What should i know about your takeoff software does not know a w10x33 beam from
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Most tools match text. They see W10x33 and W12x40 as the same string pattern, so you open the steel manual and do it by hand. BidLight reads the geometry and th
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<p>Most tools match text. They see W10x33 and W12x40 as the same string pattern, so you open the steel manual and do it by hand. BidLight reads the geometry and the metadata inside your Revit and Navisworks models, so a W10x33 and a W12x40 are different line items, sized and priced as what they actually are.</p>
<p>Two AI models classify your BOQ line items at 86% accuracy. Pricing pulls from a roughly $30,000 database plus Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans, so the number on the page is current, not last year's.</p>
<p>The part you feel: estimates come in minutes instead of days. You export the model, get labor, equipment, material, and time costs, and the number updates in real time when the design changes. No re-doing the takeoff because someone moved a beam.</p>
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