Twenty tools on the estimate’s Tools tab. Three of them can be opened from a takeoff entry and send their answer back into it.
You are working in a takeoff module. A button there opens the tool with the run already in it. The tool runs, and from inside it you send the result back — and it lands in the entry you came from, because the entry launched it. The tool never reaches into the estimate: the entry hands the tool its context. Values that came back show in green; type over one and it is yours, and the next import leaves it alone.
| Takeoff module | Button in the module | Tool it opens | What comes back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conduit (Feeder / Branch Circuit) | ⚙ Size from Fill | Conduit Fill, with the run’s conductors and conduit type | Send this Fill to Takeoff: the conduit size. Send Recommended or Send As Designed to Takeoff: the conduit size, the phase conductors, the neutral if the run has one, the ground and the number of parallel conduits. |
| Conduit (Feeder / Branch Circuit) | Size from Calculator beside Pull Box Size | Pull Box | Send Pull Box to Takeoff: the box size into Pull Box Size. |
| Every module with a Wireway section: Conduit, Cable, Site, Motor Hookups, Explosion Proof, Devices, Light Fixtures, Misc, Voice/Data, Demolition, Trenching, Cable Tray, Wiremold, Fire Alarm, Security, Welding | Size from Calculator in the Wireway section | Wireway | Send to Wireway (Takeoff): a new wireway line at the recommended size. |
The other way: in the Pull Tension tool, Read from takeoff copies a conduit run from the estimate into the tool and changes nothing in the takeoff; Add to equipment list puts the cable puller and rope on the estimate’s Equipment tab. The other tools are reference and calculation only: the Tools tab says they do not affect the takeoff or the bid.
Each tool shares one toolbar: Name / Tag, Save Report (PDF), Save Calc, Load Calc, Open phone job… and Reset This Tool. The fourteen linked below each have a page: the drawing the tool makes, the report it writes, and its example step by step in the Suite.
Chapter 9 fill and the smallest conduit, with ampacity and derating, voltage drop and feeder sizing on the same screen.
Sends back to the takeoff314.28 box size for straight and angle pulls of 4 AWG and larger, drawn to scale.
Sends back to the takeoffWireway and gutter fill at 20 percent: 376.22(A), 378.22 and 366.22(A).
Sends back to the takeoffA three-phase motor branch circuit from Table 430.250: protection, conductor, EGC, conduit, starter and overload, with a one-line.
Tools tabTension, sidewall pressure, jamming, the puller and the lubricant for a run built segment by segment.
Tools tabFLA from kVA and back, and the installation figures for one transformer.
Tools tabThe smallest generator for a load in amps, or the amps of a generator size, with a one-line.
Tools tabPoint-to-point available fault current through service, switchboard and branch, every formula shown.
Tools tabConcrete for a duct bank and for pole bases, in cubic yards.
Tools tabService conductors, OCPD, disconnects, GFPE, the main and supply-side bonding jumpers and the GEC, each with its section.
Tools tabThe main bonding jumper, the GEC to every electrode present, and the installation rules.
Tools tabThe 240.21(B) tap rule that applies, its conditions checked, and the smallest tap conductor.
Tools tabArticle 695: the overcurrent device for locked-rotor current, the conductors, voltage drop and the jockey pump.
Tools tabWhere to punch: hole centers measured from the edges, for up to eight conduits in three rows.
Tools tabNEC quick reference: feeder taps, fill adjustment, neutral counting, OCPD sizing, hazardous locations, series ratings and bending space.
Tools tabType trade words or a section number; it lists the 2023 NEC sections that cover it.
Tools tabField test procedures, each statement with its source.
Tools tabUL fuse classes, filtered by class, voltage, amps or brand.
Tools tabFlexible cord letters decoded, and a cord chosen for the use.
Tools tabThe library of manufacturer catalog PDFs on this computer, searched for a part number.
Tools tabThe same calculations run on a phone in Stinger Pro Tools, the Android app; Open phone job… opens a job saved in the app for eight of the tools, and the Suite works the answer out again.
