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Subject: Text rotated +90° is missing from the sheet text layer
6d 13h
Hey Greg! The search automatically combines PDF-embedded text (if it exists) and OCR'd text. All pages are OCR'd, but we have had some cases where it struggles with rotated text, which could be o...
Unable to Drag & Drop Pages
6d 14h
Hey Josh, what type of device are you using? (iPad, Windows Surface, etc.) We have had trouble in the past where some devices say the user is trying to select with their finger/pen instead of a m...
Takeoff Legend - Ability to Organize by Folder
6d 18h
Hey Tim, thanks for the feature request! I’ll pass it along to the team.
Electrical symbols
6d 18h
Hey Jake! We plan to add the ability to save symbols to the point count to allow this. For now, as a workaround, you could use the “Symbol Text” for the point count.
Sidebars Show/Hide Button and Auto Hide
6d 19h
Another thing, you can use the Space hotkey to bring up the quick search for takeoffs/templates and leave the sidebars collapsed all the time. You can also use the hotkey “P” to bring up the pages...
Sidebars Show/Hide Button and Auto Hide
6d 19h
I’ll mention it to the dev team. Maybe it could be a setting of some sort.
Takeoff quantities per page
6d 19h
Hey James! We don’t have the ability to show the quantities per page on the takeoff sidebar, but you can view the quantities per page in the left sidebar (if you expand the page), by showing the t...
Still Unsure of Using AI in zzTakeoff....
6d 19h
Hey Thomas! I replied to your other comment. We hope to have the vector data for the MCP on our testing servers by next week.
AI Is Getting so CLOSE. 400 page set here it got me started.
6d 19h
Hey Thomas! We’re hoping to have the Vector data for the MCP on our test servers by next week.
Sidebars Show/Hide Button and Auto Hide
6d 20h
Hey John! In the next update, we are adding customizable hot keys for the sidebars. I’ll also mention the shifting to the team.
Folder structure? - reports tab
7d 8h
Awesome! Glad you figured it out. 🙂
Can you add the ability to wrap text and have a row resized to fit in the text like you can do in excel in reports?
7d 12h
Hey Edinsa! Great feature request. I’ll pass it along to the dev team. 🙂
Callout - Wrap Text
7d 12h
Hey Camryn! Right now, when entering the text, you can add a new line with Enter to manually wrap the text. I’ll mention this to the dev team though. ExampleText
Multiple Plan Sheets
8d 14h
Hey Steve! You can open multiple pages by either middle-clicking the page in the pages sidebar or by selecting the 3-dot menu and clicking "Open in New Tab".
Three Buildings - Three Drawing Sets - One Take Off
8d 14h
Hey Bruce! You can create folders in the pages sidebar using the + button. Once you do that, you can drag/drop the pages into the appropriate folders. We plan to add custom properties to the pages ...
Why can't we put a filter on the first column in a report?
8d 14h
Thank you for the additional information. Which report type are you using? (Takeoff Tree, Advanced Takeoff, or Advanced Item Reports)
Panel Schedule to Excel
8d 17h
Hey Joseph, this would be a very cool feature! I've moved this to a feature request.
Font and line weight
8d 17h
Hey Art! I'll mention this to the team and see if we can lower the minimum for the Dimension Line Width.
Minor tweak to how collapse/expand level buttons work
8d 17h
Hey Victor, thanks for the feature request! Maybe we could add an option to toggle the behavior of expand/collapse. I'll forward this to the dev team.
Why can't we put a filter on the first column in a report?
8d 17h
Hey Edisna! What are you trying to filter by in the "Group" column? For the most part, our reports filter the root-level row data (not grouped rows).
Remove specific colors from palette
8d 17h
Hey Michael, thanks for the suggestion! I will let the team know.
Multiple tabs heavy memory usage
8d 17h
Hey Michael! Most of the memory usage comes from having a larger project open and all the takeoff data/computed variables loaded into memory. In addition, we sometimes load the PDF into memory to...
Bidding Calendar component request
9d 19h
Hey Gary! Thanks for the feature requests. In our upcoming update, we are planning to introduce integrations as well as an API, which will allow you to connect/sync with applications outside of z...
Draw plans on site with a Bluetooth laser measure
9d 19h
Hey Franklin! This would be pretty cool! We don't have any plans for this yet, but I'll let the dev team know in case we plan to pursue it in the future.
upload PDF files
9d 20h
Hey Greg! Currently, all PDFs are split into individual pages. For now, I would recommend moving them into a folder to group them. We have been discussing related topics internally, and we are co...
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