PDF plan sets or images (PNG / JPG). Then set the scale, and start measuring with the polyline and count tools.
Pick a drawing scale (assumes the PDF prints at 100%), or calibrate by drawing a line over a known dimension — calibrating is more accurate.
Enter the actual length of the line you just drew — e.g. 24', 12' 6", or 10.5 (feet).
Search across every project in this browser — projects, takeoffs, materials. Click a result to jump straight to it.
Pick the species and finish, then the details that describe it — size, profile. The proposal groups your items by species and lists them under each takeoff description.
A door schedule out of AvaWare, a hardware list, a supplier quote — anything that exports a CSV. In Excel: Save As → CSV. Comma, semicolon or tab delimited all work. Nothing is guessed from the vendor's name: you say which column is which, and you see exactly what will come in before it does.
🔎 M starts from a symbol you box. This starts from a word or a mark — D-12, W3, TYP, a keynote number — and drops a count on every place the plan prints it. Needs the sheet text read first (Sheets → Read plan text); it can't find text on a scan.
D-12
W3
TYP
D-1
The invitation to bid, the spec section, addenda, the GC's emailed scope clarification — kept with the job instead of in a folder you'll hunt for on bid day. Set the Customer / GC on the Proposal tab and the Jobs hub will group by it.These stay in this browser. The company copy carries the numbers, not the attachments — keep your own copy of anything you can't lose.
Bid totals are re-worked here through the live cost engine, not read back from when the job was last open — change your price book and these move. Mark a job won or lost as the answer comes in; that is what the win rate and the margin advice on the Estimate tab read off.
Drop several PDFs on the plan at once and every sheet lands here as one set. Drag a row — or use ▲ ▼ — to fix the order, ✕ to drop a sheet you are not bidding. ★ bookmarks the sheets you work from: with big sets only bookmarks and the current sheet stay in the sidebar. Rename anything.
What you draw on a set — never priced, never in the estimate. They live under Annotations in the Takeoff list.
A template is the list of lines a job of this kind always has — so nothing gets forgotten on the twelfth unit. Stamping one gives you a checklist; click a line and the next thing you draw lands already named, grouped and priced. Save your own from any job you've taken off; items are matched by name, so they carry across projects.
The two sheets, diffed. Changed areas are boxed in amber on the plan; anything of yours sitting in one is listed here, dearest first. Nothing is edited — this tells you where to look and what it's worth.
Bid-day pre-flight. Everything Turbo can see that would cost you money or embarrass you, on one screen — worst first, click any of it to go there.
Tell us what would make Turbo better. Suggestions are saved in your own browser — nothing is sent anywhere until you send it.
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