Category: Material Take off
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Memo 44 – Formatting Required for MTOs (Checklist for Material Take Offs)
Full check list is available here. Please supply checklist with every take off report you complete. (a) The first: is Koshy’s Material List.xls.rpt (Please use the file here saved here. (click on link)) – see instructions on where to save it below. (b) The second: Excel – Material List – which shows all sub-totals. (c)…
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Tek1 RFI System
Here is a preview on what is cooking in our kitchen. This is one of the feature which have built into the system to save a huge amount of time trying to avoid duplicate file downloads. The principle is simple and the execution beautiful. Saves us a huge amount of time. The entire RFI system…
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Internal Processes
Please find below the processes we expect all staff to follow: Document all instructions in writing. Why? Clients may call on the telephone. Communication may be confused. People say the wrong lengths, the wrong drawing numbers, and they might be working of the wrong revisions, and people hear the wrong things. If you receive instructions…
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ESTIMATION MODELS AND TAKE OFF
Tek1 has developed plug ins with IntelliCAD based systems to create take off models from PDF drawings. The PDF drawings are brought into the intellicad based cad systems. Columns and Beams are modeled over the PDF drawings. This method is significantly faster than undertaking blue beam takeoffs. The accuracy of the take off is much…
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.dwg based Take off with custom Plug ins
Tek1 has developed .dwg based plugins which talk to Tekla to carry out take-off efficiently Take off is completed in .dwg based Cad systems very similar to modeling in Tekla. For BIM model the model is converted to Tekla Reports can be taken either from .dwg system or Tekla. Right now reports are being taken…
