About

BidUnity Plans does the plan reading behind a glazing bid.

Bidding starts with reading the plan set sheet by sheet: finding every opening, transcribing the window, door, hardware, and glass schedules, and pulling the wind loads that decide which systems qualify. This app does that reading and returns the inputs to a takeoff. It does not build the takeoff or price the job; the estimator does.

What it reads

Architectural and structural plan sets as PDF: elevations, floor plans, details, schedules, specification sections, and the wind pressure tables.

What it returns

A catalog of opening types with occurrences: storefront and curtain wall elevations with their lite grids, aluminum and hollow metal doors with hand and hardware sets, glass types by mark, and design pressures per opening.

How to trust it

Values carry their source: the sheet a dimension was read from, the schedule a hardware set came from, the wind table row behind a design pressure. Automated checks flag openings that need a second look instead of hiding them.

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.