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title: Optimal Estimating Patterns
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# Optimal Estimating Patterns

[[construction-estimating-software]] consistently fails to innovate
on the stale patterns developed for marginally similar applications decades ago.

## More Optimal Patterns

> [!note]
> Note that while the patterns described below
> _are_ more optimal than those of traditional applications,
> the bigger problem with such applications
> is their suboptimal implementation of their patterns.
> If you could just do what they're trying to do correctly,
> you probably wouldn't need all these optimizations anyway.

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Count-based takeoff speed increases with count.

Optimizing the takeoff process means:

* _Minimizing_ the need for information outside of drawings
* _Maximizing_ organizational consistency

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