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Cons: I really want an Excel output report in simple spreadsheet format. Example of what I want:Plan Sheet Color Data 1 Sf VolumeFloorplan Red Building Material One 100 600Floorplan Blue Building Material One 200 800Elevations Yellow Building Material One 250 900Elevations Blue Building Material One 50 180Shown below is the way Active T reports look now.
I have to manually create new columns in Excel to show Color and Plan Sheet info IN EACH ROW. So I can sort my report by the heading of ANY COLUMN at will.FLOORPLANColor RedBuilding Material One 100 600Color BlueBuilding Material One 200 800ELEVATIONSColor YellowBuilding Material One 250 900Color BlueBuilding Material One 50 180This is just one example of the current reports using extraneous rows to deliver information.
Please give me one reporting option that has NO rows containing anything that is not pure data, with the sole exception of the headings to each column, which should be located in the first row. Things that are now titles to separate sections in the report should be converted to a column, and the title should be reported on each row. Like the Plan Sheet and Color info is showing in my example report. Please and Thank You! Overall: Good experience so far. I did have to call once to learn a bit more about some updated features. I was pleased to find that help was readily available and they where willing to train me on some new items over the phone.
However, it is a Canadian based company and the lovely man that was assisting me (I believe one of the founders actually) is French Canadian and it was terribly hard to understand him over the phone. He was so nice and willing to help teach me how to use the product correctly. Even with him taking control of the computer to show how to do everything though, the language barrier made retaining the info difficult. Other than that, I love the product despite needing to grow a bit.
Even though I do not use all of its features, its lower price and time saving's make it worth it for me. Pros: Very affordable compared to similar software.
I love that is allows me to color code plans. As a GC, the subcontractors love it when I have a color coded plan for them. This program eliminates my frantic searching for take-off calculation pages and makes it easier to pick up where I left off when changes are made. No more adding strings upon strings of dimensions! Plans allways say 'Do not scale' when given to us to Bid, not sure how they expect us to price accurately when that is the case, but the scale configuration is perfect when you are not given an actual scale and still just need to get the job done. Cons: As a software, It is getting there. There are still some kinks, and usability is not the greatest.
It is not a software for someone who is computer illiterate. The estimating and take-offs in particular could use some tweaking. I never use it to generate full estimates because it is missing a lot of what would be needed for a G.C.
(Perhaps for an individual trade would be more beneficial). What my money goes into it for is the quantity take-offs. The setting materials is a bit cumbersome and confusing but you can make it work, albeit sometimes incorrectly.
But hey, there are many ways to skin a cat! Overall: Prior to using this software I was scaling and taking measures by hand which was extremely time consuming for me and difficult to get perfectly accurate. I tried other similar products but found them no good and so complicated it was not worth bothering.
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I then trialed this software and was amazed at how easy it was to use. Drawings that would have taken 2 to 3 days to measure by hand can now be measured quickly in minutes or hours which means I can provide quotations to clients much faster and more accurately. After the trial period came to an end purchasing the product was a no brainer. It has paid for itself after just one week of use. Pros: We are a QS firm based in Western Australia. We have used pretty much all takeoff tools that are out there.
Active Takeoff offers a clean measuring tool that leaves definable markups with a legend on each page that clearly indicates what is what. There are tools for amending the item of measure and most importantly the back-up service is excellent.
Queries are answered in a language that we can understand and replies to queries come back in a timely manner. This, above anything else, is vital to us. Pros: Every time that we have needed support the Active Takeoff support team has been there to answer our questions with a live technician. It sure feels good to know that there is still support out there without having to be on hold forever. They are working to make there product even more user friendly; I did not grow up using a computer, am old school, paper, pencil, eraser, calculator and arch.
Ruler, what it took days to do now takes hours. Thank you Active Takeoff, looking forward to your continual updates.
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