Plan sets in. Opening schedules out.

BidUnity Plans reads architectural plan sets (PDF) for glazing and door contractors and extracts the openings: storefront, curtain wall, windows, and doors, with their dimensions, lite layouts, glass types, hardware sets, and design pressures. Estimators bid from a schedule instead of reading every sheet by hand.

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Upload the plan set

Create a job, add the architectural PDFs, and start an analysis. The app indexes every sheet and finds the elevations, plans, details, and schedules that matter for glazing.

Every opening, characterized

Each opening type is identified and measured: overall size, lite grid and mullion spacing, door leaves with hand and hardware, and the glass mark for each lite. Window, door, hardware, and glass schedules are transcribed verbatim from the sheets.

Bid-ready inputs

Design pressures come from the structural wind tables, matched to each opening's zone and size. Dimensions carry the sheet reference they were read from, so anything questionable can be checked against the plans.

Part of the BidUnity family

BidUnity (app.bidunity.com) is the bid-proposal product for glazing contractors. BidUnity Plans is a complementary app: it handles the plan reading, so what comes out of a plan set can feed a proposal instead of a notepad.

Plan analysis is being integrated into BidUnity itself, so that a BidUnity user can upload a plan set to a project and get a draft proposal to review. That work is in progress. Until it ships, BidUnity Plans is where the extraction runs and where the results are read.