Measure pipe, cable and duct runs and floor areas by hand or automatically, including pipe sizes, bends, T-junctions and reducers.
8 articles
Linear and Area Takeoff
An overview of measuring pipe, cable and duct runs and floor areas in ZeroCount, by hand with the Linear and Area tools or automatically with Auto Takeoff.
Updated 4 September 2026
Drawing Linear Measurements
How to trace a pipe, cable or trunking run by hand with the Linear Measurement tool, close it into a loop, edit its corners and read its length on the drawing and in the sidebar.
Drawing Area Measurements
How to outline a floor, ceiling or roof area by hand with the Area Measurement tool, edit its corners and read its area on the drawing and in the sidebar.
Auto Takeoff From One Sample
How to use Auto Linear (sample one line) to drag across one pipe or cable run and have ZeroCount trace every run of that service across the drawing, on vector and image drawings alike.
Auto Detect Linear
How to use Auto Detect (pick line patterns) to list every coloured line pattern on a drawing and take off several services at once, without sampling each one by hand.
Sizes, Bends, T-Junctions and Reducers
How Auto Takeoff reads pipe sizes from the drawing, files each run under a size group, and counts bends, T-junctions and reducers with size tags such as 22x22x15.
Takeoff on Other Drawings
How ZeroCount searches for the same service on the other drawings in a category after you take a takeoff sample, what the toasts report, and which drawings are skipped and why.
Tidying Takeoff Results
How to clear the detection overlay left by Auto Takeoff, remove failed sample lines, delete junk runs and duplicate groups, and why sample numbering matters when fittings are pooled.
