How long does a plan set actually take?
About an hour and a half of review on a typical set — the platform does the tracing
and the counting first, and what you spend your time on is confirming it. A small
sheet is minutes. You are not learning a new way to work; you are checking work that
is already done.
What if the PDF is a flattened print?
It still works, just differently. A layered CAD PDF is read directly from the
engineer's layers — the most complete result. A flattened or scanned sheet falls back
to image detection: items are suggested and flagged for your eyes rather than
presented as fact. The platform tells you which kind you uploaded, and why it matters.
How do I know a number is right?
Every marking carries its evidence, and nothing is counted until a person confirms it.
Where the scale cannot be verified, the length stays blank and says so — the one thing
a takeoff must never do is print a confident wrong number.
We have the CAD file. Can we use it?
Yes — upload the .dwg or .dxf itself. It gets plotted at a standard engineering scale
with every layer preserved, which is the most accurate input the platform accepts: the
layers are exact rather than recovered from a print, and so is the scale.
Can two of us work on the same job?
Yes. You see who else is on the plan and which sheet they are on, their markings
appear as they make them, and saves merge item by item — so nobody's work is
overwritten by someone else's autosave.
Where does our plan data live?
In your own workspace, separated from every other company at every page and every API
call. Larger teams can have the platform served from their own web address and
certificate.
