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Go from a blank workspace to a measured, counted, exported takeoff: upload, calibrate, measure, count, and export.

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Speed up markup and takeoff work with tool hotkeys, editing shortcuts, and view controls in the workspace.

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Understand the ContractorCounter workspace layout: drawing tabs, toolbars, panels, search, chat, and the BoQ pane.

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How trying ContractorCounter for free works, what Pro, Team, and Lifetime include, and what happens when a trial or payment lapses.

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Learn how to add, select, move, resize, style, lock, and organize markups on ContractorCounter construction drawings.

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Use Select mode to pick markups, move them, resize them, and edit their handles on a drawing.

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Add text notes to construction drawings and format them with font, colour, alignment, and style controls.

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Point at details with callout leaders, flag changes with revision clouds, and sketch freehand with the pen tool.

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Draw line and arrow annotations for callouts, directions, scope boundaries, and review notes.

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Place dimension-style markup labels for clear visual distances and scale notes on drawings.

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Use rectangle and ellipse markups to box, circle, or highlight drawing areas that need attention.

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Create multi-point shape and line markups for irregular areas, boundaries, routes, and scope outlines.

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Change colour, opacity, line weight, fill, hatch, font, and alignment for supported markup types.

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Lock drawing markups to avoid accidental movement, then unlock them when edits are needed.

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Flatten markups into the drawing so they cannot be edited by mistake, then unflatten to bring them back.

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Bring markups forward, send them backward, and manage the visual stack on a drawing page.

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Reuse selected drawing annotations with copy, cut, paste, paste in place, and duplicate actions.

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Step backward and forward through markup edits with undo and redo in the drawing workspace.

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Place stamp symbols such as checkmarks on drawing items from search results and review workflows.

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Capture a drawing region to reuse, send to AI, or erase from the visible markup view.

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Apply, pin, and reuse markup tool presets from the Tool Chest panel: My Tools, Recent Tools, and built-in sets.

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Set drawing scale in ContractorCounter and create calibrated length, area, perimeter, and volume measurements.

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Calibrate a drawing page by matching a known printed dimension to a real-world length.

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Use the distance measurement tool to measure a single straight run on a calibrated drawing.

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Trace a closed boundary to calculate area quantities from calibrated drawing geometry.

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Measure multi-segment boundary lengths with the perimeter measurement tool.

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Use volume measurement when an area takeoff needs depth to calculate cubic quantities.

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Use the Measurements panel to review totals for distance, area, and count markups on the active drawing.

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Export listed drawing measurements to a CSV file for spreadsheet review or estimating workflows.

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Use the construction grid and snapping controls to place markups more consistently on drawings.

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Recheck and update drawing calibration when PDF scale, page size, rotation, or sheet scale changes.

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Use ContractorCounter count tools to count doors, fixtures, sockets, fittings, and repeated drawing items.

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Use circle, square, rectangle, checkmark, triangle, or cross count markers to keep count groups distinct.

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Continue an existing count group so new markers are added to the same total instead of creating a new group.

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Separate count markers from a group or merge multiple count groups into one reviewed total.

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Use drawing text search results to create count or stamp markups from matching PDF text locations.

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Connect ContractorCounter drawing measurements and counts to a Bill of Quantities that updates as markups change.

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Export ContractorCounter marked-up drawings to PDF for review, records, and sharing with project teams.

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Export marked-up drawing pages to PDF with flexible page scopes, content options, and paper sizes.

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Export single pages as PNG or JPEG images from the Thumbnails panel, and the status of full image export.

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Export a marked-up drawing PDF and print it from your computer.

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Export a formatted Bill of Quantities PDF from ContractorCounter quote and takeoff data.

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Manage brand presets — logo, company name, and colours — used on BoQ exports and signature placements.

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Review, select, rename, group, sort, and export drawing markups from the Markup List panel.

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Use Markup List grouping and sorting to find, audit, and manage drawing annotations faster.

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Edit selected markup fields, appearance, fill, font, measurement values, and count shapes.

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Select page markups, change visual order, and lock or unlock annotations from the Layers panel.

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Search drawing text and markup text, review results, and jump directly to matching pages.

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Navigate drawing pages, review page thumbnails, and manage pages with rotate, insert, extract, and delete actions.

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Manage drawings and related files with folders, statuses, and explorer-style columns in the Files panel.

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Edit drawing metadata, attachments, page tags, and custom properties from the Settings panel.

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Create, manage, and place reusable signature profiles in the drawing workspace.

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Review measurement rows, navigate to measured markups, export CSV, and inspect grouped totals.

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Use the Search panel's visual search workflow to find drawing items from a captured region.

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Upload PDF drawings and site photos into a ContractorCounter workspace and confirm they are ready for markup.

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Use the app dashboard to reopen recent markup workspaces and continue drawing review.

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Switch between open drawing documents and keep the active drawing clear during review.

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Rotate drawing pages from the Thumbnails panel and verify scale-sensitive work after rotation.

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Insert, replace, extract, delete, and reorganize PDF pages from the Thumbnails panel.

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Use split view layouts to compare two open drawings side by side in the same workspace.

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Use the Compare Drawings tool to review two revisions with synchronized zoom and pan.

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Place a signature markup on a drawing using the Sign Document workflow or Signatures panel.

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Invite collaborators to a ContractorCounter workspace by email or share link so your team can mark up the same construction drawings together.

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Mark up construction drawings together in real time — see who is in the workspace, follow live cursors, and watch edits appear within seconds.

4 min read

Ask AI questions about drawings, selected regions, measurements, quotes, and takeoff context.

5 min read

Create count markup suggestions from AI-detected drawing items and review them before using totals.

5 min read

Troubleshoot failed uploads, unsupported files, network interruptions, and large drawing files.

5 min read

Fix common causes of incorrect measurement values, including missing scale and mixed-scale drawings.

5 min read

Understand why drawing text search may not find matches on scanned or image-based PDFs.

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Troubleshoot export preview errors for drawing PDFs and BoQ PDFs.

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Restore hidden sidebar panels and workspace panes such as Markup List, Search, Chat, and BoQ.

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Improve performance when large, scanned, or complex drawings render slowly in the browser.

5 min read

Understand what happens when a trial ends or a payment lapses: locks, watermarks, and how to restore access.

4 min read

Review AI-assisted drawing answers, detections, counts, and quote suggestions before relying on them.

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