Video - InEight Estimate - Model to Estimate Integration

TRANSCRIPT

In this video, we'll walk an example of our InEight Model integration with estimate for model based take off quantities.

As an estimator, you need to get your take off quantities from your 3D model and integrate them into InEight Estimate.

Let's focus on the parking garage portion of this project.

In InEight Model, let's select the parking garage master preset.

Then InEight Estimate, let's select the estimates related cost items.

We can select cost items either at the parent level or at the child level.

We've already used these cost items user defined fields to relate them to the model objects in an innate model.

Under the more actions menu, in the model connector area, we can click to send the selected CBS to Model.

This sends the info to our DTOs or data transformation operations area.

As we expand the items that imported in, we can see they have same structure that came over from estimate.

Let's select a cost item inside the DTO and hit test notice it shows the Model objects we're using to quantify the estimate quantities.

We can pan around to see all the related Model objects.

As we select other cost items and hit test, we can see the different Model objects creating the quantities to send over to estimate.

Once we're satisfied with all of that, we can run that DTO either at apparent level or individual level.

Back in Estimate, select on sync to visually see the Model quantities compared to our current Estimate quantities.

Note the color coding that indicates how much of a delta that is between Model and Estimate quantities.

Let's select the items we want to bring in quantities from the Model, then click accept.

In real time, we'll see all the quantities in the forecast quantity columns that come over from the model.

Note that we can click select in Model and frame selected, which allows us to select a cost item inside Estimate and see the Model objects that are linked to it so we can interact with them. Well, that's an overview of how Model and Estimate integrate. Thanks for watching.