Custom Estimating Transfers

Problem

How do I transfer from HE/HR to a custom Estimator in MacNail construction estimating software?

Diagnosis

cells A21 to A23 in the transfer manager 3.2 contain the names of the estimators to be used for the three buttons on the HE/HR output card. The user can type the name of his custom estimator into one of the three cells. The defaults are "MacNail Estimator", "CSI Estimator", "Short MacNail Estimator".

Solution

This approach will transfer specs to all kinds of estimators, since it is done by item code. Missing items will be skipped however.
if the user has significantly customized the dimensions section of the estimator, the transfer could go wrong. But this will happen only rarely; users savvy enough to customize dimensions won't be using the Hypers anyway before using MacNail construction estimating software.

Comments

Entered 1/20/93 by Vinay. Updated 11/17/2010.