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Quantity Takeoff from Digital plans for MS Excel
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New edition available for 64 bit Microsoft Excel
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Now Available Bundled with Adobe Acrobat X
Click for larger image. (Click for larger image.)   BidScreen XL gives you the power to takeoff your electronic plans directly in Microsoft Excel. Electronic plan files supported include pdf (Acrobat recommended), tif, bmp, jpg, pic, dwg, dxf and others. With BidScreen XL, you can zoom and pan the image while you're working in Excel.
 
Takeoffs are a snap, just click on a spreadsheet cell and electronically measure and identify areas, lengths and counts from your electronic drawing files with your mouse. The measurements and digitized takeoff drawings are saved with the Excel cell and can be edited and printed. And, you can apply colors, count symbols, line styles and area fill patterns to your drawings. Sample estimating Excel template files for general contractors, concrete, roofing, painting and other subtrades are also included. BidScreen XL is simple, efficient and no additional hardware is needed. So, go electronic and make your takeoffs easy. Call today and see how BidScreen XL and ePlans work for you.
 
Some of the enhancements added to BidScreen XL Version 6.0 include:
 
  • Operate flawlessly with both 32bit and 64bit MS Excel.
  • New Excel Ribbon User Interface under Excel 2007 and Excel 2010.
  • New Project/Drawing Manager.
    • Clearly display, organize, annotate, highlight and describe drawing files at the drawing level.
    • Override default settings for the current project.
    • Ability to hide, or show, drawings in the drawing list.
    • Provide a description to be used in the drawing list.
    • Replaces thumbnails in Version 5.
  • Create and change takeoff styles with enhanced color settings, area fill patterns, line style/width independence as well as enhanced user defined custom text count feature.
  • Measure accurately when horizontal and vertical scales are different.
  • New takeoff ribbon replaces the old toolbars.
  • Ability to easily delete digitized takeoff information with a single button.
  • New Create Template command easily creates a template from the current workbook.
  • 100% compliance with all PDF files when Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional Versions 7, 8, 9, X and now XI is bundled.
  • Added Windows Themes now available for user display preferences.
  • The default cell comment ("A1" cell) has been replaced with a hidden worksheet page.
    • Open large document files - the limit is in the thousands of pages.
 
 
BidScreen XL currently supports the following file formats:
 
  • PLN
  • DGN
  • DRW
  • PLT
  • HPG
  • DWF
  • DXF
  • DWG
  • PNG
  • CGM
  • JPG, JPEG
  • BMP
  • WMF
  • PNG
 

Vertigraph offers live personal demonstrations over the internet. These software product demos will address your specific questions and needs. Approximate time per demo is fifteen minutes. Schedule an on-line demonstration today to see how BidScreen XL works for you.
 

If you currently have Microsoft Excel 2003 or newer, Download a working copy of BidScreen XL and test drive its ease of use. After downloading and installing, please view the BidScreen XL help file for instructions on use.

 
BidScreen XL (32 bit) System Requirements
BidScreen XL (64 bit) System Requirements
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BidScreen XL Now Available Bundled with Adobe Acrobat X
BidScreen XL is now available bundled with Adobe Acrobat Version X Standard at special discounted pricing. BidScreen XL with Adobe Acrobat will now access all versions of PDF files with clarity and without regard to their origination. Estimators and Quantity Surveyors can conveniently work in Microsoft Excel with the native PDF file without performing time consuming and error prone file conversions. Bundling Vertigraph's BidScreen XL software with Adobe Acrobat Version X provides the construction professional with the complete solution.
 
 
 
BidScreen XL Version 6.0 for 64 bit Microsoft Excel
A new edition of BidScreen XL Version 6.0 is now available. This edition is designed to work with 64 bit Excel 2010. System requirements for this edition can be found here. A link to this edition can be reached from the downloads page. To determine if Excel 2010 is 32 bit or 64 bit, follow these instructions.
 
 
 
Acrobat Recommended
The PDF file format is not fixed. It has evolved over time and is still evolving. Adobe frequently changes the specification. Other document creation software can produce images readable by Acrobat, but not by the PDF read software native to BidScreen XL.
 
To insure compatibility, Vertigraph has incorporated the ability to use Adobe Acrobat to read PDF documents into BidScreen XL. Vertigraph highly recommends the use of Adobe Acrobat, version 7 or later, when using PDF documents.
 
The free Acrobat Reader does not provide the capability required by BidScreen XL. This is only available in the Standard or Professional versions.
 
Vertigraph does not claim the ability to read all PDF documents if Adobe Acrobat is not used.
 
 
The following BidScreen XL documents are available for download:
Vertigraph recommends the following software for use with BidScreen XL:

 

 
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