Use this function to add areas or lines together or subtract sections from a measurement.

After purchasing Bid4Build Takeoff Live, when you receive your activation email, you will follow these instructions to activate the product.

You can build your own symbols and put them in a list for later use.

Need to add 10% to your takeoff quantity? Use this feature. You can also divide, subtract, and multiply.

This feature allows you to make notes on your marked up plan.

If you do residential roofs then this feature will allow you to takeoff the footprint of the roof and apply the rise and run of the roof giving you the true square area.

Version 3.5 includes numerous enhancements and additions to the reports which were available in version 3.0.  New reporting controls have also been created for estimate-based reports.

The spreadsheet keeps a tally of all attributes of all measurements. It also allows you to put in per unit prices for Labor, Material, Subcontractor, Equipment, and Other.

If your plan is skewed use this easy tool to make corrections to the horizontal.

If anything goes wrong with your computer, the backup manager stores a copy automatically for you. You can set the number of minutes to elapse between backups.

What do you do when part of a measurement falls outside of the screen area? This feature scrolls the screen for you.

If you decide to use the crosshair instead of the normal cursor, this allows you to set the color.

Color coding is useful for visually separating groups of like objects.

Use this for counting anything. Make your own symbols or use one of the predefined ones.

You can have as many sheets in a job file as you need. Each sheet corresponds to one page of a plan print.

Make up and modify your own symbols to be used for counting objects.

Change the cursor from an arrow to a crosshair.

To remove a measurement, select it and use the delete feature.

Delete any of the symbols you created.

Once created, any measurement object can be deleted.

Use this to delete entire sheets from your job file.

Optional export to Excel.

This allows you to only see the data that you are interested in, and to hide the data that you don't want to see.

If you need more space to display your graphic, simply change to a full screen view.

If you miss a point while measuring, you can go back and insert it.

Toggle the display of any or all of your individual measurements.

Sometimes you may need to get very tight on a point while measuring. Use the magnify feature to get a close up of just the area around the cursor.

Arc measurements are used to get tight measurements of a perfect arced area or line.

Measure any area using points along a line or trace freehand.

Measure any line using points along a line or trace freehand.

To zoom in or out, simply roll the wheel of your mouse.

There are numerous ways to get around your plan. Watch this video to see them all.

You can pop open the calculator at any time.

Once you've done all your markup, print it out to share with others.

Print out the entire audit spreadsheet.

Change the name of a graphic sheet.

Resize any areas or line measurements you have made.

Resize the spreadsheet columns.

Version 4 saves files to a folder named xxxxxxxxx.tkl.files, where xxxxxxxxxxx is the name that you determine.

Before any measurements can be done, you must set the scale.

Sort your symbols table by name, description, or quantity.

Resize a measurement by dragging one of its points.

This lets you add or subtract areas or lines from an accumulator.

Sometimes referred to as "layers" this lets you toggle on or off graphic objects.

With this feature, you can hover over a measurement and get a small attributes box that contains all the info about a measurement.

To trace along a line, simply click and hold your mouse button during measurement.

Undo points as you measure.