A tour of the drawing workspace: the toolbar, the New Takeoff and Actions menus, zooming and panning, and Takeoff versus Review mode.
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A Tour of the Takeoff Workspace
An overview of the drawing workspace in ZeroCount: the breadcrumb, the header toolbar, the canvas, the zoom controls and the marker sidebar.
Updated 4 September 2026
Zoom, Pan and Fit
How to move around a drawing in ZeroCount: panning, zooming to the cursor, the floating zoom card, what each cursor means, and the Legacy Controls alternative.
The New Takeoff Menu
A reference to every item in the New Takeoff menu: the drawing options, the four takeoff tools, the automatic takeoff tools, linked takeoff and importing from other drawings.
The Actions Menu
A reference to every item in the workspace Actions menu, from rotating the drawing and adding annotations to templates, export, drawing status and reset.
Takeoff and Review Modes
How the workspace switches between Takeoff mode, where you count and measure one drawing, and Review mode, where the sidebar widens to compare every drawing in the project and export.
