Cost Estimator

jaktavia

Is there a plugin, other than the free cost estimator, that allows you to continually keep track of each material with a price per square foot? With the free estimator that sketchup comes with, you have to explode your entire model for it to work and continually check it if you change something.

Is there a plugin that continually keeps track of the square footage per material and can you assign a price per square foot to a material that will update real time? Basically an excel spreadsheet that continually updates itself.

Thank you.

Jim

Jaktavia,

There is no plugin like the one you describe that I know of. It's a good idea and maybe someone will pick on the request.

TIG

ComponentReporter+ does some of what you want - it will report areas of materials etc. It could be tweaked to report raeas of materials into a csv file. You'd need to run it to get the updated list. Yiou then need to link the csv file into an xls spreadsheet, where you can apply formatting and further calcualtions on costs etc... The first bit can be done through Ruby. The second bit is a Excel based operation.

jaktavia

TIG, would this be something that you could accomplish? I'm not savvy enough to create these kinds of things. I wasn't actually talking about exporting this information to excel, but just compute and keep track of this information within sketchup. Running an update is fine as well just as long as the information that is assigned to a material, is kept for each update.

Thanks for getting back to me. TIG, if this isn't something you could do, is there someone you know that could?

Regards,

Jaktavia

TIG

@unknownuser said:

TIG, would this be something that you could accomplish? I'm not savvy enough to create these kinds of things. I wasn't actually talking about exporting this information to excel, but just compute and keep track of this information within sketchup. Running an update is fine as well just as long as the information that is assigned to a material, is kept for each update.

Thanks for getting back to me. TIG, if this isn't something you could do, is there someone you know that could?

Regards,

Jaktavia

I'm pretty busy at the moment... If you write a step by step description of what you want to do, sent me it in a PM and I'll try and look at it - no promises though.