Blueprint Crusher User Guide

Blueprint Crusher helps quantity surveyors and estimators go from a stack of drawings and supplier price sheets to a priced, exportable estimate — fast.

This guide is organised around how you actually use the product.

Start here

• Quickstart — the 10-minute path: import a price sheet, build an assembly, do a takeoff, export to Excel.
• Glossary — the vocabulary used throughout the app: Product, Price, Rate, Assembly, Takeoff, Estimate.
• How it all fits together — the data flow from price sheet to Excel export.

By area of the app

• Rate Library — products, prices, suppliers, and importing price sheets.
• Assemblies — recipes that combine products into composite rates.
• Takeoff — measuring quantities from drawings.
• Estimates — pricing the schedule of work and exporting to Excel.

Reference

• Expression syntax — what you can type in an assembly’s quantity field.
• Troubleshooting — common issues with imports, takeoff, and rates.

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