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  • Reduces errors.
  • Enables you to standardize a takeoff process to your methods for use by all
    your staff.
  • Produces a complete audit trail of every step in the takeoff making sure
    you've missed nothing and confirming your estimate.
  • Stores your takeoffs not just as a list of numbers but visually as well.
  • If you are digitizing on screen from a digital image file, the original &
    drawings are stored with your takeoff.
  • Measurements are automatically converted to takeoff values for estimating.
  • Powerful wizards simplify the most complicated roofs and floor systems.
  • No roof plan? Create your own or do a complete accurate takeoff from the &
    elevation views.
  • Create your own accurate takeoff drawings even from sketches supplied out
    of scale.
  • Use drawings that have been reduced in size as easily as a true to scale
    drawing.
  • Share the application with colleagues on a network or even an a wide area
    network. Link PTO to any windows based estimating program.
  • Link PTO to your excel spread sheet.
  • Changes to the plan after you've completed the estimate? Quickly open
    your saved takeoff, make the adjustments on the takeoff drawing and
    instantly regenerate a new takeoff.
  • Best of all you don't need to change your thought process or takeoff order,
    just learn to let the computer do all the takeoff calculations for you.
The next generation of take off tools is here.

Graphical takeoff combining electronic input through a digitizer with the
ability to input on screen directly from a digital image in one program is a
first in the industry.  If you are still doing takeoffs the manual way with
a scale and calculator, it's time to leap forward a couple of generations to
PTO.
PTO - Professional Take Off
This graphical tool benefits you in many ways, a few of which are: