CostX has been developed with industry leaders to provide the most efficient package for today's quantity surveying and estimating professionals. CostX features include:

General

• Provides a simple interface for the extraction of dimensions from CAD files.

• Can be tied with a costing library to provide instant budget or valuation of buildings.

• Portable licensing using small convenient USB tokens.

• Simple but powerful scope management capabilities for CAD drawings and cost plans.

• Ability to work on building projects separately and merge the work into one building project.

Dimensioning

• Supports existing standard drawing formats (AutoCAD DWG, DXF and DWF).

• Supports electronic dimension extraction from paper drawings using scanning technology.

• Ability to add views and import dimension information from an Autodesk Revit drawing.

• Full measurement capability including area, length and count modes.

• Dimensions can be broken down into zones (representing functional areas/levels/units etc. or stages of construction).

• Fully supports scaled drawings (including separate X and Y scales) and allows calibration of scanned drawings.

• Ability to add measurements during session.

• Quick and easy measurements of reinforced steel using measurements from standard reinforced steel drawings.

• Export of measurements to Microsoft Excel.

• Overlay comparisons between two drawings in a building (eg. electrical and lighting drawings).

• Revisioning system for drawings. CostX makes it really easy to handle new revisions of drawings, maintaining the captured dimensions where they still exist and providing reports on changes between drawings - what is the same, what has changed, what is no longer on the drawing.

• Tied in with the revisioning capability of drawings, drawing comparison mode graphically shows the changes between the drawing revisions.

Costing

• Automatic cost plan generation from dimension information.

• Full data import capability from systems such as Buildsoft's Global Estimating System.

• Ability to 'tweak' cost plan elements, rates, quantities etc.

• Backwards linking and display. (For a quantity in a workbook cell, the option exists to display the referenced dimension on the drawing).

• Free form hierarchical spreadsheet capability (workbooks).

• Full workbook templates capability with live links to dimension groups and rate libraries.

• Rate libraries and price lists can be manually entered or imported.

• Standard reports such as Elemental Summery, Bill of Quantities, and Trade Breakup amongst others can be created for cost plans.

• Export of costing information to Excel.

• Enhanced revisioning system for workbooks including ability to create a new workbook based on the previous revision.

• Rates can be broken down using a spreadsheet per rate which can link back to other rate libraries/price lists. This means you can setup the way a rate is derived using full functionality and power of a spreadsheet, and then have the rates automatically updated when the price lists are updated.

• Fully customizable reports.

• Ability to do a workbook reorder (sort) based on code. For example, convert from Elemental to Trade etc.