Construction takeoff software, by trade
TRACEBUILD does real quantity takeoff for every trade, right in your browser. Pick your trade below to see what you can measure, detect, and count, then export to Excel. Nothing to install.
Free while TRACEBUILD Lite is in early access. No download, no credit card.
Pick your trade
Electrical
Devices, conduit and wire runs
HVAC
Ductwork, equipment, diffusers
Plumbing
Fixtures and pipe runs
Concrete
Slabs, footings, and walls
Drywall
Wall area and LF by partition
Flooring
Floor areas by room and type
Sitework
Site areas, curb, and utilities
Painting
Wall and ceiling paint areas
Roofing
Worked roof plan: areas, coping and penetrations
Masonry
Block and brick wall areas
Steel
Members, deck, and connections
Worked examples and templates
The plumbing, flooring, painting and concrete pages each walk through a takeoff on a real public-domain plan set, with the quantities TRACEBUILD reported and the exported workbook to download.
New to takeoff? Start with how to do a construction takeoff, check your sheets against the drawing scale chart, and record quantities in the free takeoff template (Excel), which has a tab for each trade on this page.
What every trade gets
- Measure to scale, area, length, and count on any PDF plan set.
- One-click detection, Detect Spaces names rooms and Detect Runs groups line-work by trade.
- Works on any PDF, vector or scanned, with text search and OCR across every sheet.
- Private by design, drawings are processed on your own device by default, not uploaded.
- Estimate-ready export to CSV and Excel, straight into how you already bid.
- Free in the browser while TRACEBUILD Lite is in early access.