Take-Off by WEQS Reviews & Product Details

Take-Off by WEQS is on-screen measurement software for quantity surveyors, estimators and contractors, written by a practising quantity surveyor in Kuala Lumpur. Open a PDF or a CAD drawing (PDF, DWG, DXF, DWFx), or a photo or scan of a drawing (JPG, PNG, TIFF), set the scale once, and trace what you need: areas in square metres, lengths in running metres, counts, and angles in degrees. A length can run in separate pieces, so a wall or kerb that stops and starts is still one item. On CAD drawings and vector PDFs you can click a line or a room outline that already exists in the drawing and the whole path is measured at once, with none of the clicking error that comes from tracing corner by corner. Every marking goes into a take-off group – floor finishes, walls, doors – with its own colour and running total, and every item keeps a permanent reference number. Tick quantities off as you check them or flag them as queries; the list keeps score. Click any quantity in the list and the drawing opens on that marking, so checking a take-off is one click per line. Export to Excel or CSV with totals per group, or copy rows straight into the measurement sheet you already use. Print the marked-up drawing to PDF with a legend, in colour, greyscale or monochrome. Five ways to set the scale, including correcting from a known dimension. Until a sheet is scaled, its quantities read zero in red rather than a plausible wrong number. Every figure is measured from the drawing's own coordinates: nothing is estimated and nothing is guessed from a picture, so each quantity can be traced back to its source. The whole job – markings, groups, scales and the drawings themselves – saves as a single file that opens on any machine. Sixty steps of undo. Runs offline on Windows 10 or 11; drawings and quantities never leave your PC. Free 30-day trial with every feature on and no card. Then USD 9.90 / RM 39.90 per seat per month or USD 99 / RM 399 per year. If a subscription lapses, every job you measured still opens and exports.