SketchDeck now lets you click and drag a revised drawing back into alignment with the original. When engineers shift the drawing position between revisions, the fix takes seconds.
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Upload a revised drawing set and SketchDeck compares it against your finished takeoff. Every member gets marked as changed, added, or removed, with a hover summary showing exactly what moved on each one. Here is the full walkthrough plus the audit trail you can hand to your GC.
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The Quantities Panel is where all your member data lives during a takeoff. By default it shows what SketchDeck detects automatically, but you can add custom fields, set defaults to skip repetitive entry, build dropdowns for consistent data, and apply automations that fill values based on rules. Here is the full walkthrough.
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Revisions have been the number-one request from our customers for over a year. Today, we're shipping the feature that addresses them.
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Most teams know SketchDeck for automating member takeoffs, but that is just the starting point. Weights, copes, holes, moment connections, framing codes, and custom labor codes all populate automatically too. Here is the walkthrough of where the hours actually disappear after the initial count is done.
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More accurate AI detection. New schedule support. Less manual cleanup. Here’s what’s changed inside SketchDeck, and what it means for your next bid. If you’re already using SketchDeck to power your steel takeoffs, you’ve probably noticed things getting a little smoother lately. That’s not by accident.
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SketchDeck's machine learning engine that learns from every messy structural drawing to deliver faster, more accurate steel estimates over time.
Read storyDiscover how SketchDeck, our AI-powered steel estimating software, automates takeoffs, connection analysis, and exports to other steel estimating tools like Tekla PowerFab and Bluebeam. Go from PDF to takeoff in minutes with greater speed and accuracy..
Read storyA look at the SketchDeck features shipped in Q2 2024: automated connection codes, a pop-out quantities panel, copy, paste and undo, and preset multi-page scaling.
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