Piping take-off guides and resources
Guides, comparisons, a free template and a glossary for estimators who price piping from a Navisworks model. Each one says where Metriq MTO helps and where it stops.
Navisworks take-off
Getting a defensible take-off out of the model you were given, and checking it.
- Navisworks piping takeoff: an MTO from the NWD
What Quantification does well, where the manual work is, what the model must publish, and how to check any take-off.
- How to count pipe fittings and valves in a Navisworks model
Counts by line and size you can defend, and why two tools disagree on the same model.
- Why Navisworks shows zero length for pipes
Find the missing length property, map it, or ask the modeller for it.
- Duplicate pipes in a federated Navisworks model
How a federation counts the same pipe twice, and how to keep the copies out of the price.
- Plant 3D piping MTO when you only have the NWD
What survives the export, and the four checks before you price from it.
- Comparing piping quantities between model revisions
Price what changed, not the whole model again, and spot the traps that fake a change.
- How to export Navisworks properties to Excel
Getting model properties out of Navisworks and into a spreadsheet, and what to check once they are there.
Measuring and pricing
From the quantities to the price: the rules of measurement and the pricing tool.
- Measuring pipework under NRM2: from a piping MTO to work section 38
Where the pipework, fittings, valves and supports of a piping MTO sit in NRM2 work section 38.
- From a model MTO to Trimble Estimation MEP
Getting an Excel MTO into your pricing tool, column by column.
Comparisons
Side by side, with the cases where the other route is the better fit.
- Navisworks Quantification vs Metriq MTO for piping
Set-up, duplicates, output and cost side by side, when Quantification is the better fit, and the alternatives to it.
- Comparing piping takeoff software: model, isometric, PDF or outsourced?
Which approach fits the file you actually have, with each vendor’s published facts.
Templates and reference
Files and definitions to work from.
- Piping MTO Excel template
A free, blank line-based MTO workbook with the columns estimators price from, and a filled example from the sample plant.
- Piping take-off glossary
46 terms: MTO, BOM and BoQ, NWD, NWC and NWF, nominal size, schedule, flange types and more, in plain words.
- Sample take-off: Excel and PDF
A finished workbook and report from a sample plant, with synthetic numbers, to see before you send a model.
Questions about a model of your own? Send it before you buy and we will check it.