Take-Offs Criteria

Summary

This application view allows you to set up the available categories, and the take-offs criteria to measure BIM element by drag&droping them into a budget rule

Description

Take-offs criteria application view in floating state

The control shows a header (1) with several buttons followed by all the BIM categories ready to measure by drag&drop:

Command	Icon	Action
Search box		Allows for quick filtering of content, useful when there are plenty of categories defined
Add/Duplicate		Adds a new category or duplicates the selected one (if any)
Remove		Removes the selected category (disabled when none)
Clear		Deletes all categories
Import		Loads categories defined in any selected file, asking to override or skip if any match against existing
Export		Saves categories to a file for later use

Each category, when selected, expands to show the available units that the BIM elements can be measured onto:

• The combo box (2) on the left of each header allows for changing the category
• On the right of the header, there are buttons (3) to add, remove and clear available units for that BIM category

Be aware that there cannot be duplicated categories

Notice that there cannot exist duplicated unit inside a category

Each unit inside a BIM category is to be defined by using these columns:

Column	Required	Description
Unit	Yes	The unit of the budget item
a	No	A expression containing any BIM parameters, constants, math operators and functions
b	No	A expression containing any BIM parameters, constants, math operators and functions
c	No	A expression containing any BIM parameters, constants, math operators and functions
Openings	No	Indicates whether openings should be discount on take-offs

Context Menu

Command	Icon	Action
Add		Adds a new category
Duplicate		Duplicates the selected category (disabled if none)
Remove		Removes the selected category (disabled if none)
Clear		Deletes all categories
Import		Loads categories defined in any selected file, asking to override or skip if any match against existing
Export		Saves categories to a file for later use