Weekend Warriors in Developer Mode!

I have been working on an estimating plugin! Its still a little rough, but its getting there!

Wow, I knew you would be working on it today! That looks amazing!

Hello All!!!!

Wow, very cool! 🚀🚀

I am currently building a program that will import and export your Template Items. So you will be able to easily edit anything you need to and pull it back in.

This is just Phase 1, We will see where this leads in the end!

Here is what I have been up to. So excited for this feature!!! Link

Awesome to see this! thanks... I can't wait to see the MCP in ZZ and see more of what you and our other users a building... You could never do this isn Stack, they would charge you tens of thousands of dollars and you could not build it in PS...

Weekend Warriors!

What this program is doing is looking at your current loaded template and allowing you to edit items within it, this will also support exporting your full template, updating it in excel or where ever, then bring it back in and it will only update fields that have been changed or added. If the Devs allow it, as you can see below, this can also tap into your custom properties and allow you to export and import. If allowed, I would add Fail safes to not allow anyone over writting the built in custom properties that only the ZZ software uses.

I will put a video together when it's a bit more polished. there's still some things about it that I want to clean up.

anyone still coding???? just me? lol

I am off and on. ,:-)

In developer mode, can we have an ability to duplicate a script, Components, Etc.? after you click duplicate, the name would show up and you could add a new Version to it.

Another thing i would like to see some of VS features added to the code editor. Collapse a code from { to }, and another one I like is Format Document that will line all your code up.

I wish i was smart and could do stuff like this. i got a bunch of things i would love to do in zzTakeOff to avoid the need of excel by like 70%

What is Devmode??

can everyone access it?

I have some developments i'd love to work on!

Hi Thomas,

Dev mode is a new feature currently being tested in our Test server, our most recent post on the "Inside Track" forum lists some of the newest features coming your way.

Give it a read and see what is new... even auto count!

Worked a little bit on creating a plug in to read the pdf plans structure number, Rim & Invert. Perform a linear TO, then in my custom properties under "Location", insert first structure number- second structure number, I can then click the "Populate Runs" tool and it references the "Location" information I entered, finds and auto populates the "Starting Rim", "Starting Invert", "Ending Rim" & "Ending Invert". Basically now I just need to perform a linear takeoff and give it a "Location" and the tool will Populate the elevations.

YES!, nice work bryan!

Question, because I could not figure it out this weekend. Is there a way for a component to read files in the "Script"? In a HTML I can make JS files and reference them in the HTML. Does the Dev Tools work the same way??? Do all files live in the same location or are the files only live when they are activated?

Wow i couldn't believe how easy this was after watching the Video. Will need to fine tune but this was maybe 20min work and first attempt. will try and get this data able to be included in a Pricing report over the next few days when i have a spare minute

Stop it you are making me look bad! Great work glad you are enjoying the dev tools!

@David Q love the vid, that is amazing!

can’t wait to dive into this! I got a bid due and any spare personal time I’m building a 240sf deck that I obviously used Zztakeoff for the design and materials, now building it in real life.. 🎺

Very cool guys! I'm excited to see all the things our users create with the new Dev Tools. 🚀🚀

We're entering a new world for software with Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, etc. We would like to help our users enter that world and have a platform to develop in. There will also be options for scripts and components to ask questions to AI in the future as well.

Will the dev tools be able to sink with a github repository at some point to eliminate the need to copy and paste the code revisions so often?

There is talk a MCP inside of zzTakeoff! I hope that comes some day... no more copy/paste rinse repeat... but It almost sounds too easy.

Is it just my PC or did something happen to the Tool Extensions in dev mode? They are not showing up for me now.

no, they were shown by mistake, and no they took em away until they get the tools and the tool extensions secured..

I was scratching my head also...

Perhaps this is just pretty simple but we just did a script to create a folder structure with a click of a bottom.