Takeoff is here for a specific reason
People search “MEP takeoff software” when they want quantities off mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings. Pipe, duct, gear, fixtures. Count, measure, write it down. That job has a long list of real products. STACK is one. McCormick is one. FastEST is one. Trimble AutoBid is one. This page is not a tour of that aisle.
Takeoff is in ArosBid because ArosBid includes takeoff and estimate and replaces Trimble AutoBid. If we only ran the bid after someone else’s quantities, this URL would be dishonest. We do not sell that story. The walkthrough is the proof that takeoff is in the product. This page does not invent a takeoff screen, a dashboard, or a measurement UI we have not shown you.
If your question is the estimating seat — labor, equipment, the number, the bid after — start at MEP estimating software. If your question is the named AutoBid comparison, start at vs AutoBid. This page stays on why takeoff itself sits here, and on what it is not.
MEP drawings. Not a GC takeoff of the building.
Mechanical takeoff reads M-series sheets and Division 23. Electrical reads E-series and Division 26, plus the low-voltage seam. Plumbing reads P-series and Division 22, plus the civil line that moves from job to job. Those are trade quantities. They are not a general contractor rolling up every division into a coverage dashboard.
This URL is MEP only. Roofing NDL, uplift, and tear-off live on roofing. Delegated connections and miscellaneous metals live on steel. They are trade desks on the same product. They are not this search.
Procore, BuildingConnected, SmartBid, PlanHub, Dodge, and ConstructConnect are invite or document sources. They can connect. They do not take off your duct. Confusing a plan room with takeoff software is how this SERP gets noisy. We will not add to that noise by pretending we are a bid board.
Explicitly not a STACK replacement
STACK is another takeoff tool in the market. Estimators search it next to MEP takeoff because STACK is good at being found there. We name it so the page is honest about the neighborhood. We do not claim STACK. We do not write vs-STACK. We do not write vs-Autodesk Takeoff. Autodesk Construction Cloud is a document source. McCormick and FastEST are other takeoff tools in the market. Same rule.
The displace target on this site is Trimble AutoBid. Takeoff and estimate included. The current Trimble MEP estimating product is Trimble Estimation MEP. That name belongs on the MEP estimating hub and on vs AutoBid. This page mentions it once so a reader who arrived from a Trimble query is not stranded. Replacement language stays AutoBid.
If AutoBid is the seat you actually run, the combined job — takeoff plus estimate — is takeoff and estimating software. That URL exists because AutoBid’s published job is both, not takeoff alone.
Quantities are not the bid
A correct takeoff can still become a wrong bid. The front end can disqualify you after the duct is counted. A spec-versus-drawing conflict can change the machine you just quantified. A vendor quote can exclude startup on equipment you already carried. An addendum can revise a schedule after the hours are spent. Those are not takeoff bugs. They are why takeoff in ArosBid sits on the same pursuit as the rest of the cycle.
Document review cites the set, front end included. That category is AI tender review. Bid/no-bid can refuse more hours if the invitation is a bad fit. Vendor RFQs should not go out on a superseded package. Missed addenda is the inbound log. Leveling is the sheet when commercial quotes return. None of that is a second takeoff. It is the bid after the quantities exist.
This page does not retell the industry traps. Mechanical equipment schedules live on mechanical. One-line versus feeder lives on electrical. Fixture schedule versus spec lives on plumbing. Takeoff is how those sheets become counts. The trade pages are what those counts are for.
What a trade takeoff actually has to survive
MEP takeoff is not a single measurement type. Mechanical is equipment, duct, and pipe, plus accessories the schedule forgot. Electrical is feeders, gear, and devices, plus temporary power hiding in Division 01. Plumbing is fixtures and pipe, plus the five-foot line that is a property line in the spec. A takeoff seat that cannot stay attached to those documents when addendum 3 revises a schedule is a count of a set that no longer exists.
That is why takeoff in ArosBid is not a download. It sits on the pursuit next to review and the addendum log. You can disagree with a quantity. You should not have to wonder which revision the quantity was taken from. The walkthrough is where that attachment is shown. This page will not diagram a UI we have not shown.
What we will not invent on a takeoff URL
No customer names. No win rates. No “hours saved on takeoff” percentage. No AutoBid crash list. No hidden-fee story. No product screenshot that is not already on this site. The photographs on this page are existing ranking-page stills. Named pursuits, including Riverside Office Tower, are fictional demo data and labeled as such.
Money elsewhere in the cycle is deterministic integer-cent code. Isolated instance. Microsoft Entra ID. During training, nothing leaves without a recorded human approval. Takeoff does not send mail. The RFQ that uses those quantities does, and it waits.
The role page for the person doing this work is for estimators. The audience split from GC bid software is trade contractor bid software. Book a live demo if you want to see takeoff and estimate on the same desk, not a paragraph about a screen we have not shown.
