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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. |
| > | Can be tied with a costing library to provide instant budget or valuation of buildings. |
| > | Portable licensing using small convenient USB tokens. |
| > | Simple but powerful scope management capabilities for CAD drawings and cost plans. |
| > | Ability to work on building projects separately and merge the work into one building project. |
Dimensioning |
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| > | Supports existing standard drawing formats (AutoCAD DWG, DXF and DWF). |
| > | Supports electronic dimension extraction from paper drawings using scanning technology. |
| > | Ability to add views and import dimension information from an Autodesk Revit drawing. |
| > | Full measurement capability including area, length and count modes. |
| > | Dimensions can be broken down into zones (representing functional areas/levels/units etc. or stages of construction). |
| > | Fully supports scaled drawings (including separate X and Y scales) and allows calibration of scanned drawings. |
| > | Ability to add measurements during session. |
| > | Quick and easy measurements of reinforced steel using measurements from standard reinforced steel drawings. |
| > | Export of measurements to Microsoft Excel. |
| > | Overlay comparisons between two drawings in a building (eg. electrical and lighting drawings). |
| > | 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. |
| > | 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. |
| > | Full data import capability from systems such as Buildsoft's Global Estimating System. |
| > | Ability to 'tweak' cost plan elements, rates, quantities etc. |
| > | Backwards linking and display. (For a quantity in a workbook cell, the option exists to display the referenced dimension on the drawing). |
| > | Free form hierarchical spreadsheet capability (workbooks). |
| > | Full workbook templates capability with live links to dimension groups and rate libraries. |
| > | Rate libraries and price lists can be manually entered or imported. |
| > | Standard reports such as Elemental Summery, Bill of Quantities, and Trade Breakup amongst others can be created for cost plans. |
| > | Export of costing information to Excel. |
| > | Enhanced revisioning system for workbooks including ability to create a new workbook based on the previous revision. |
| > | 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. |
| > | Fully customizable reports. |
| > | Ability to do a workbook reorder (sort) based on code. For example, convert from Elemental to Trade etc. |
May, 29th 2008
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