Estimating Software

Estimating
Whatever your estimating demands, Sage Timberline provides complete software that works the way you want it to. For a fast, accurate estimating system that’s easy to use, choose between Estimating Standard and Estimating Extended. Estimating Standard combines key estimating efficiencies with all the ease and intuitive point-and-click, drag-and-drop technology available. The software also serves as the foundation of our more advanced Estimating Extended. Estimating Extended offers you our most comprehensive package of advanced estimating tools. The software starts with the power of Estimating Standard and adds even greater takeoff, analysis and productivity capabilities.

Estimating Explorer
Our Estimating Explorer software gives you the tools to organize, manage and analyze hundreds of estimates with ease. No more tracking down bids through bid journals or estimate archive logs. Instead, you can sort Explorer’s comprehensive master list of estimates by name, status, estimator or other criteria to find any estimate within seconds. Even manage your bid schedules using the software’s built-in calendar to log important events, such as bid dates, pre-bid meetings, and site inspections. Estimating Explorer not only organizes your estimates, but gives you the tools to stand back and analyze your work. Need to know what your estimating volume is in certain markets? Or how your unit costs vary by project type? Use Estimating Explorer’s management reports and graphs to quickly find the answers. Or link estimate information directly to Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access for further analysis.

Database Editor
Sage Timberline’s Database Editor provides a set of Windows®-based tools for streamlined setup and easy maintenance of the estimating databases you use with Sage Timberline estimating software. Quickly add records and update fields in multiple records all at once. Global changes are immediately visible in a spreadsheet-style view. And database Editor ensures referential integrity of records throughout your database.

CAD Integrator
Sage Timberline’s CAD Integrator speeds the estimating process by utilizing a standardized language to define CAD objects and their associated objects. Sage Timberline draws on the common information format of Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs), used to standardize CAD objects such as doors, windows, walls or HVAC ductwork. Because the objects are universal, an IFC door is always recognized as a door, regardless of which CAD software you’re using.

Digitizer
Digitizer lets you quickly and accurately generate linear, area, and counted takeoff in seconds. It’s the application to automate your entire digitizing process and reduce all your manual spreadsheet and paper calculations. Much of the timesaving benefits of Digitizer reside in its estimator-friendly dimension list. Rather than having to jot down digitized dimensions on a separate piece of paper or run manual calculations with an outside spreadsheet program, you can use Sage Timberline to automatically set up a customized dimension list. The dimension list stores all your regularly used dimensions that you can call on to complete an existing estimate or save for use with future estimates on similar jobs. You build your dimension list only once, not every time you start a new estimate.

ePlan Takeoff
Connecting Sage Timberline’s estimating software with On Center’s On-Screen Takeoff™ application, Sage Timberline ePlan Takeoff lets you generate counts and quantity takeoffs directly from electronic drawings for instant use in your estimates. ePlan Takeoff gives you the ability to quickly transfer project dimensions including lengths, areas, and volumes. It streamlines takeoff, provides a takeoff audit trail, and lets you create accurate estimates without ever needing to pore over bulky blueprints.

Estimating Report Manager
Estimating Report Manager simplifies the task of reporting on estimates that you produce with your Sage Timberline estimating software. For extensive analysis and reporting, you can easily export estimate data into a reportable file to use with Crystal Reports® or Microsoft® Access. Select any estimate for reporting, combine estimate items, round item quantities, allocate add-ons, and more. The software provides sample Crystal Report designs, including proposal templates and cross-tab reports, for professional-looking presentations of estimate information. It’s a simple way to organize and manage all estimating reports in one central location.

Estimating Viewer
Estimating Viewer makes it possible for anyone connected to your network to view and print Sage Timberline estimates. In addition, users have access to all the advanced sorting and reporting capabilities previously only available to estimators using Sage Timberline’s estimating software. So, at any time, someone can quickly see where costs and quantities have varied between two similar projects. Or zero in on where unit costs have changed between conceptual, interim, and final estimates. With Estimating Viewer, you have a safe way to share your estimate information, without having to be concerned with edits that could compromise your takeoff, database, or spreadsheets. Your data always remains intact, no matter how many people are reviewing it. And the ability to grant instant, electronic access means you no longer need to spend valuable time circulating estimates from one person to the next.

Model Estimating
Model Estimating lets you create detailed conceptual estimates by answering a series of basic questions about a project. You simply respond to an on-screen survey and let Model Estimating tap into the Sage Timberline’s first-of-a-kind Construction Knowledgebase to produce fast, precise estimates. Backed by exhaustive detail, everything you need to support your bid, concept, or estimate is there in black and white—costs, quantities, crews, hours, and waste factors.

Scheduling Integrator
Project success rides on your team’s ability to plan ahead. So the more time you have to troubleshoot a job, the better. With Scheduling Integrator, you have the tools to start the ball rolling long before construction begins. Quick, realistic project schedules are an estimate away when using the Integrator to connect Sage Timberline’s Estimating to industry-standard scheduling software such as Primavera or Microsoft Project for Windows. Why build a schedule from scratch? Scheduling Integrator gives you instant access to labor and equipment details, material items, productivity factors, and estimator notes. The task plan for building a schedule is practically done for you. Simply open the project file in your scheduling software and you’re well on your way. A great tool to jump-start and simplify the scheduling process, and give your team more time to plan for success.

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