crux

Takeoff by hand

Reports and export

The takeoff report, its columns and grouping, the exports (marked-set PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON), revisions and the open sheets.

The takeoff report: each condition with its shapes, quantities, waste and w/Waste totals.The takeoff report: each condition with its shapes, quantities, waste and w/Waste totals.
The takeoff report: each condition with its shapes, quantities, waste and w/Waste totals.

Open the report

Report · Export in the tool row (or ⋯ > Report · Export… in simple mode). One page for the whole takeoff:

  • one row per condition: shapes, Floor SF, Wall SF, Border SF, LF, EA, waste, SF and SY with waste, and the height source for walls (for example "user-stated 2026-10-01");
  • the supporting-materials buy list: each material's quantity is the measured basis ÷ its coverage, rounded up to whole units;
  • Show by-sheet base quantities for each sheet's numbers.

How the numbers work: waste lives only in the w/Waste columns (measured × (1 + waste %)); SY is SF w/Waste ÷ 9; a ×N multiplier multiplies every quantity; counts never take waste. Close goes back to the canvas.

Columns, grouping and project info

  • Columns: what the table (and the CSV) shows. Optional columns include Total SF, Waste SF, Perimeter LF, your own condition columns, imported spec and Labor.
  • Group: sections with subtotals by Sheet, by Label, or by one of your columns.
  • Project info: the project name and the print masthead (client, reference, date, prepared by).

Export

Export in the report:

ExportWhat you get
Marked set PDFEvery sheet with takeoffs or markups, the work drawn on it in the conditions' colours with quantity chips, a legend cover with totals, approval seals and RFI markers. Include markups turns the markups on or off (seals always print). Send it to anyone; they need no software.
ExcelA workbook: Summary, By sheet, Materials, Shapes (the audit trail) and By floor × room.
CSVThe condition table, exactly the columns shown.
JSONThe full report as data.
Shapes CSV / JSONEvery shape's own measured quantity, no waste or multiplier.
Materials summary CSV / ExcelThe combined buy list.

Print prints the report itself. With RFIs on the canvas, RFI CSV and RFI JSON export the canvas's RFI register.

The marked set follows the canvas: an inverted sheet prints dark.

Note: Your estimate does not come from this report. crux carries the approved takeoff into your estimate workbook itself (see Build the estimate); the report and exports are for checking and sharing.

Revisions

Revisions in the panels on the right edge. Addenda happen:

  • Save the takeoff as a named revision (Rev N and the date) at every bid revision and before anything risky.
  • Compare a revision with the live takeoff or another revision: what moved, per condition, per sheet and on the buy list, with Export compare CSV.
  • Restore first saves the live takeoff as "Auto-backup before restore", then loads the revision.

Open sheets

N open in the tool row lists the sheets you opened from the gallery: jump to one, put it side by side with the current sheet, or close it. Closing a sheet never deletes its takeoffs.

Saving

The canvas saves the takeoff into the job's own folder about a second after every change; the status bar says saved. crux and the canvas share that file, so what you draw is what crux reads.

Common mistakes

  • Sending numbers without the drawings. The marked set is the takeoff: the quantities with where they were measured.
  • Comparing revisions to find which wall moved. Compare shows which numbers moved, by condition and sheet, not which line.