Trimble Estimation Desktop

Trimble Estimation Desktop is a full-featured estimating solution tailored to the needs of MEP contractors. Create professional estimates with speed and accuracy.

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Estimate with confidence

Tailored with capabilities designed specifically for your trade – whether it's electrical, mechanical or plumbing.
Produce professional estimates and reports and perform detailed analysis quickly and easily.
With connected digital takeoff and integrated pricing, you'll have everything you need for your estimate in one place.
Boost accuracy with job-specific assemblies, customizable labor hours and real-time, up-to-date material pricing.

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Enhanced estimating

Essential tools to create estimates faster and more accurately while improving workflows across your pre-construction process.

Faster estimates

Produce detailed estimates up to 10 times faster than using manual methods and spreadsheets.

Save steps with connected takeoff

With total connectivity, there's no need to import or export between the estimate and digital takeoff saving you extra steps and time.

Accurate pricing

Ensure you put the best possible pricing into your bid with integrated pricing tools, including TRA-SER integration.

Worry-free IT environment

Optionally available as a cloud-hosted solution. We take care of the upgrades, maintenance and backups. You focus on profitably executing projects.

Job-specific assemblies

Dynamic assemblies can be used to easily customize takeoffs. Copy and save job-specific assemblies to access and reuse for other areas of the job.

Viewpoint integration

Integrates with both Spectrum and Vista construction management software suites.

Quick assembly tools

Quick assembly tools designed especially for lighting fixtures, receptacles, switches and more help estimators perform more detailed takeoffs.

Digital takeoff

Streamlined takeoff gives a new level of control and productivity.

Live connection to the estimate

With a live connection to the estimate, your estimate is updated as you perform takeoff.

Manage sheet revisions

Easily compare plan revisions to capitalize on every change order and maximize profit.

Shape recognition

Shape recognition automates quantity counts by searching plans and annotating symbols and shapes providing fast and accurate quantity counting.

Automatic fittings

Digital Takeoff automatically inserts 90s, 45s, and tees along with continuous lines and drops/risers.

Copy/paste between multiple drawings

Copy/paste saves you from having to retrace when working on a project with multiple identical structures.

Custom views

Quickly look up schedules and notes with custom views.

Specification-driven takeoff

Pick a specification or pressure class to measure out a duct run and have everything automatically selected for you.

Material-driven takeoff

Material-driven takeoff makes it quick and easy to select size and type of material to apply a measured, counted, or calculated quantity/length.

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PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS

Perfect companions to Trimble Estimation Desktop

TRA-SER is pricing software that allows users to easily import up-to-date pricing data and product information directly into most major estimating systems.

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