.
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Editing a text box or callout now happens in the note itself, so the words appear where you're typing. A small bar sets the text size, colour and box fill, including no fill at all so the drawing shows through.