K-000Knowledge base

The whole product, written down.

23 articles across 6 sections, with 52 screenshots of the shipping app. Every one is a walkthrough of something the software actually does — no roadmap, no "coming soon".

K-100Getting started4 articles

Sign in, open a set, set the scale, draw the first measurement.

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Your first takeoff in 10 minutes

Sign in, open a plan, check the scale, draw a measurement. That's the whole loop — everything else in Groundwork Takeoff is a refinement of these four steps.

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Workspace tour: ribbon, panels & status bar

Three zones run the whole app: the ribbon on top, dockable panels on the sides and bottom, and a status bar that's doing more work than it looks like.

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Setting & calibrating scale (per page)

Every quantity in your takeoff is only as good as the scale behind it. Here's how Groundwork Takeoff keeps that honest — one page at a time.

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Opening large plan sets without drowning in them

A 400-page CD set is normal. Estimating from all 400 at once is not — pick your sheets before the document even opens.

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K-200Measuring3 articles

The six measuring tools, editing what you drew, and AI counting.

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The measurement tools

Almost everything on a drawing reduces to one of six measurements. Know which tool answers which question and the takeoff nearly does itself.

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Selecting & editing measurements

Takeoffs change — walls move, scopes shrink, addenda land. Here's how to grab what you drew, fix it fast, and keep undo history clean while you do.

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Counts & AI detection

Counting is the most repetitive work in a takeoff — and the easiest to hand to AI, as long as a human stays in charge of the final number. Here's both halves.

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K-300Estimating3 articles

Assemblies, the materials library, the live grid and exports.

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Assemblies & the materials library

Arm an assembly before you draw, and every measurement comes off the sheet already priced — materials, labor, and waste in one motion.

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One assembly, thirty takeoffs

Folders organize the takeoff tree. Now they also run assemblies — apply once, expand everywhere, undo as one.

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The estimate grid & exporting

The grid prices your takeoff as you draw. Learn to read its hierarchy, pick the columns that matter, apply markup, and hand off a bid-ready file.

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K-400Markup & review5 articles

Clouds, stamps, the markups list, revisions and plan compare.

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Markup tools & the Tool Chest

Everything you need to redline a sheet — and a Tool Chest that remembers what you use so the second placement is one keystroke.

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The markups list: filter, total, jump

Every measurement and markup on the project, in one grid you can slice, total, and jump from — without losing your place on the sheet.

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Comparing plan revisions

A new revision lands and the question is always the same: what changed? Overlay it on your working sheet and let the colors answer.

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The revision arrived. Your takeoff survives.

ASI-04 just landed with three changed sheets. Migrate your measured work onto the new set instead of starting over.

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Revision clouds & the Revision Log

Mark what changed on the sheet, and keep a running record of who changed it, when, and which ASI or RFI made them do it.

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K-500Collaboration & documents6 articles

Roles, MCP, working offline, cloud drives, batch and shortcuts.

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Who can do what — exactly

Four built-in roles cover most teams. When they don't, copy one and edit the permission matrix cell by cell.

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Claude, meet your takeoff

Ask an AI assistant for material totals, or let it generate takeoff items in the document you have open — two connections, both under your control.

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Working together (and offline)

Two estimators on the same sheet, or one estimator in a trailer with no signal — the project stays consistent either way.

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Opening plans from cloud drives

If your plans already live in Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or SharePoint, link them — don't download-and-reupload them.

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Batch operations

Anything worth doing to one sheet is worth doing to eighty sheets while you get coffee.

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Shortcuts & customization

Ten years of muscle memory shouldn't be a switching cost. Make the keyboard yours.

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K-600Account & help2 articles

Plans, seats, devices, and how to get a human to answer.

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Plans, seats & devices

Licensing without the fine-print anxiety: what you're buying, who can use it, and what happens if payment lapses.

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Getting help & reporting problems

Two ways to reach us, and how to write a report that gets fixed on the first reply.

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