Click the link below to access the One Sheet Takeoff Video - It goes through the entire process of doing a Takeoff from a Single Sheet PDF page. It also shows several ways of tackling the Takeoff and all of the steps needed including
- Importing, placing and scaling the PDF Sheet
- Extracting Vectors automatically
- Extracting vectors manually
- Tracing vectors using Takeoff lines
- What / When to Vectorize vs What / When to Digitize
- The order of digitizing
- How to digitize buildings with adjacent sidewalks
- How to digitize retaining walls
- How to use Crop Crossing to remove unwanted contour sections
- How to elevate linework
- How to create layers and categorize them for takeoff
- How to create materials and site improvements in the MSI Manager
- How to apply site improvements to finished grade surface
- How to create overexcavation around a building pad
- How to create and label cut fill maps and create a cut fill drawing
- How to create a site improvement map and legend
- How to apply Topsoil Strip and Topsoil Replacement
- How to build takeoff surfaces
- How to run and read a Takeoff Report
Hopefully this will help any user starting out with Takeoff processes.
Video 0 - PDF Import and Place
Video 1 - Views and View Filters
Video 2 - DIgizing Linework
Video 3 - Building a Test Surface
Video 4 - Takeoff Processes
Video 5 - Vectorizing / Extracting Vectors from PDF
Please also check out the PDF Vectors on demand command at this link - Click Here
Click Here for the Video
PDF File Used for the Takeoff
GRADING PLAN 121019.pdf (1.6 MB)
Example Completed Project
ASM Test Job v2.zip (24.1 MB)