DesignFlow Build
Electrical Takeoff Software
Electrical takeoff software counts the fixtures, devices, and gear on your E-sheets so you can price the job without a highlighter and a clicker. DesignFlow Build's AI Blueprint Takeoff reads the electrical sheets in your uploaded plan set — legend first, then the drawings — and returns counts by fixture tag with a bill of quantities that lands directly in your estimate.
What it picks up on your E-sheets
- Fixtures and devices by tag: lighting fixtures, receptacles, switches, and devices counted per the tags your lighting fixture schedule defines — not lumped into generic buckets.
- Panel and fixture schedules: read and extracted from the sheets, then reconciled against what is actually drawn.
- Runs between them: feeder and circuit runs traced as connected systems where the drawings show them.
- Your project's legend: symbol-to-name mappings pulled from E0.0 and the general notes before analysis, layered on a 200+ term MEP vocabulary with CSI codes.
Counted, priced, and carried through the job
The takeoff produces a bill of quantities that flows into estimating in the same platform — no CSV round-trip. Win the work and the same numbers become the budget your job costing tracks against. If you want to see the destination format first, the estimate template shows the line-item structure quantities land in.
Where the AI still needs your estimator
Ambiguous symbols, non-standard legends, low-quality scans, and plan/schedule conflicts still require an electrician's read. DesignFlow Build flags low-confidence detections with validation warnings so review happens before pricing — the AI removes the counting hours, and your estimator keeps the final say on every quantity.
Frequently asked questions
It counts the electrical scope from your plan set — fixtures and devices by tag, panels, and the runs between them — and produces the quantities you price. DesignFlow Build does this with AI: the E-sheets in your uploaded PDF are classified and read automatically.
Counts are grouped by fixture tag from your lighting fixture schedule and legend, so an A1 downlight is counted as an A1 everywhere it appears. Low-confidence detections carry validation warnings for your estimator to review rather than being silently included.
Yes — schedules on the electrical sheets are detected and extracted along with symbols, so scheduled panels and fixtures reconcile against what is drawn on the plans.
It reads the legend and general-notes pages (e.g. E0.0) first and extracts your symbol-to-name mappings, then applies them with a 200+ term MEP vocabulary and CSI codes. Detection uses the project's own terminology.
Yes. The takeoff produces a bill of quantities that feeds the estimating module in the same platform — no export/re-key step — and the priced work flows on to scheduling, job costing, and accounting.