Cad Estimating Software for Procurement

Cad estimating software for Procurement

hello everyone this is going to be a short video demonstration of the quote soft uh piping program uh and how it's used in the plumbing industry in particular and so you're looking at a full screen uh set up here a full take off in our program with uh several different systems here we've got the green is your sanitary below grade we've got your uh red and blue is your hot and cold water and the yellow is your gas the only thing we don't have here is the waste and vent showing and uh and so i just want to briefly kind of talk about how we do the takeoff in our program but i want to start by showing you a finished product and then explaining the screen a little bit of course you got the main screen area here this is going to be the drawing and the takeoff itself but then starting over here in the bottom left this is your size palette this determines the size of the items that will be available if you look on your fittings palette for example it does it does dynamically change when you select the size and that's because only certain fittings are available in certain sizes so we want to make sure that you take off uh only the fittings that are available in that size here we've got your pipe options you got your standard pipe vertical pipe or branch piping and then we've also got your fittings that can be shown in picture or in text you can show these in text if you prefer but you do get used to the pictures pretty quickly and there's a hover over that kind of shows you what the uh the item is um to the right here we've got your valves and flanges if we were in a different system uh we would show you valves there when we get to the do the takeoff for domestic water i'll show you that we're currently in the uh the sanitary system and so we don't have any valves or flanges to speak of uh specialty items here we've got a foundation sleeve and hangers we've got excavation because we're working in an underground system currently but as we change to other systems these lists will populate differently i want to show you we also have a full list of assemblies here in our program and notice this is kind of a small box down here to the right i want to show you is that we can pull this out and actually this screen be customized however it needs to be customized and so you can make this bigger or smaller and you see i've got a whole setting of different assemblies here i've got heating cooling as well as plumbing assemblies well over over 400 different assemblies on the list here and you can sort these down to a much more reasonable uh list by simply clicking the letters so if you're for example looking for a water closet assembly or a water heater assembly you know here we we have them uh uh your water heater as i click around on these it shows you the different pictures as well as the bill of materials there and so take this two inch hot water heater um you'll notice in a simple double click we'll put this back you'll notice this image here this image here i can pop out and of course i can make this bigger or or smaller if you want to take a look at it it shows you everything that's in the assembly and then to the right here is the bill of materials of everything that's in there so you can verify the items before you take them off and if you need to edit these assemblies you can also edit them on the fly as well if i wanted to edit this i simply right click hit edit and i can adjust the bill of materials that's in there and change other factors about the assembly right here and take off that's just a brief overview here of of how the screen is laid out to the right here we've we've got the audit trail the audit trail lists out the items that you've taken off and as you click on the audit trail it highlights the item and shows you what item that is uh in in the system here and if you're zoomed in if i were to zoom in on an area and click around in the audit trail it will jump me to where that item is on the screen and place it in the center so what we're going to do is we'll work on a new takeoff here so we're going to start on a blank slate for this drawing i'm going to hit new zone for our zone here we're going to declare our system so in this case we're going to work on the sanitary below grade this is in the west wing of the building so that's going to be our zone name drawing is p1 and floor is ug for underground these all all of these categories become ways that you can further break out your project and quotes off so you can easily look at in your reports at the end look at the drawing by floor by drawing number by zone name by spec name or by any combination thereof and we have even further breakouts that you can add in your takeoff or for specific areas on a drawing or to break off break out items literally for any reason you can imagine it's it's just a wide open wide open infrastructure there including this miscellaneous info a b c d and e a b c and d that you can label and name to have even further breakouts we also have a cost code and labor code breakout system as well that we can get into in more detail at another time and so i'm going to hit okay and what this is going to do is it's going to create a new zone for my takeoff on this drawing okay so now we're in a new zone here with a blank slate here and uh and so i'm just going to briefly go over how the takeoff works in our program first you select a size and then you select an item so if i want to scale pipe you select pipe and to scale this pipe out you simply just click at one end and click at the other it really is that simple um it's uh if you want to come back here and put a y in you just simply grab your y from your list and place that on the screen and as necessary right go back to pipe and this is what we call our basic takeoff it's uh it's something that anybody first day could easily get down in the system it's just as simple as selecting a size selecting an item clicking it on the screen okay so that's a very basic form of takeoff every user will be able to get that down on their first uh first at bat um on the uh but as far as some more advanced features go we actually have an auto pipe feature that fills the pipe in between as you go from fitting to fitting and so if i start with say a two way clean out and i click this down you notice the pipe is following my cursor and so i go to my y place that go to my next y place that i can scroll pan over on the drawing here i've got a combo grab my combo take that off grab my reducing y down to a 4x2 take that off go back to my combo and you notice it's filling in between as i go and i can actually cover ground pretty quickly here and take off this entire main run with all the piping fittings and the excavation accounted for um with uh with very quickly they're going from fitting to fitting okay and so this is a form of takeoff um that is also very easy to get uh by your second or maybe third training you should be pretty proficient in this feature as well and then there's one other level one other grade you could get to in quote soft that is going to be even faster and so i'm going to start with this two-way clean out but then on my next fitting what i have is i have my common fittings set to keys on my keyboard so you can't see my left hand here but my right hand is on the mouse so my left hand is on the left side of my keyboard and so i've got various keys for common fitting so if you look in the bottom right hand of your screen right now when i click a you're going to see a quarter bend when i click s you're going to see a uh an eighth bend z would be a combo c would be a y z is a reducing combo v is a reducing y and these are just these are just the ways i've chosen to have these set up they could be any key on your keyboard but the idea is you get the uh the common fittings the the five six maybe seven common fittings that you're taking off all the time when you're taking off a sanitary system and you set them to keys on your keyboard and so in this case i'm going to hit c and go to my y i've got another y here so i just click that down z is my combo go v for my reducing y down to four by two z back to my combo and you notice it i can actually go even a little bit faster than i can talk about it it's a very fast form of takeoff and allows me to get that that down and then coming off of branches here i've got a button for pipe i've got a button for a 45 and i can get just about this entire takeoff done with my quick keys and notice i never had to go back down to my pallet below i never had to look at the uh the hover text to see what fitting it was or take my cursor from up here all the way down here i'm just simply using keys on my keyboard but i'm getting exactly the right fitting i should get in each one of these circumstances and and and i know that i'm getting the right fitting because i'm i'm selecting it and placing it on the screen for the assemblies here we've got some water closet assemblies and so again i can go down to my assembly palette here i can sort by w i've got water closets here and again i've got this kind of in a small screen here but this works pretty pretty well for for what i'm doing um but you know of course you could have multiple screen setups here i'm trying to get this on one screen to make the video easier but i had do have two monitors you could have three or four or however many monitors and you can have these pallets in different locations so they're not bunched up and and so i'm going to select this assembly it shows me the picture and the bill of materials for each one of those and i can just simply take one of those off at each section here and then of course if i need to take off this four inch pipe i can just hit my pipe button and easily just take this off right and so that's going to account for now you notice like for example in the drawing this is not vented but if i look at my assembly my assembly does include a four by two reducing y it does include some two inch fittings and two inch pipe and so i know i have my vent covered from an estimated point of view so that's a brief overview how to use this for sanitary as you can probably imagine i could take off this whole drawing in just a matter of a few minutes but i want to move on to the next system here we're going to move on to this domestic water system so i'm going to hit new zone change to my domestic water so i'm going to change my sanitary below grade to my domestic water i will just do sweat copper now the zone is still west wing the drawing is still p1 but the floor now instead of being underground it's going to be first floor so i'm going to type that in hit ok and now it switched my system over so i can still see the sanitary took off before but now if i want to take off this cold water line here you notice i have a different set of sizes available that's because it's driven by the spec but when i hit 2 inch my 90 is always in that same place and my a key on my keyboard is going to give me a 90 even though the 90 is a copper 90 that a key is programmed so that regardless of what system you're in you're going to get your 90 degree turn and and it's going to determine what item that will be based on the spec itself so it really makes the takeoff very congruent from system to system so i'm going to take off that 90. i do have a butterfly valve here so i'm going to grab that switch back to my 90. i've got a check valve here a couple gate valves you know and i could put these in and i could have a key for those valves as well i just don't happen to have one set up reducing t that goes down to one inch there and then a reducing t down to two inch and this is where we're going to actually change size and head over to our hot water heater and so i'm going to switch that to two grab my ball valve which i do have a key for grab a straight t here a 90 and then up to my 90 down to my hot water heater now coming off of this hot water heater first i can grab the hot water heater assembly so i can go down to my two inch we'll say without a research pump i've got my picture and bill of materials i can double check i'm getting everything i need and then just simply take that off and then when i'm coming off of my hot water i can switch back to my 90 but now i can hit red there it's very accessible and and now i'm taking off the hot water on the system and uh and cut it's colored appropriately and so you know again it's very simple to use there and and you know it actually does more than just give you a pretty picture on the audit trail itself you notice we keep track of what is in red and what is in blue and so this allows you if you need to go back later and make a change to say the insulation thickness for the hot water or for the cold water um you just simply highlight everything that's in red and then under our global we have toggles for insulation changing hangers changing the size adding material or excuse me adding labor here using what we call a per item factor or multiples area system phase tag all those kinds of things you can make changes to the items very easily after the fact in our audit trail there and so that was just a very brief um overview of our takeoff here and and so i hope to get a chance to show you a full demo of our program um and that takes about 45 minutes to an hour and so please just check us out at quotesoft.com and go to your state or province or country and uh and contact the rep for that area i appreciate your time thank you