Piping MTO from your ISO drawings

Every row traces back to the drawing

Click a line in the takeoff and the matching BOM row lights up on the ISO. That is how you check it, and it is how you answer the question when somebody asks where a number came from.

Rows that need a second look get a review flag, like a support with no size or a part count that is not a whole number. Click the flag and TakeOffTrak takes you to the item on the drawing.

What it reads

• The BOM table on each ISO: item number, description, commodity code, size, quantity, and unit.
• Reducing items with both sizes, like a 6 x 2 reducer or olet.
• Shop and field sections where the BOM prints them.
• The title block: drawing number, sheet, revision, line number, and spec.
• Vector PDFs and scanned ISOs. Scanned BOMs are read from the image.

Upload a multi-page PDF and each page becomes its own drawing. You can also upload a line list, and TakeOffTrak links each drawing to its line by line number or drawing number.

What lands in Excel

The Materials export puts every row on one sheet, with the drawing number on each row and a total at the bottom. Export shop materials, field materials, or both.

Drop it into a pivot table to roll the job up by item, size, and spec. Every total still traces back to a drawing.

The Drawing Register export lists every drawing on the job with its title block values next to its line list values. Use it to check the drawing count and revisions against the transmittal.

No drawing gets lost

Export waits until every drawing has finished processing and has a drawing number. A drawing without an identity cannot slip out of the MTO without anyone noticing.