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Lighting takeoff guides
A lighting takeoff is four jobs: get the fixture types off the schedule, count every fixture on the drawings, survive the revision, and hand a clean count to whoever writes the quote. Each guide below covers one of them, with the exact steps in LuxPDF.
Count light fixtures on PDF drawingsCount every light fixture on a PDF drawing set with one click per fixture type. LuxPDF finds each type tag and places a count marker on it.Parse a lighting fixture schedule from a PDFTurn the lighting fixture schedule in your PDF into a clean table of types, makers and part numbers without retyping it. Works on scanned sheets too.Update a lighting takeoff when revised drawings come inWhen the addendum drops, move your lighting takeoff onto the revised drawings, see every change clouded, and review each one instead of recounting.Compare two revisions of a lighting fixture scheduleSee every added, removed and changed fixture type between two revisions of a lighting schedule, cell by cell, and check what it does to your quote.Export a lighting takeoff to ExcelExport your lighting fixture count to an Excel workbook organized by type, sheet and area, ready to paste into a quote. Excluded markers stay out.Measure linear lighting runs on PDF drawingsMeasure strip, cove and slot lighting runs on PDF drawings at scale. LuxPDF walks you through each linear fixture and puts the lengths in your takeoff.
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