USG Ceilings

For more than 110 years, USG has been a leader in producing innovative products and systems that not only bring visions to life, but also enhance and inspire those visions while reducing the building industry’s impact on the environment. USG Ceiling Solutions offers an extensive line of products and systems, and all USG Ceiling products are built to provide design freedom, easy installation and outstanding performance. With the help of USG, On Center Software is now able to provide thousands of USG ceiling materials within its database along with several popular USG Ceiling Assemblies into the latest version of Quick Bid.

Download

There are a few options available, from downloading the entire usg database, to just those Condition Assemblies you need, based on usg's product lines. You are welcome to download whatever makes sense for your estimating needs.

Entire USG Ceilings Database

To download the entire USG Ceilings database for use with Quick Bid, click the button below. The database includes all Condition Assemblies and Items available from usg at the time this database was created.

Download USG Ceilings Database

(If that button is blocked or does not work in your browser, copy and paste the following URL into your browser's URL field: https://downloads.oncenter.com/Downloads/partner_downloads/usg/2022/US-QB-USG-2022.zip )

You may be prompted to save the ZIP file someplace or your browser may be set to save downloaded files automatically. Either way, save the downloaded ZIP file someplace where you can find it easily - your "Downloads" folder is the easiest place.

After downloading, the next step is to install and open this database.

Individual USG Ceilings Condition Assemblies Packs

You can also download specific sets of Condition Assemblies, if you don't need the entire database. The links below allow you to download a "qba" file that you can double-click to import the Assemblies into the current database.

You may be prompted to save the *.qba file someplace or your browser may be set to save downloaded files automatically. Either way, save the downloaded file someplace where you can find it easily - your "Downloads" folder is the easiest place.

• USG_DXDXL_2_X_2_SLT_Edge
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_2_SLT_Edge_Category_C
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_2_SLT_Edge_Category_D
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_2_SQ_Edge
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_2_SQ_Edge_Category_C
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_2_SQ_Edge_Category_D
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_4_SLT_Edge
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_4_SQ_Edge
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_4_SQ_Edge_Category_C
• USG_DXDXL_2_X_4_SQ_Edge_Category_D

Installing

Extract the USG Ceilings Database

After you download the ZIP file,

• Double-click it to peek inside the zip archive.

• Right-click on the file named "US-QB-USG-2022.mdb"

• Click Copy
• Navigate to wherever you store your Quick Bid databases (by default, Quick Bid databases are stored in "C:\OCS Documents\Quick Bid")
• Right-click in blank space within the folder
• Click Paste to copy the mdb file into your "databases" folder

Opening the USG Ceilings Database

We assume you have already installed and licensed Quick Bid, if not, see Related Articles.

• Open Quick Bid,
• Click the Open icon, on the Main toolbar, or
• Click File > Open, or
• Right-click anywhere in the Bids Tab and select Open - the Open Databases dialog box opens:

• Place a checkmark in the "Open" box next to the database named "US-QB-USG-2022"
• Click OK to close the dialog box and open your database

You may be prompted to update the database to work with your version of Quick Bid, click Yes and follow the additional prompts to update the database.

The new database is shown in your Bid Navigator...

Using the USG Ceilings Database

You can start bidding in this new USG Ceilings database, but we do not recommend that. This database does not have your Master information in it - such as Payroll Settings, Payroll Classes, Markups settings, etc. So, we recommend that you create a new database and synchronize the USG Ceilings database into that new database, first, then synchronize your existing Quick Bid database into the new database - this updates the database Masters to match whatever you have in your existing, working database.

For information on Synchronizing databases, see Database Maintenance - Synchronizing Databases.

Projects/Bids are not copied during synchronization - you'll do that separately after synchronizing - see Copying and Pasting Bids from One Database to Another.

After synchronizing, you need to check a few other things:

• Default Markups and Indirect Expenses - under Tools > Default Markups and Indirect Expenses, you need to configure your new database to match your existing database - these settings copy over when synchronizing database, however, it is best to err on the side of caution before you start bidding.
• Payroll Settings - You also must make sure your Payroll Settings (Tools > Payroll Settings) are configured correctly. Again, Payroll Settings are copied from the "Source" database during synchronization.

Individual Assembly Packs

After you have downloaded (saved) the Assemblies Pack(s) you want to add to your Quick Bid database, just follow the steps below:

• Open Quick Bid, (again, we're assuming you have Quick Bid installed and licensed, if not, see Related Articles)
• Select the database into which you want to import (install) the Assembly pack(s) (make sure it is the selected/active database (it is important that you select the database into which you want to import the Assemblies - they are imported into the "current" or "active" database)
• Locate the qba file(s) you previously downloaded
• Double-click that zip file to extract the QBA file inside
• Double-click that QBA file - the Assembly pack should import into the active database automatically

In Quick Bid,

• Click File > Import
• Select "Quick Bid Assembly File (*.qba) and click OK

• Browse to where you saved the QBA file(s)
• Select the Assembly Pack you want to import
• Click Open