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Detailed Features
CostX
has been developed with industry
leaders to provide the most
efficient package for today's
quantity surveying and estimating
professionals. CostX features
include:
General
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Provides a simple interface for
the extraction of dimensions
from CAD files.
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Can
be tied with a costing library
to provide instant budget or
valuation of buildings.
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Portable licensing using small
convenient USB tokens.
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Simple but powerful scope
management capabilities for CAD
drawings and cost plans.
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Ability to work on building
projects separately and merge
the work into one building
project.
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Dimensioning
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Supports existing standard
drawing formats (AutoCAD DWG,
DXF and DWF).
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Supports electronic dimension
extraction from paper drawings
using scanning technology.
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Ability to add views and import
dimension information from an
Autodesk Revit drawing.
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Full
measurement capability including
area, length and count modes.
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Dimensions can be broken down
into zones (representing
functional areas/levels/units
etc. or stages of construction).
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Fully supports scaled drawings
(including separate X and Y
scales) and allows calibration
of scanned drawings.
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Ability to add measurements
during session.
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Quick and easy measurements of
reinforced steel using
measurements from standard
reinforced steel drawings.
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Export of measurements to
Microsoft Excel.
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Overlay comparisons between two
drawings in a building (eg.
electrical and lighting
drawings).
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Revisioning system for drawings.
CostX makes it really easy to
handle new revisions of
drawings, maintaining the
captured dimensions where they
still exist and providing
reports on changes between
drawings - what is the same,
what has changed, what is no
longer on the drawing.
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Tied
in with the revisioning
capability of drawings, drawing
comparison mode graphically
shows the changes between the
drawing revisions.
Costing
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Automatic cost plan generation
from dimension information.
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Full
data import capability from
systems such as Buildsoft's
Global Estimating System.
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Ability to 'tweak' cost plan
elements, rates, quantities etc.
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Backwards linking and display.
(For a quantity in a workbook
cell, the option exists to
display the referenced dimension
on the drawing).
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Free
form hierarchical spreadsheet
capability (workbooks).
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Full
workbook templates capability
with live links to dimension
groups and rate libraries.
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Rate
libraries and price lists can be
manually entered or imported.
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Standard reports such as
Elemental Summery, Bill of
Quantities, and Trade Breakup
amongst others can be created
for cost plans.
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Export of costing information to
Excel.
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Enhanced revisioning system for
workbooks including ability to
create a new workbook based on
the previous revision.
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Rates can be broken down using a
spreadsheet per rate which can
link back to other rate
libraries/price lists. This
means you can setup the way a
rate is derived using full
functionality and power of a
spreadsheet, and then have the
rates automatically updated when
the price lists are updated.
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Fully customizable reports.
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Ability to do a workbook reorder
(sort) based on code. For
example, convert from Elemental
to Trade etc.
Downloads
The
following
files are
available
for
download.
Click on the
links to
open in a
new web
browser
window, or
right-click
and select 'Save
Target As...'
to download
to your PC.
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