PlanMeasure Takeoff vs DWF View

Measure plans, organize quantities, and build an estimate on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. PlanMeasure Takeoff opens blueprint PDFs and plan images, measures lengths, areas, and counts, and helps you price the work. Plans and project data are processed locally; no account or plan upload is required. CHECK THE SCALE • Calibrate each sheet from a known dimension. • Use architectural, engineering, and metric PDF scale presets. • Check the scale against a second known dimension and see its provenance and verification status. • Review missing-scale warnings before export. A printed scale alone cannot confirm that a scanned or resized plan is accurate. ORGANIZE BY ROOM OR FLOOR • Label selected items with a room, floor, zone, or other location. • Search those labels and keep them in CSV exports. • See location subtotals in text and PDF reports, with length, area, and count quantities kept separate. • Items missing a page or required scale are identified and excluded from location subtotals. • Locations are assigned manually; the app does not automatically divide a drawing into rooms. MEASURE AND PRICE • Trace lengths and areas, count fixtures, and enter field quantities. • Snap to traced endpoints, midpoints, intersections, or the grid, with optional angle constraints and a touch loupe. • Apply unit prices, waste, and slack; reuse personal cost kits. • Convert estimated quantities into whole-package material orders using your package coverage. • Review package counts, overage, trade totals, and missing-price checks. • See purchase estimates and extra whole-package costs in the editor and reports. These use your entered unit rate, including any labor in that rate, and exclude tax and delivery. Existing bid totals remain unchanged. • Calculate contingency, overhead, profit, and a final bid total. KEEP AND SHARE YOUR WORK • Undo and redo changes across the estimating workflow. • Restore automatic draft checkpoints after an interrupted session. • Export a portable project backup with its plan pages and restore it as a separate copy on a compatible device. • Export CSV, marked-up plans, and PDF bid reports. • Try the included demo before importing your own plan. For framing, flooring, drywall, painting, roofing, concrete, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and general estimating. Measurements depend on the source drawing, calibration, and your inputs. Verify dimensions, scope, prices, and exported quantities before ordering materials or submitting a bid. • Preview measured quantities before applying a known-dimension scale change, including the affected item count and reminders when units change.

DWF View opens the drawings architects, engineers and contractors exchange as DWF, DWFx and DXF files - on Mac, iPad and iPhone, with no AutoCAD, no Design Review and no account. A DWF carries a whole set, sheet by sheet, exactly as it was plotted. DWF View keeps it that way: every sheet in a browser with thumbnails, faithful line weights, hatches, text and images, and the paper size and scale the drawing was issued at. Scanned pages inside a set open too. FREE - Open DWF, DWFx and DXF drawings, including multi-sheet sets - Sheet browser with thumbnails - Zoom, pan and rotate by gesture, trackpad or mouse - Open straight from Files, Finder, Mail or any app that shares a document - Check the digital signature of signed drawings (DWFx, .asics, .asice) DWF VIEW PRO - ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE - Measure distances, areas, angles, radii and counts, with snapping, in metric or imperial units - Scale read from the title block (1:100, 1/4" = 1'-0"), or calibrated against a known dimension - Mark up drawings: revision clouds, arrows, callouts, notes, highlights and freehand - Comments placed on the sheet, exported as a spreadsheet - Turn CAD layers on and off, and read the data behind each object - Compare two revisions and see what was added and removed - Search the text of every sheet - Several drawings open at once, in tabs - Rename and remove sheets, combine drawings, save as DWF or DWFx - Export and print: PDF at the drawing's real paper size, PDF/A for submissions, PNG, SVG and DXF Try every Pro feature free for 14 days. The trial is taken once, never renews and never charges; when it ends, opening and viewing drawings stays free. Pro is a single purchase with no subscription, shared by your Mac, iPad and iPhone through your Apple Account. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Drawings are converted and displayed on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and the app collects no data. In English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean. The translations of DWF View into other languages were prepared with the help of AI. If you spot a mistake, please tell us at hello@byn.pt. DWF View is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD, Revit and Design Review are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.