Countfire

Thanks for your great review Andrew!

It's great to hear that you find Countfire intuitive and simple to use.

It would have been great to be around 30 years ago so we could have been helping estimators increase their speed and accuracy for longer – if only we had a time machine 😄

You're right – we are confident that Countfire will help estimators speed up their takeoff and estimating process.

We also want our users to get the most out of the software, so we offer free full online training and live support to all of our users – from free trial through to our legacy customers, as we are consistently releasing new features.

Thanks so much Craig. Thrilled to hear Countfire has sped up what you're able to deliver!

With symbols not importing correctly, that's related to the information contained within PDFs and how it's made ready to work on within Countfire.

This is always a little tricky as PDFs can (and do!) contain virtually anything, however, we recently completed a major overhaul of this system and the results are significantly improved.

With complex symbols, that's related to how many parts each symbol is drawn with.

Again, it's a little tricky, because we don't have control over how these symbols are drawn originally, but there are a couple of tricks available to help!

The first is to use the in-app editor to simplify these complex symbols down to just the parts that matter – improving automatic counting in the process.

The second is to fire us a quick message in-app, we can take a look at your specific project and often make tweaks to improve things.

Really appreciate the review Kevin.

It's great you find Countfire easy to use and our support team are always happy to help 😊

I see what you mean, it would be helpful to quickly check quantities in-app. There is a feature request for this, I have added your vote towards it and you will receive progress updates - so it's definitely on our radar!

The overlay function allows you to see different drawings on top of each other, which is helpful when you need to see how different services / disciplines interact - for example overlaying a containment drawing onto your power drawing to help you visualise containment routes.

To help you create zones across different drawings I'd recommend using our floorplan feature - this allows you to 'stitch' multiple drawings together to view the floor as a whole rather than as individual drawings.

I'll reach out directly to arrange a quick training session to run through our overlay, compare and floorplan features.