ZeroCount

What ZeroCount is, signing in, finding your way around, and a complete first takeoff from upload to export.

The Projects page, project statuses, and how to create, update, duplicate, archive and recover a project.

Upload drawings, organise them into categories, read the badges on each drawing, and open, rotate, reorder, download, delete or reset them.

A tour of the drawing workspace: the toolbar, the New Takeoff and Actions menus, zooming and panning, and Takeoff versus Review mode.

Set the scale before you measure: scale systems, presets, custom scale, calibration, paper size, and showing measurements on the drawing.

Find every instance of a symbol with Detect New Symbol and Auto Detect Symbols, draw legends and AoIs, clean up the drawing, and count by hand where needed.

Measure pipe, cable and duct runs and floor areas by hand or automatically, including pipe sizes, bends, T-junctions and reducers.

Work through what was found: select, move, merge, rename, recolour, hide and annotate markers and groups in the sidebar.

Group marker groups into Services, isolate one service with the mask, assign pipe sizes, split and join runs, and check coverage radii.

Split totals by room, floor or area with zones, and understand how zones differ from AoIs.

Reuse group, zone and AoI setups across drawings, import from other drawings, and maintain your company's custom priced items.

Link groups to database components, Contractors Choice items, assemblies or custom items so costs flow through to totals and the export.

Review the whole project in one table, tidy across drawings, and export quantities to Excel or the drawings to PNG and PDF.

Keyboard shortcuts, every user preference, working alongside colleagues, what's new, and what to do when something isn't working.