What "confirming" means
A confirmed marker is one you've reviewed and explicitly accepted. Confirmation is a soft status — it doesn't change how the marker behaves on the drawing or in the Excel export. What it does:
- Makes it easier to track progress through a long Stage 2 pass.
- Helps when someone hands a half-reviewed drawing to a colleague.
- Visually distinguishes reviewed markers from "still to look at".
Confirming is optional. Many people skip it entirely on small projects and just go through Stage 2 deleting/keeping by eye. On large projects with thousands of markers, it's worth the overhead.
Confirming a single marker
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Click the marker on the canvas to select it.
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Right-click to bring up the context menu, or use the keyboard shortcut for confirm if one is configured.
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Choose Confirm from the menu.
The marker's visual style shifts subtly to indicate confirmation — typically a slight fill or border change, depending on the group's appearance settings.
Confirming everything in a group
If you've reviewed an entire group at once:
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Open the group's dotted menu in the sidebar.
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Choose the confirm-group option if available.
Every marker in the group flips to confirmed in one action.
Confirm a group only when you've genuinely looked at every marker. Bulk-confirming a group with hundreds of markers without checking defeats the point of the status.
When confirmation is most useful
- Handoffs between team members. "I've confirmed everything in Auto Count Symbol — Twin Socket; please review Linear and Area." gives a clear baton-pass.
- Auditing. When a senior estimator reviews the takeoff later, confirmed markers signal "the original takeoff agent is happy with these" and tell the reviewer to focus elsewhere.
- Long-running projects. Coming back to a project after two weeks, confirmed markers tell you which areas are settled and which you were still working on.
When it doesn't matter
- Single-person quick takeoffs. If you're going start-to-finish in one sitting, confirmation is overhead with no benefit.
- Auto-Count Symbol additions. Markers added by your own Auto Count Symbol drag are typically OK without confirmation — you placed them deliberately, so they're inherently "reviewed".