Introducing AI, a New Rendering System, and Zoom to 3000%

Introducing AI in Easy Takeoffs

AI is now part of Easy Takeoffs. Two features ship today, both aimed at taking the tedious setup work off your plate so you can get to measuring faster. With the foundation now in place, a lot more is on the way over the coming weeks and months.

AI Auto Page Naming. A plan set used to arrive as Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, with no hint of what was on any of them. Now, the moment you upload, AI reads the title block on every sheet and names the page by its sheet number and title, like "A-101 First Floor Plan" or "S-2.1 Foundation Plan". A 40-page set is navigable the second it finishes loading. Names you set yourself are never touched, and every AI name stays fully editable.

AI Auto Scale Detection. Text-based scale detection already reads the printed scale off most vector PDFs. The gap was always scanned drawings and photos of plans, where there is no text to read and you had to calibrate by hand. AI closes that gap: it reads the scale printed on the sheet the way you would and suggests it for you to confirm before you measure. Text detection still runs first, so clean CAD exports never wait on AI.

How to use it

Both features run automatically when you upload a plan set, with toggles in the upload window if you ever want to turn one off. To run them on a document you uploaded earlier, open it and click the AI button in the toolbar. Pages that were already analyzed are skipped, so re-running is fast.

You stay in control

AI page names only fill pages that have no name yet, never replacing one you typed. An AI-read scale is always presented as a suggestion you confirm, because a wrong scale would throw off every measurement on the page. The goal is to take the busywork off your plate, not to make the calls for you.

More AI is on the way

Naming pages and reading scales is where we started. With AI now wired into the product, the next features will keep pulling the repetitive, slow parts of takeoffs off your plate. They will roll out as they are ready over the coming weeks and months.

A New Page Rendering System

The way pages display on the canvas was rebuilt from the ground up. You will notice it in three places:

• Sharper at every zoom. Hairlines, thin annotation strokes, and small dimension text stay crisp instead of softening when you zoom in close.
• Instant zoom and pan. Zooming and panning use the already-rendered page directly, so they happen with no waiting for a re-render.
• Easier on tablets and phones. Large plan sets handle better on iPad and iPhone, with lower memory use under the hood.

Older documents pick this up automatically. The first time you open one, page thumbnails fill in across the sidebar and your dashboard in the background while you work.

Maximum Zoom Raised to 3000%

The maximum zoom went from 600% to 3000%, five times deeper than before. You can now zoom all the way in on a single fixture, a callout in a title block, or a hatch pattern and still see the geometry at full clarity. The new rendering system stays sharp the whole way.

The zoom controls in the toolbar were updated to match: presets now span 50% to 3000%, with stops in between for the common targets.

Quality of Life Fixes

Live activity indicator. A small stack of pills in the bottom right corner shows what is happening in the background: page rendering, snap loading, thumbnail generation, AI naming. Each task gets its own pill so you know exactly what is in flight, and the canvas stays clear.

Zoom holds across page switches. When pages in a combined PDF differ in size, the page used to collapse to a sliver after you flipped to it while zoomed. Now your zoom level and the spot you were looking at stay anchored across pages.