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Hotkey for visibility of all products

submitted by Lee Cure for Atlanta group (JWW). Hotkey to turn on and off visibility of all products. This is to allow turning off drawn items, quickly to see what is under them in the plan page.
11 months ago in BC Estimator 2 Shipped

Ability to delete all child take off items quickly.

submitted by Lee Cure for Atlanta group Ability to delete all child take off items quickly. Or, at least, be able to multi-select child items in the Takeoff Items window. We copy all the items to another pack to represent duplicate levels. In the ...
11 months ago in BC Estimator 2 Shipped

Timer - Total Editing file work time

submitted by Lee Cure & Atlanta group Include a timer for Total Editing Time and a way to reset it. Below is Word’s properties showing Total Editing Time. All Boise Cascade designers/estimators need this for tracking. In the commercial departm...
11 months ago in BC Estimator 2 Shipped

Put uplift back in the analysis dialogue box

Uplift needs to be clearly visible with your end reactions on the analysis page instead of making us open another tab and go to the member report......
about 6 years ago in BC Calc 1 Shipped

Miter walls

The ability to select two walls and miter them into a corner instead of having to trim each wall.
over 3 years ago in BC Framer 5 Shipped

Include Skew Values as An Attribute For Hangers

Having skew values as attributes will make entering skewed hangers more efficient. There is currently "SKR" and "SKL" available, but no values. To enter a specific value, a user has to create a custom product and create an attribute for each skew....
about 7 years ago in BC Estimator 0 Shipped

Add O.C. spacing to Analysis Summary

It would be very useful to add a column listing O.C. spacing for joist members in the Analysis Summary.
about 7 years ago in BC Calc 1 Shipped

One Click Mirror Layouts

Would like to be able to mirror a layout without having to go into the job, mirror the background, reimport it in and copy/paste the framing and mirror that. We would use this feature alot!
almost 2 years ago in BC Estimator 1 Shipped

User defined loads

Add the ability for users to create their own collection of loads where they can specify the various load components and give it a name, then pick which member types they want it to appear in. The add/edit load dialog then has a new dropdown where...
almost 6 years ago in BC Calc 3 Shipped

The ability to freeze/lock labels with Automatic Positioning

Automatic label positioning has it's benefit, but often (especially with commercial projects), the repositioning gets pretty wonky. If you could freeze/lock an individual label so when you recapture the layout a particular locked label doesn't move.
about 2 years ago in BC Estimator 0 Shipped

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