Takeoff Desk
Built in Rust. Super fast. Bluebeam-style quantity takeoff with a built-in AI agent.
⚡ Native Rust, no browser, no Electron. An 859-page, 708 MB drawing set opens in 21 ms.
A full sheet renders in ~50 ms at 200 DPI, and zoomed regions in ~15 ms. PDF layers switch
in under 1 ms. The whole app is a 47 MB download and uses about 110 MB of memory with a
drawing open.
Bluebeam-style quantity takeoff with a built-in AI agent. Open a drawing set, then count,
measure and mark it up. Ask an agent to do the same on the sheet in front of you: it looks, sets
the scale, counts symbols, measures runs, reads title blocks, and checks its own work. It runs on
a local model on your machine, or on cloud models if you sign in to
construction.live.
▶ Watch the 74-second launch film (1080p).
Download:
These links always point at the newest version.
- Takeoff:
- Counts, lengths, perimeters, areas with cutouts, volumes and angles.
- Scale presets, calibration and viewports.
- Snapping to the drawing's own lines, and Follow Line.
- Items with colors, hatches, unit costs and a Tool Chest.
- Markups:
- Text, callouts, clouds, shapes, arrows, highlight, pen and stamps.
- A Bluebeam-style Markups List with custom columns and CSV and Excel export.
- PDF tools:
- Split, merge, extract, insert, rotate, delete and reorder pages. The takeoff follows its
pages.
- Compare revisions, layers, text search and bookmarks.
- Slip-sheet a new revision over the old sheets (matched by sheet number, takeoff carried
across, old pages kept for Compare), and group drawings into sets.
- Flattened marked-up PDF export.
- AI agent:
- Drawing tools, plus a shell in one workspace folder you choose (or turn off). Overlays of
SVG, images or HTML on the sheet. You review everything it adds.
- Local models through llama.cpp, with a memory check before loading. Cloud models through
construction.live. Your own Claude Code or Codex subscription. Or any OpenAI-compatible
endpoint.
- For other tools:
- The
takeoff CLI.
- An MCP server, so Claude Desktop or Cursor can work a drawing.
- A Claude Code plugin:
/plugin marketplace add constructionlive/takeoffbeam, then
/plugin install takeoff-beam@takeoffbeam. See claude-plugin.
- Native and small:
- Rust, egui and pdfium. A 46 MB macOS download.
- An 859-page set opens in 21 ms, and a full sheet renders in about 50 ms.
- Plain files: the takeoff is
plan.pdf.takeoff.json next to the PDF, compatible with
construction.live.
Get it
- macOS (Apple silicon): Takeoff-Desk-arm64.dmg, signed and notarized by Neuratwin Inc.
- Windows 10/11 (x64): Takeoff-Desk-x64-setup.exe. Not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen asks first (More info → Run anyway). Installs for everyone or only for you; only-for-you needs no admin rights. Silent:
/S /CurrentUser.
- From source:
scripts/fetch-pdfium.sh && cargo run --release -p takeoff-app.
See the docs:
Crates
| Crate | |
|---|
takeoff-core | Data model, geometry, numbering, snapping, coordinate dialects, undo, CSV and Excel, sidecar |
takeoff-pdf | pdfium rendering, text, layers, vectors, page tools, burn-in, flattened export |
takeoff-models | GGUF reader, memory-fit check, model catalog, downloads, llama-server |
takeoff-cloud | construction.live sign-in and cloud models |
takeoff-agent | The agent loop and drawing tools |
takeoff-app | The desktop app |
takeoff-cli | takeoff CLI + MCP server |
License
Apache License 2.0; see LICENSE. If you redistribute Takeoff Desk or something built
from it, keep the NOTICE file with it (License §4(d)) so construction.live is credited.
Third-party components:
- pdfium (BSD-3)
- Inter (SIL OFL 1.1), in
assets/fonts
- Lucide icons (ISC), in
assets/fonts
- llama.cpp (MIT), bundled in release builds
