Welcome to the eTakeoff Newsletter
In each copy of the newsletter we’ll bring you news, usage tips,
interviews with eTakeoff users and more.
Product News
eTakeoff Release 2.6
Version 2.6 of the eTakeoff Viewer was released on August 8, 2011. Major enhancements were made to Pattern Search including the faster searching, the ability to define and reuse search areas, and the ability to refine a search. A batch “Import” capability was added to quickly name drawings and add them to a project. There’s also a “quick rename” feature that lets you quickly change an individual drawing or page description. Dimension Annotations were added. Click two points and the distance between them is displayed without creating a measurement (see screen shot above). Click here to read about these and other enhancements.
Basic Viewer Tips
Loading Plans from CDs, Emails, Zip Files, etc.
It’s as easy as 1-2-3 to load a set of plans into eTakeoff from a CD or DVD, an email, a Zip file or a Plan Room.
- Manually create a folder for your project.
- Copy the plan files to the folder.
- Create a New Project in eTakeoff by browsing to the folder you created in step 1, and eTakeoff will automatically scan the project folder (and any sub-folders) and add the drawing files to the eTakeoff project.
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For detailed instructions, watch the video, eTakeoff Training Video – Load Drawings & Create Projects.
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Advanced Viewer Tips
Creating Traces
Standard traces are pre-defined, commonly used traces that can be quickly assigned to a measurement in the Pro and ProPlus versions or a Quantity Worksheet item in Premier. Traces define the colors and other characteristics used to display mesasurements.
Learn how to create and use traces in these 2 videos:
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