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BidScreen XL gives you the power to takeoff your electronic plans directly in Microsoft Excel. Electronic plan files supported include pdf (Acrobat recommended), tif, bmp, jpg, pic, dwg, dxf and others. With BidScreen XL, you can zoom and pan the image while you're working in Excel.   Takeoffs are a snap, just click on a spreadsheet cell and electronically measure and identify areas, lengths and counts from your electronic drawing files with your mouse. The measurements and digitized takeoff drawings are saved with the Excel workbook and can be edited and printed. And, you can apply colors, count symbols, line styles and area fill patterns to your drawings. Sample estimating Excel template files for general contractors, concrete, roofing, painting and other subtrades are also included. BidScreen XL is simple, efficient and no additional hardware is needed. So, go electronic and make your takeoffs easy. Call today and see how BidScreen XL and ePlans work for you.  View a short BidScreen XL Video Overview View a Video Demonstration of BidScreen XL  Detailed BidScreen XL Tutorial Video Below

BidScreen XL gives you the power to takeoff your electronic plans directly in Microsoft Excel. Electronic plan files supported include pdf, tif, bmp, jpg, dwg, dxf and others. With BidScreen XL, you can zoom and pan the image while you're working in Excel.
 
Takeoffs are a snap, just click on a spreadsheet cell and electronically measure and identify areas, lengths and counts from your electronic drawing files with your mouse. The measurements and digitized takeoff drawings are saved with the Excel workbook and can be edited and printed. And, you can apply colors, count symbols, line styles and area fill patterns to your drawings.
 
Sample estimating Excel template files for general contractors, concrete, roofing, painting and other subtrades are also included.
 
BidScreen XL is simple, efficient and no additional hardware is needed. So, go electronic and make your takeoffs easy. Call today and see how BidScreen XL and ePlans work for you.

Project/Drawing Management

Clearly display, organize, annotate, highlight and describe drawing files at the drawing level with the Project/Drawing Manager.

• Override default settings for the current project.
• Set report captions and titles.
• Open, rotate and scale drawings.
• Hide, or show drawings in the drawing list.
• Provide a description to be used in the drawing list.

BidScreen XL currently supports the following file formats:

Version 8

  Some of the enhancements added to BidScreen XL Version 8.0 include:

• Support for vector PDF files, including:
• Entity selection
• Snap to entity point
• Layer selection
• Edit takeoff objects.
• Add, delete and move points.
• Add, delete and change arcs.
• Round to one inch.
• Drawing cache to speed up changing drawings.
• Faster entity selection and snap to entity point with CAD files.
• New ribbon style toolbars on Project/Drawing Manager.
• Additional Windows Themes now available for user display preferences.

Vertigraph offers live personal demonstrations over the internet. These software product demos will address your specific questions and needs. Approximate time per demo is fifteen minutes. Schedule an on-line demonstration today to see how BidScreen XL works for you.

If you currently have Microsoft Excel 2007 or newer, Download a working copy of BidScreen XL and test drive its ease of use. After downloading and installing, please view the BidScreen XL help file for instructions on use.

BidScreen XL (32 bit) System Requirements:

BidScreen XL (64 bit) System Requirements:

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Schedule an on-line demonstration of BidScreen XL. 

The following BidScreen XL documents are available for download:

BidScreen XL Help File (2.5MB)
BidScreen XL User Guide (1.3MB)
 

Vertigraph recommends the following software for use with BidScreen XL:
File converters for DWG/DWF/DXF files.