AI Plan Takeoff · Civil
Drop your civil plan set and Caliche reads the engineer’s labeled callouts off each scaled sheet — pipe by size, material, and scope; structures by the each — and auto-fills the quantities. Every one lands as a click-to-verify pin right on the plan, so you check the drawing, not a spreadsheet. Confirm, and it prices the whole job against real Texas bids before the bid schedule even exists.
The takeoff engine
The engine reads the full set the way the engineer labeled it — every LF of pipe by size, material, and scope, every EA structure — and auto-fills the quantities. Each one gets a pin on the exact spot it came from, so verifying is a click on the plan, not a hunt through the sheets. You confirm the numbers; you never take them on faith.
The difference
PlanSwift, Bluebeam, AGTEK — they hand you a quantity list and leave the pricing to you and a cost book. Caliche takes the quantities you confirm and prices every line against real Texas bids the moment you hit Confirm & Price — the same priced workbook you'd get from dropping in a bid schedule, straight from the drawings.
▸ The second you hit Confirm & Price
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Civil trade categories
PDF / DXF
AutoCAD export formats
100MB
Max plan set size
1.6 million+
TX prices to land on
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Export your plan set as a PDF or DXF from AutoCAD or Civil 3D — up to 100MB. Caliche reads every sheet’s callouts: civil, utility, paving, drainage, irrigation, landscape. Vector CAD exports (PDF/DXF) get the deepest read with measured geometry; scanned/raster sheets are read for their labeled callouts.
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Choose which civil trades to extract. Caliche scans each relevant sheet and identifies items, quantities, and units for each category you select.
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Extracted quantities land in a reviewable list. Adjust anything inline, then confirm to run pricing — every item priced against real TX bid data.
Plan View · manual override
The read handles the labeled quantities. For everything else — an unlabeled run, an area you want to scale by hand, a number you want to prove yourself — Plan View is a full markup canvas on the same plan. Lock the scale once — auto-detected on CAD exports, or set it by hand with a two-click calibrate on scanned sheets — draw a line for linear feet or a polygon for square feet, cycle every sheet without leaving the page. It’s the manual fallback behind the automated takeoff, not the work you start with.
Draw a line for linear feet, a polygon for square feet — directly on the sheet.
Lock the scale once — auto-detected on CAD exports, or set it by hand with a two-click calibrate on scanned sheets — and every measurement converts to real-world units.
Cycle the full plan set — water, sewer, storm, paving — without leaving the page.
The automated read fills the labeled quantities; this is where you check them against the drawing and draw in anything by hand.
Select the trades relevant to your job. Caliche extracts only what you need.
Caliche reads the labeled callouts straight off each scaled sheet — the LF of pipe and the EA structures the engineer already wrote on the plan — and fills them in. It’s reading the drawing’s own labels, not guessing at geometry.
18" HDPE storm and 8" PVC sanitary don’t land in the same bucket. Caliche separates pipe by size, material, and scope so the quantity that fills in is the one you’d actually bid — not a lump “pipe” total.
Every auto-filled quantity drops a pin on the exact spot it came from. Click it, see the callout on the plan, confirm or correct — your eyes on the drawing, not on faith.
Run the entire plan set at once, or re-run a single sheet when a revision lands. Quantities land in a review queue tagged to the sheet they came from.
Anything the read missed or you want to draw yourself, take to the Plan View canvas — measure length and area by hand, scale-locked, on the same plan. The manual tool is there when you want it, not the thing you start with.
Confirmed quantities flow into the pricing engine with no re-entry — takeoff to a bid priced against real Texas bids, one path.
14-day free trial, no card. Upload a real plan set and watch Caliche read the callouts and pin the quantities before you pay anything.
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