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Compare On-Screen Takeoff (OST) and PlanViewer (PV)

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Questions

Why upgrade to On-Screen Takeoff Professional?
What are the differences between OST-PlanViewer and On-Screen Takeoff Professional?

Discussion

By upgrading to On-Screen Takeoff Professional, estimators, project managers, and foreman gain access to features designed to improve takeoff speed, retain and organize data, and share projects and data between the office and field.

Feature Comparison

Capability/Feature	PlanViewer	On-Screen Takeoff Professional®
Takeoff and Measurements
Use Takeoff Boost™ to automate some takeoff (requires separate BOOST license and an active maintenance subscription))		✓
Use AutoNaming to assign Sheet Name and Sheet Number to your plans (requires an active maintenance subscription)		✓
Measure Linears, Areas, and Counts	✓	✓
Generate multiple quantities based on measurements		✓
Save takeoff quantities		✓
View Legend of Condition Quantities per Page		✓
Price Material and Labor		✓
Creates Alternates and Change Orders	✓	✓
Create and Save Conditions		✓
Assign Takeoff to Layers and Areas		✓
Toggle Existing Layers on and off	✓	✓
Create new Custom Layers		✓
Use Typical Takeoff to speed up takeoff process		✓
Use Zones to breakout takeoff quantities		✓
Duplicate and Reassign Takeoff to Different Conditions		✓
Use Intelligent Paste to speed up takeoff process		✓
Takeoff multiple Condition at the same time		✓
Copy and Paste Area Backouts		✓
Digitizer Support	✓	✓
Plan Organization
Download plans from supported Planrooms	✓	✓
View plans in color	✓	✓
View raster images (tiff, cal)	✓	✓
View vector and CAD images (PDF, dwg)	✓	✓
View photo images (jpg)	✓	✓
Compare Revisions using Overlay feature		✓
Annotation Tools
Use Project Comments to collaborate between users and create/manage punch items (requires an active maintenance subscription)		✓
Add text to the drawing	✓	✓
Using electronic ink to markup drawing		✓
Highlighter tool	✓	✓
Create Hot Links and Named Views		✓
Turn Image Legend on and off	✓	✓
Ungroup, move, or edit the Image Legend		✓
Collaboration
Allow employees within Organization to see each other's work		✓
Share Bids with other users via Project Express		✓
Export Bid to sharable file		✓
Export Bid to Quick Bid		✓
Export Takeoff Quantities to Excel or CSV		✓
Export Priced Condition Quantities to Excel or CSV		✓
Link Condition Quantities direct to Excel		✓
Interactively work with Quick Bid		✓
Store work 'in the cloud' for access anywhere		✓*
Share bids between home office and field		✓
Manage Project in Digital Production Control (DPC)		✓

*You can store a backup of your database in any Cloud storage service such as OneDrive or GoogleDrive and then restore that on a different computer.

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