ProContractorMX Modules
Digital Takeoff
Maxwell Systems offers digital takeoff technology that allows you to perform a takeoff quickly and accurately right on your monitor and never touch a set of bulky, expensive blueprints.
Easily download digital plan files from an online plan room, scan in your plans, or upload them from a CD-ROM, in many common types including PDF, TIF, GIF, JPG, BMP, and CAD formats.
Once your digital plans are imported, just use your computer mouse or touch screen monitor pen to select the appropriate item for takeoff and count up and measure in square foot or linear foot quantities.
For further time savings, this versatile program lets you flip, rotate, and copy structures, which saves you from having to retrace identical takeoffs. It also lets you customize your cost item libraries or choose from a built-in library of symbols.
And when there are plan revisions, the solution lets you instantly compare your new plans to the older ones. This capability allows you to capitalize on every change order to capture additional gains in profit margin.
In addition, the Shape Recognition feature in ProContractorMX allows estimators to further automate quantity counts using Digital Takeoff. This technology searches a set of plans and annotates like symbols and shapes for fast and accurate quantity counting. The Shape Recognition tool helps estimators eliminate time otherwise spent doing quantity counts by eye and marking by hand. The benefit is improved accuracy and time savings, not only when taking off original plans, but also when plans change.
Using Digital Takeoff, you can:
- Avoid the inconvenience and cost of working with awkward, bulky paper plans.
- Ensure accuracy every time you take off your areas, lengths, and quantities.
- User-friendly and comprehensive capabilities set the software apart and above anything else available.
- Manage entire lifecycle and all components of job electronically for best efficiency.
- Ability to flip, rotate, and copy structures saves you from having to retrace identical takeoffs.
- Customize your cost item libraries or choose from a built-in library of symbols.
- Instantly compare your new plans to the older ones, when there are plan revisions. This capability allows you to capitalize on every change order to capture additional gains in profit margin.
- Attach any file – a document, photo, etc. – that is relevant to the takeoff structure.

