Features

Take-offs in 3D!

Why do your takeoff in 3D? When you finish your takeoff, you will have instant visual feedback on your total project. Having the total project to view will enable you to find any possible mistakes that you or one of your estimators might have made! Mistakes are money out of your pocket!

Over the years of estimating, we have all made mistakes: missing walls and sometimes even missing a building from an estimate. Yes, those dumb mistakes have cost the mason contractor many, many dollars. But now, as you can see, having a visual view of your complete take-off almost guarantees you'll never have those costly mistakes again.

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Fast, Accurate, Detailed

Fast: When you use Tradesmen’s “copy last” feature all repetitious entering of information is eliminated. This is just one of the many features that makes Tradesmen’s Master Estimator one of the fastest masonry estimating programs on the market.

Accurate: If you takeoff a modular brick pier, backed up with 8” CMU, that is 2’-0 x 2’-0” x 8’-0” you have exactly 360 mod brick and 24 8” CMU. This pier takeoff shouldn't take you more that 10 seconds to do. Make any size pier in seconds and have exact quantities.

Detailed: They say a picture is worth a 1000 words? This picture is worth thousands and thousands of time-saving dollars to the mason contractor. When you do a takeoff with Tradesmen 3D Master Estimator, you get all these detailed pieces without spending any extra takeoff time! The estimating program can automatically figure all of these pieces and give you a detailed piece count as you do your takeoffs! With 3D Estimator there is never a need to go back and spend thousands of dollars to get this piece count after you are awarded a project. Enter a wall banding, with its elevation, and Tradesmen's 3D Estimator knows exactly what materials to add and deduct for any openings, control joints, jambs or corners. This great feature alone justifies investing in Tradesmen's 3D Master Estimator!

Training

Within 10 minutes of installing the estimating program on the computer, a new user is usually doing actual takeoffs. It's that easy to get started. The estimating program comes with around 450 material items in the database. You don't have to take the time to enter any information before you can get started learning the program. Of course you will be using our labor rates, crews, lay rates, mortar yields, etc., to go through the demonstration walk-through. After going through the two-hour tutorial or walk-through, we have you entering your basic information. If you should have any questions while you are going through the walk-through, you can call our 800-support telephone number for those answers.

Very Useful for Design Build

We have customers using Tradesmen's 3D estimator that are getting jobs awarded to them because their presentations look so professional.

When the mason contractor makes his presentation, the prospective customer might ask what the cost would be to make some possible changes in the design, like Bandings, Pilasters, different bonding, different color material, different color mortar, arch openings, Limestone Jambs, Circular Openings, and Panels. You can instantly give them the cost difference for those changes and you can show them what those changes would look like.

If they don't say it out loud, they'll be thinking, "Boy, I like working with this mason contractor! He really looks like he knows what he's doing."

If you want to enhance your professional image, invest in Tradesmen's 3D Master Estimator.

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