Visual Takeoff for Contractors: Trace Lines to Plans

See the exact plan sheet behind every AI estimate line, so you can check the number before you bid

Every line BuildCrux's AI puts on an estimate remembers where it came from. Each line carries the plan-set page it was read off of, so you click a "Source" chip and the exact sheet opens in a viewer, rendered from your original PDF. The viewer names the sheet at the top ("Sheet A-13 — Left Wing Plans") and shows chips for the rooms the takeoff pulled from that page, so you know what you are looking at without hunting. On clean vector CAD drawings the viewer locks a highlight onto the drawing's own printed label text, so the box sits right on "KING 2 LEFT" or "322 SF" instead of a guess. On scanned or raster sets there is no text to lock onto, so the highlight is an approximate area the AI pinpoints for that one line, and the caption tells you plainly which kind you are looking at. You can zoom in up to 400% to read dimensions and fine print, and it works both on the AI takeoff view and on the formal estimate detail page. Your plans stay private the whole time. The viewer pulls each sheet through a short-lived signed link and only workspace members can open it.