Tutorials for FloorEstimate Pro V5 Estimating Software

Flash Video Tutorials

• Menu, tool bar and task panel functions

• Select material, create rooms and attach doors and windows

• Quick layout and estimate

• Draw room with doorway and window
• Create curved wall
• Freedraw a room
• Four freedraw tricks
• Connect two rooms with doorway
• Delete and undelete rooms
• Three ways of selecting rooms
• Deactivate and activate rooms
• Show room area and perimeter
• Zoom in and Zoom out floor plan
• Change material of selected rooms

• Create carpet borders
• Create island inside a room
• Assign material to walls
• Create multi level house layout
• Merge two rooms
• Save custom room shape as template and load saved room shape into drawing panel

• Material layout button (automatic), vertical and horizontal layout for carpet and vinyl
• Switch seam side
• Switch layout direction
• Drag and move seams
• delete a seam
• Place length seam and T-seam
• Match connected rooms with pattern carpet
• Match connected rooms with tile
• Set pattern start from room center
• Shifting tile grid layout while setting pattern start
• Create custom tile pattern with Tile Editor
• Apply predefined tile pattern to a room

• Start proposal worksheet
• Edit quantity, sales price, markup, taxes
• Add main material and line items manually
• Calculate total job cost, markup and profit
• Print job proposal, sales order, or invoice
• Export to QuickBooks estimates

• Customer database
• Material database
• System settings
• Measurement system
• Material layout
• User Information
• Default room settings
• Font settings
• Project directory settings

• Product overview (3 min)
• Blueprint takeoff with GTCO digitizer (5 min)
• Takeoff estimating with PDF drawings (5 min)
• Takeoff estimating with AutoCAD DXF & DWG drawings (3 min)
• Takeoff estimating with scanned images (jpg, gif, bmp, etc.) (3 min)