An estimating library, PDF plan take-off, and full dim workings. Built into the Excel task pane — no exports, no context switching.
Start 30-day free trial See it in action →Five core tools that live inside your spreadsheet — no switching windows, no stitching files together.
Ships with a 5,806-item NRM/SMM catalogue — masonry, concrete, structural, and more — organised as a searchable tree. Or build your own library from scratch: your trades, your rates, your wording. Double-click any item and it drops into the active cell with its unit, description, and formatting intact.
Open any drawing, set the scale once, then measure with Line, Area, Polyline, Count and Offset tools. Build your own Plan, Elevation, Wall Type and Feature tools — organise them into folders, or spin one up on the fly with the auto tool renamer: click any text on the PDF and a tool is created in seconds.
Every take-off rolls into a real dim sheet — times-in, A × B × C, totals, notes. Handle deductions for openings and voids, round up, apply centres. Save the total to the active cell or queue a list and insert them in order.
Every line, wall and opening you take off appears in a live 3D model. Spin the plan, catch the wall you missed, and see deductions for openings and voids rendered in context — not just as numbers on a page.
Right-click any cell to insert a BQ unit — m², m³, lin m, nr, item, sum, prov sum, % — or open the dim editor. No context switching. Your spreadsheet stays your spreadsheet.
The pieces that keep it practical.
Libraries, measurements and tool kits sync across your machines.
Activate on your desktop and laptop with a single key.
Excel on Windows, Mac, Web and iPad. Same file, same workflow.
Libraries export to XLSX; measurements export to a worksheet. No lock-in.
Add BQ Wizard to Excel in a couple of clicks — no separate download.
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Take off from PDFs, insert items into cells, export workings back to Excel.
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