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Built one usable slice at a time.

Every slice ships as an installer with a written test checklist, and is run on real plan sets before the next one starts. Everything past the current slice is Coming. The order can change, and dates are announced when they're real.

  1. First takeoff Done

    • PDF import, fast pan and zoom, background pre-render
    • Auto Scale, levels and groups
    • Linear, area and count tools with cutouts
    • Continuous save, one folder per job, marked-up printing

  2. Properties, formulas, parts and tools Done

    • Unit-aware formulas and nested parts
    • The Tool Designer and its form designer
    • Tool libraries, the Material Library and the DimSum Defaults library
    • Tool updates reaching the jobs that placed them
    • System Settings

  3. Advanced Parts and reports Done

    • Advanced Parts that match a SKU by filters
    • The Reports tab: print, PDF and CSV
    • The Report Designer: bands, grouping, combining, calculated columns, totals, fonts

  4. Canvas essentials and plan markup Done

    • Line side, extended cursor lines, page scale regions
    • Split view, pop-out windows, Overlay and Align, page tools
    • Dimension Lines, highlights, text, notes, clouds and stamps
    • The label designer

  5. Advanced tools, walls and assemblies Building now

    • The Joist and Beam tools and Attach to beam (built), with rim board and sheathing
    • Bearing joints at a beam below: bypass, butt, lap, sister, cantilever
    • The Wall tool: framed, metal stud, concrete and CMU, and what they sit on
    • Openings, posts and beam pockets; walls meeting beams and joists
    • Assemblies, Tool Packs and first-run setup

  6. Building templates, then 3D Coming

    • Building templates and the level editor
    • A live 3D view of the takeoff by level
    • A free desktop viewer for sending 3D views

  7. Reports and exports Coming

    • A proposal template and report branding
    • Export profiles for point-of-sale and ERP imports
    • Marked-Up Plan legends, info boxes and print layers

  8. Extraction and engineered layouts Coming

    • Pick lines from the PDF, read window and door schedules
    • OCR for scanned plans
    • Truss and I-joist layout overlays

  9. Release 1.0 Coming

    • Accounts and sign-in, licensing, the trial and the account portal
    • Signed installers and automatic updates, Stable and Beta
    • macOS and Linux verified

  10. With accounts, after 1.0 Coming

    • Cloud sync of jobs, tools, reports and settings
    • The web remote session into your own DimSum
    • The Workspace defaults folder and a Share button on everything
    • A view-only viewer for downloaded data

Not on the roadmap

Automatic AI takeoff. DimSum is built to make an estimator faster, not to guess for them.