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Subject: software program from architectural CAD program to estimating program
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: paminor1-ga
List Price: $190.00
Posted: 03 Mar 2005 19:41 PST
Expires: 02 Apr 2005 19:41 PST
Question ID: 484417
looking for an off shelf sofware program, and a software development
company that can produce it, that can take the data from an
architectural CAD program, feed it to a construction estimating (take
offs)program (I know of one) giving the cost of the construction project.
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Subject: Re: software program from architectural CAD program to estimating program
From: dreamboat-ga on 03 Mar 2005 20:14 PST
 
Both AutoCad and Excel support Visual Basic for Applications
programming language. You could likely get something of this type done
by http://www.mrexcel.com/graphics.shtml
Subject: Re: software program from architectural CAD program to estimating program
From: andrew777-ga on 08 Mar 2005 09:19 PST
 
I actually have referred a few businesses to this gentleman... He's
definitely got experience in that particular area, and he's a really
down-to-earth guy to talk to. His web site is: http://www.ramaxey.com

As far as his availability and specifics, I'd recommend that you at
least contact him with a solid idea of what you're looking for, and
see what he says.

For reference, here are some of the clients he's done work for in the
past. (I don't think these are mentioned on his site)
 

Fort Worth Tower Inc.               http://www.fwtinc.com/
McKnight & Hosterman Architects     http://www.mcknightgroup.com/index.html
Solution Recovery Services          http://www.solutionrecovery.com/

I'll also mention that I believe he's a published author of a couple
reference books on AutoCAD.

Hope this helps out a bit in your search,

--Andrew

P.S. He's still (to my knowledge) a one-man operation, so his costs
were incredibly low compared to some other full-fledged design firms
that you'll run into.
Subject: Re: software program from architectural CAD program to estimating program
From: paminor1-ga on 09 Mar 2005 07:36 PST
 
Andrew777 - http://www.ramaxey.com is not coming up.  pls. send link again.
Realy appreciate all the info.
Subject: Re: software program from architectural CAD program to estimating program
From: andrew777-ga on 09 Mar 2005 17:41 PST
 
Link seems to work for me... Hmmm... Go figure.  :-S

Well, I have 2 email addresses for Randy, but I'd rather not post them
here on Google without his direct consent, but I have no problem
sending them to you via email. My email is aghast@gmail.com. Let me
know if you want them...

--Andrew
Subject: Re: software program from architectural CAD program to estimating program
From: deezeal-ga on 10 Mar 2005 15:36 PST
 
I'm not sure if BID2WIN can take CAD Drawings and repurpose them for
estimating needs but I do know that MC2's ICE 2000 can.  Hope that
helps.

http://www.mc2-ice.com
http://www.bid2win.com

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