Estimating
Accurate estimates are imperative. Precise, reliable and fast bids are must-haves. Sage Timberline Office estimating enables you to save all kinds of time, curb risk, and maximize profits by automating your estimating process.
Our core estimating application gets extra muscle from a full range of thorough databases packed with thousands of standard industry items you can use right away — or enhance with your own unique items, formulas, and assemblies. You can also integrate with RS Means databases and pricing services, such as Trade Service Corporation. Add Digitizer or CAD Integrator, and suddenly it's a snap to generate tight, accurate estimates.
To simplify even further, get ball-parks or conceptual estimates out in a hurry. With Model Estimating, answer a basic series of on-screen questions and view the impact of your changes.
Sage Timberline Office estimating enables you to save all kinds of time, curb risk, and maximize profits by automating your estimating process. The Sage Timberline Office Commercial Knowledgebase gives you ready-to-go models also supported by RS Means pricing.
- Create quick, accurate estimates backed by material, cost, and labour details.
- Use multiple takeoff methods to create detailed customizable estimates.
- Compare new estimates with other similar jobs to spot potential errors before they happen.
- Transfer estimates to Job Cost for budget-to-cost comparison.
- Analyse estimates from a variety of angles, like by floor or phase of work.
- Drill down through multiple layers to finer and finer detail using rich database capabilities.
- Perform quick calculations for an instant sanity check by dropping in your assumptions using Model Estimating's fill-in-the-blank format.
- Create conceptual estimates and easily incorporate bids from subcontractors and suppliers.
- Do fast takeoffs directly from CAD drawing files.
Onscreen Take Off
Connecting Sage Timberline Office estimating software with On Center's On-Screen Takeoff™ application, ePlan Takeoff lets you generate counts and quantity takeoffs directly from electronic drawings for instant use in your estimates. ePlan Takeoff gives you the ability to quickly transfer project dimensions including lengths, areas, and volumes. It streamlines takeoff, provides a takeoff audit trail, and lets you create accurate estimates without ever needing to pore over bulky blueprints.
Features and efficiencies
- Receive takeoff values from your digital plans and send those values directly to an estimate.
- Associate estimates with digital plans stored in a variety of file formats. These include CAD formats such as dwg and dxf, plus jpeg, bmp, tiff, and pdf, as well as the On-Screen Takeoff format, the Dodge plan format, and standard government file formats including the Corps of Engineers.
- Save digital plan quantities and images to the dimensions list window to use later.
- Recall the last perimeter you digitized from an estimating spreadsheet quantity cell or from the item or assembly takeoff window.
- Access your On-Screen Takeoff values and images while you review assemblies.