Rant: Finally tried digital takeoffs after years of paper and ruler

Ive been drafting for 25 years and always swore by my scale ruler and printed plans. Last month a client in Phoenix sent me a set of PDFs that were so mangled I spent 2 hours just trying to get a clean count on the rebar. I downloaded a free trial of a takeoff program and it did the same job in 12 minutes flat. Anybody else hold out on digital tools and regret the time you wasted?

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black.amy16d ago

Have you noticed Lee that the program can't read notes the way we do, @lee_bailey65?

lee_bailey6516d ago

The thing nobody talks about is how much of your memory you offload to that software. I've been at this long enough that I can spot a rebar schedule error from across the room just by feel, but now I'm second guessing myself because the program says different. Kinda messes with your instincts a little.