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I frequently have ideas of automation for construction-estimating, but I am often discouraged to the point of abandoning them when considering the possibility that their use may not be permitted because they can not be implemented with existing processes and tools.
For example, measuring unit subfeeds manually in LiveCount is a monotonous and labor intensive activity that could, as a single task, be automated very simply with a search algorithm like A*. Such a program could also calculate voltage drop.
I think, though, I may have been unfair to my employers (current and previous). Innovative methods will always be bottlenecked by accubid's strict input pattern, but there are still opportunities for improvement that can comply with existing expectations of evidence.
For the unit subfeeds example,
a program could be made to draw the paths
with colors by cable type
and a legend with counts and total lengths,
writing the markup to PDF or TIFF
which could be uploaded to Trimble Connect
and used as the Drawing
for takeoffs with lot Length and Count.