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Measure Quantities and Costs of Your Hard Surfaces

Measure: When Estimating Hard Surface Becomes Easy

One of the most crucial jobs in the Architecture industry is to accurately estimate the "Hard Surfaces!" Due to the stronghold of commercial flooring market, flooring contractors are looking into software technologies to give their businesses a leap. As a resultant, engineers have developed tools to simplify the calculation for hard surface projects. Measure, a floor estimating software by RFMS takes the guesswork out and turns a nightmare hard surface project into a very profitable and simple one.

Benefits of Floor Estimating Software

A commercial flooring estimating software, Measure helps to improve the productivity of organization, allowing estimate accurately quantities for all kinds of projects with complete confidence. Here are few reasons why architects, contractors, commercial and residential flooring businesses should use flooring estimating (Measure) software:

Benefits of Measure to the Architects

Manage complex tile patterns and custom designs
Design any pattern according to your client’s wishes
Show customers photo-realistic 3D renderings
Accurate estimation for tile floors, baths, kitchens, etc.
Alternative bids can be created with different profit margin

Benefits of Measure to the Contractors

Faster estimation and calculation of large projects
Control details of seam placement and pattern alignment
Minimize product waste and optimize carpet seam layout, tile pattern design
Close more deals and winning of more leads

Follow Five Simple Steps, Measure Quantities and Cost of Hard Surfaces

Step 1: Draw the Layout

Draw the floor plan or surface using the mouse or drawing tools
You can import drawings from graphics files (.pdf, .bmp, .tiff, GIF, JPEG, CAD, etc).
You can prepare a take-off from construction prints using a digitizer tablet.

Step 2: Define and Assign Materials

Define project materials or import production information (description, color, sizes, patterns and price). The Tile Editor includes a library of standard tile patterns that are ready-to-use.
Assign material to each part of the hard surface.
You can share standard materials between projects.

Step 3: Add Project Details

Create transitions, stairs, borders and walls.
Define add-on materials and labor to accurately estimate cost.

Step 4: Calculate the Estimate

Seams are automatically created and cuts are placed.
You can add, move or delete seams as needed.
You can move cuts on roll.
There are two types of tile calculation methods – tile count or net area.

Step 5: View Results and Print Reports

Display the Worksheet to see costs by material or room.
The in-built Scene Editor allows you to group elements of a drawing and render it as a 3D views.
You can rotate, pan and zoom the views to examine the proposed design from any angle.
Print seam layout and cut diagrams for installers.

Commercial flooring takeoff software is not a new one. It has existed for more than a decade. It has evolved from DOS-based systems to Windows-based systems with graphical interfaces. Today, you can view the proposed design in 3D view from different angles. With the powerful processor and memory to handle complicated commercial drawings, it has been an easy task to calculate and view the multiple floors at a single point of time.

The standard commercial flooring takeoff software comes incrementally with higher price tags. The price ranges roughly from $3999 to above $5999. Secondly, though it is relatively easy to manage, still there is a learning curve to climb over. Users need little bit of training for quicker estimation and calculation. So, it is wise decision to outsource these time consuming tasks to an architectural outsourcing studio. BluEntCAD, an architectural drafting studio, provides cost effective commercial flooring estimation services to the industry players. We accurately estimate the quantities and cost for any kind of hard surface (tile floors, stairs, boarders, walls, baths, kitchens, etc) much before the real work starts on the ground. Equipped with RFMS’s Measure, we calculate the largest projects overnight without compromising cost and quality. We accept the files in any format ranging from PDF, GIF, JPEG, CAD, .TIFF, .BMP, to Revit.

We assure you 100% accuracy and satisfaction. For pricing & samples, contact us at sales@bluentcad.com

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