Drawings

Upload drawings

Every drawing in a tender lives in the plan drawer, at the bottom of Takeoff — folders of sheets, the ones you measure against. Written specification documents deliberately don't live here; see Specifications for why, and what to do with them instead.

Disciplines

Inside Drawings, sheets sit in folders called disciplines — Architectural, Structural, Hydraulic, or however you want to split the set. Right-click a folder for:

Rename — or just double-click the folder's name.
Sort by sheet number — reorders every plan inside it by the number printed on the sheet, instead of upload order.
Delete

Sheets

Each plan inside a folder shows its name and revision, both editable in place (double-click either to rename). A star pins a plan as a shortcut, so you can jump straight back to it without hunting through the folder. Drag a plan up or down to reorder it within its folder. Right-click a plan for Delete plan.

Adding drawings

Drag PDFs into the drawer to upload them — onto a folder to file them there, or onto the empty folder list to have a folder created for them automatically. There's no separate import screen; dropping the files is the whole action.

If pages of a file you drop read as a written specification rather than drawings, Estimator+ says so before uploading them — and recommends leaving them out. Specs aren't stored in Estimator+ at all; see Specifications for the reasoning and the better path.

Every upload gets read automatically

The moment a sheet lands, it's queued to be read by AI — automatically, and at no extra cost. While that's running, an AI learning plans progress meter tracks how many sheets are left. Once a sheet is done, it carries a small ✦ Ready for AI badge. If a sheet fails to read, the badge becomes a Retry button.

You don't need to wait for any of this before you start measuring — indexing runs in the background regardless of what you're doing on the canvas. It's what lets your connected AI agent search and cite the drawings later; see What the AI Connector is.