Upload a floor plan. Get the take‑off.
BuildTracer reads residential PDF drawings and traces every wall, door, window and room, so you start the estimate with quantities instead of a scale ruler.
Reading the drawing
Ground floor plan, 1:100From drawing set to quantities in one pass
Most of a take-off is tracing what the architect already drew. BuildTracer does the tracing and leaves you the checking.
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Upload the drawings
Drop in the PDF set. BuildTracer finds the floor plans among the elevations, sections and site plans.
2
It traces the plan
Walls, doors, windows, rooms and fixtures are traced on the sheet, with the scale taken from the printed dimensions.
3
Every area is checked
A second pass looks over each part of the plan and repairs what the first one missed.
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Review and export
Check the layers against the drawing, then take the quantities as CSV and the traced sheets as PDF.
Numbers you can price from
- Quantities
- Room areas, wall lengths, door and window counts and fixtures, added up across every sheet in a project and exported as CSV for your estimating spreadsheet.
- Annotated PDF
- The traced layers drawn back onto your original sheets, so anyone on the job can see exactly what was measured.
| Item | Layer | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Living | Rooms | 72.0 m² |
| Garage | Rooms | 36.0 m² |
| Bed 1 | Rooms | 22.5 m² |
| Bed 2 | Rooms | 20.3 m² |
| Hall | Rooms | 18.0 m² |
| Bed 3 | Rooms | 14.0 m² |
| Ensuite | Rooms | 6.3 m² |
| Bath | Rooms | 6.3 m² |
| WIR | Rooms | 5.0 m² |
| Laundry | Rooms | 3.8 m² |
| Floor area | 204.0 m² | |
| External walls | Walls | 60.0 m |
| Internal walls | Walls | 52.0 m |
| Doors | Doors | 11 |
| Windows | Windows | 8 |
| Fixtures | Fixtures | 9 |
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