Skip to main content

Estimate it myself

Price your formwork from your plans.

Your plans. A clearer estimate.

Upload a PDF, PNG or JPG. Set a known dimension, trace your walls or slabs, and see your material estimate take shape.

EXPLORE WITH AN EXAMPLE
Preview of the Formcraft three-bedroom practice house
01 · PRACTICE HOUSE

A more complete sample plan

Three bedrooms, internal walls, doors, windows, a garage and alfresco. Clear dimensions help you learn scaling and tracing.

Illustrative training drawing · 1 sheet
Acacia House furnished floor plan from Your HomePDF
02 · ARCHITECTURAL HOUSE PDF

Acacia House, Perth

A two-bedroom courtyard home from Your Home. Practise with the dimensioned setout and furnished floor plan.

2 practice sheets · full PDF: 10 pages, 3.1 MB

© Commonwealth of Australia 2026. Design For Place is licensed under CC BY 4.0, and provided free of charge at Your Home. Source disclaimers. Used here for takeoff practice; Formcraft systems are not specified by this example design.

Your plan stays in this browser until you submit it to Formcraft.

Scale not setNot saved yet

Upload a plan to begin.

Upload a PDF, PNG or JPG plan to begin.
Click to trace · Finish to save · Select / edit to revise · +/− to zoom
Tap corners to trace · pinch to zoom · hand tool to move · Finish to save
100%

Your takeoff in 3D

Updates as you trace. Drag to orbit · scroll or pinch to zoom. Keyboard: arrow keys to orbit, +/− to zoom, Home to reset.

100%

In-progress shapes are previews. Finish a wall or slab to add it to the estimate. Traced geometry, not an engineering model.

Set the scale

Enter the dimension shown on your plan.