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title: 2026-06-05 09:48:37
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# 2026-06-05 09:48:37

## Accubid Reverse Takeoff

I have mixed feelings
about using negative or "reverse" takeoffs
in [[accubid|Accubid]].

### Pros

Pros as an alternative to simply changing existing counts.

With more than one revision,
it quickly becomes difficult to have confidence in count changes.

### Cons

This note specifically concerns using negative quantities
to cancel out positive for breakdown purposes,
which I suspect is the only practical purpose for them.
Net negative quantities cause all kinds of problems.
There is no link from the positive to the negative,
so any change to the former must be repeated for the latter.

With more than one revision,
determining net takeoff quickly becomes unwieldy.

LiveCount "un-reverses" reverse takeoffs
when adding or deleting from an existing run,
which is not intuitive or well known.