BidCraft Tile
BidCraftTile
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2026-09-22

The sizes the drawings read now show on the surfaces

A surface with a size waiting says so on its own tile, with a Use button to take it — and the pile of near-identical "use that?" questions is now one row.

The sizes the drawings read now show on the surfaces

A builder's package gets read, sizes come off it, and none of those sizes get written into your bid until you say so. That part is right and it isn't changing — a figure lifted off a drawing can be out by a long way, and a bid built on one nobody checked is worse than a bid with a gap in it.

What was wrong was where those sizes lived: nowhere except a question. So a room card could be sitting on a full set of sizes, and every surface on it still said size?. On a fresh read of a twenty-room house that's twenty-one questions saying almost the same sentence, and not a single number visible anywhere on the page.

The number is on the tile

Now a surface that has a size waiting says so, right under its name:

  • ~114.2 sq ft suggested — read off dimensions the sheet printed.
  • ~6.3 sq ft rough read — measured off the drawn shape because nothing was printed. A starting point, not a measurement.
  • 1 suggested — a niche or a bench the shower views drew. That's a count of work, not extra area; the tile on it is already inside the shower-wall figure.

It's written in dashed terracotta — the same way every unknown on a room card is written — so it can't be mistaken for a number you've agreed to. Nothing is priced off it until you take it.

Beside it is Use. One tap makes that figure yours, exactly as if you'd typed it. Tapping the tile itself still opens the surface to edit, same as always.

Open the surface and you can see the working

The edit sheet shows the same size above the box you'd otherwise type in — and under it, what the sheet actually printed, view by view:

24'-0" × 5'-0" TO TOP OF SLABSPLASH · 36" × 120"

An elevation total is a sum across walls, and a sum is only worth trusting if you can see what went into it. If one of those runs is a wall you're not tiling, you'll spot it in a second. Use this takes the figure; typing your own overrides it and wins from then on.

One row instead of twenty-one questions

The sizes used to ask one at a time, each as its own card in the checks. They're all the same decision — do the drawings' sizes look right? — so they now sit at the top of the checks as a single row:

12 sizes came off the drawings — check them before you price them · Review 12 plan sizes

That opens the plan sizes sheet, where every surface is listed with how its size was read and the crop it came off, and you can accept the lot in one go. The row counts as one thing waiting on you everywhere a count appears — the checks badge, the plans card's status line, the "checks still open" note on the draft button — so the page stops shouting twenty-one at you about one decision.

The row shrinks and disappears as sizes get accepted, from any direction: the sheet, the Use button on a tile, or the question itself.

A size you accept stays accepted

There was a rough edge here worth naming. Taking a size from a question card settled the surface but didn't always close the question behind it — so the same offer could survive on the record and come back on a later read.

All three ways of accepting now do the same thing: the figure lands as yours, in its own unit (square feet for an area, a count for a niche), and the question is retired for good. Re-read the documents later and it won't be offered again.