Named Views and Hot Links are used together to provide an easy way to navigate to detail Pages in your bid. They act as shortcuts of a sort to allow you to jump to details, sections, or elevations easily and quickly. A Named View is a defined location on…

Annotations are markup objects such as highlights, arrows, lines, clouding, and text you add to your Pages that are not takeoff (not measuring building objects). Annotations also include Hot Links and Named Views which are ways of setting up "shortcuts" in…

The Annotations Toolbar is on the left side of the Takeoff Window. Here's a closer look at the toolbar... Annotations are separate from Takeoff objects. They are often called "Markups" because they are simply marking-up the plan for reference purposes only.…

A Dimension Line is just what it sounds like: a line that indicates distance between two points. There are two types of Dimension Lines: Annotations that you draw using the Dimension Line Tool, Auto-Dimension Lines that the program adds to your Plans between…

Textbox annotation allows you to place a visual note right on your plans, visible to anyone accessing the bid. For example, we want to call attention to something on the Plan (explaining why we took off something a certain way, for example). We add a Textbox,…

The Highlighter Tool it is used to place a colorful highlight on your plans - usually to draw emphasis to something but if you select a White highlight, it can even be used to block out part of your plan/plan. Drawing Highlighter Annotation Click the button…

Ink Annotation (not quite the same as ink-shaped Highlighting, discussed in previous article) is useful if you are using a tablet or touch-screen monitor that supports active-digitizing. Ink allows you to draw completely freehand on your plans, including…

There are several Stamp annotations available. Select the stamp you want to use by clicking the expand triangle at the bottom-right of the button. There are four main categories of stamps: Accepted, Rejected, Information, and Signature. Accepted (Green Family)…

Architects use "clouding" to highlight changes between Revisions or Issues of a Plan. You can use the Cloud Annotation Tool when you want to call-out something on a Page for field personnel or another estimator to review. Drawing Cloud Annotation Click the…

You can use the Arrows Annotation Tool to draw an arrow to point out something on your plan. Drawing Arrow Annotation Click the button on the Annotation Toolbar You can set the Line Thickness and Color by clicking the expand triangle on the side of the Arrow…