Edit (Takeoff)

The Takeoff Edit selections are available in Takeoff File Maintenance only.

Some Edit selections (Edit, Cut, Copy, Paste, Add, and Delete) can also be accessed by clicking the right mouse button once on a highlighted item. This displays a menu of these choices.

VIEWS: Displays the Takeoff views menu (Maintenance, Options, Picture, etc.). The Takeoff views are discussed in Takeoff Screen.

The Views selection is only available when the Edit menu is accessed by a secondary mouse click in TFM.

EDIT ITEM This selection from the Edit pull-down menu lets you edit or change the item information. See Editing an Item for how to edit an item in Takeoff File Maintenance.

EDIT ASSOCIATED… This selection allows you to edit the associated Databook Items and Estimate Specials of supported items. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Space will also activate the feature. If a particular item is not supported, the Edit menu selection will become the grayed-out text, “No associated item to edit.”

If you change the Item’s price/labor through Databook, the Takeoff grid will not be updated until the screen is refreshed by exiting and reentering the Section.

ADDITEM The Add Item command from the Edit pull-down menu lets you add an item. The Add Item command is explained in Adding an Item.

INSERT ATTACHMENT The Insert Attachment selection allows you to add file attachments to the Takeoff file. These attachments can be a text file, Word document, Excel file, etc. See the Attachment section earlier in this topic.

INSERT TAKEOFF NOTE The Insert Takeoff Note selection allows you to add notes to the Takeoff file. See the Takeoff Notes section earlier in this topic.

DELETE ITEM The Edit > Delete Item command or Tool bar button allows you to delete an item or items from a Takeoff file. See Deleting an Item.

UNDO This command or Tool bar button reverses the last editing action, if possible. The Undo selection states what editing action it will undo, such as Undo Paste, Undo Cut, Undo Delete, etc., depending on the last editing action. After use, the button and menu selection become inactive until the next editing action or Takeoff entry.

SELECT ALL The Edit > Select All option or Tool bar button alternately selects and de-selects all items.

CUT Edit > Cut removes the currently selected item(s) from the file and puts it (them) on the clipboard. This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Cutting data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there. The item(s) can then be pasted to another takeoff file (or back into the current takeoff file) or left as deleted.

COPY Use the Edit > Copy command to copy the currently selected item(s) from the file and puts it (them) on the clipboard. This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected. See Selecting Lines in the Estimating Help for how to select items.

Copying data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there. The item(s) can then be pasted to another takeoff file.

Items that are deleted after being copied will not paste, but instead be lost. Be sure to paste any copied items before deleting them from the Takeoff Maintenance view.

PASTE Use this command to insert a copy of the clipboard contents (a result of using the Cut or Copy command) at the insertion point. This command is unavailable if the clipboard is empty. There are also several special Paste options, which can be accessed by a when highlighting the Paste command.

Append – Will paste at the end of the audit trail.

Insert – Will insert the items before the selected item in the maintenance view.

Replace Selected – Will replace the selected item(s) with the contents of the last copied item. The selected items’ quantity, factors, and levels will be used as the basis for the newly pasted items.

Replace Like Assemblies – Will replace all assemblies that match the selected assembly, using the original’s quantity, factors, and levels as the basis for the newly pasted items.

You will only be able to append specials into their own takeoff.

FIND The Find function will search the file for the entered word, phrase, number, or any combination thereof in any field. The Find window contains standard Windows search options.

Find: Enter what you want the search to look for.

Match Case (check box): If Match Case is checked, the search will look for exactly what is typed in the Find field. The search is case sensitive, so when you are using this, you must have upper and lower case consistency to find what you are looking for.

Match Entire Column (check box): If you know the exact contents of a column, you can check this box, and enter your search in the Find field. This search also works with Selected Column. When Selected Columns is checked, and a column is selected, the Find field will have a drop-down box that searches in the selected column. However, this only applies is the choice in Selected Columns has choices that are in a drop-down menu.

Search: You can select whether you want to search up or down from your current location.

All Columns or Selected Columns: If you select all columns, the search will take place in all of the columns. If you select Selected Columns, you can select what columns the search will take place in by using the drop-down window.

Find Next: This will find and select the next instance of the characters entered in the Find field.

Select All: This will find and select all instances of the characters entered in the Find field.

FIND NEXT This will find and select the next instance of the characters entered in the Find field.

FIND INVALID ITEM The Edit > Find Invalid Item command is useful when you have a large number of items in the maintenance view, and you want to quickly locate the next invalid item. Each time you select this option, it will take you to the next invalid item on your list.

LOOKUP: The Edit > Lookup function allows you to search the Mechanical Databook for items. These items can be taken off once found. See Using Lookup.

Lookup can also be accessed in single item takeoff by pressing the Size/Lookup key (on the PowerPad) in the Item Number window.

ADD TO DATABOOK Allows you to add invalid items to the Databook right from Takeoff. The new Databook item will be set to the same subtotals as the first item in the key to which it is added. Simply select the invalid items that you want to add to the Databook, and then select Edit > Add to Databook.

UPDATE LIKE ASSEMBLIES This option will update all assemblies like the one selected.

This function will only work on new Jobs that were created after version 6.0.

REPLACE WITH SNAPSHOT Will replace items with a snapshot

Like Assemblies – Will replace like assemblies

Selected Item – Will replace selected items

DESIGN SPECS ON Turns Design Specifications on prior to taking off items; off after takeoff. See Setting Design Specifications Active Prior to Takeoff earlier in this topic.

SET DIMENSIONS – Allows you to set specific Dimensions.

EDIT SIZE KEYS – This option will allow you to edit settings of the size key.

UPDATE ASSEMBLY FACTORS: Allows you to re-set any overridden factors that were manually changed on the assembly sub-items. The factors will be reset to what the header item was at takeoff. See Update Assembly Factors for more detail.

EDIT CATEGORY RANKINGS: Allows you to reorganize the order in which the categories are displayed in the list boxes. See Category Rankings.