Material Takeoff by BKJ Automation automates the most time-consuming part of early-stage cost estimating in Autodesk® Revit®. Instead of manually cataloging every wall, floor, ceiling, and finish element and cross-referencing a cost database by hand, Material Takeoff does it for you — collecting all elements from your model, mapping their materials to the RSMeans 2025 cost database, and exporting a complete, formatted Bill of Materials with one click.

Whether you are preparing a schematic estimate, a value engineering report, or a construction budget, Material Takeoff gives you accurate material quantities and costs directly from your Revit model — without leaving Revit and without manual data entry.

 

Key Features:

- Automatically collects Wall, Floor, Ceiling, and Finish elements from the active model

- Maps materials to the RSMeans 2025 construction cost database

- Exports a formatted Bill of Materials to PDF or CSV

- By Room breakdown — view and isolate material quantities per room

- Apply markup % and overhead % adjustments directly in the interface

- Highlight elements in the Revit model from within the takeoff window

- Filter by current selection or include linked models

- Savings threshold — flag line items where value engineering savings exceed your target

- Snapshot and change report — compare two model states to track cost changes over time

- Session-cached entitlement check — no slowdown on repeated use

 

Who It's For:

Material Takeoff is built for architects, project managers, estimators, and BIM coordinators who need fast, reliable material quantities and cost estimates directly from a Revit model. It is especially valuable during schematic design and design development, when rapid cost feedback drives key project decisions.

 

Workflow:

1. Open your Revit project and click Material Takeoff on the Add-Ins tab.

2. The tool automatically scans all walls, floors, ceilings, and finishes in the model.

3. Materials are matched against the RSMeans 2025 database and unit costs are applied.

4. Review the Bill of Materials, apply markup and overhead percentages, and filter by room.

5. Export to PDF for client presentations or CSV for further analysis in Excel.

 

Developed by BKJ Automation.