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Assemblies are a very powerful feature of
Quick Estimator. Assemblies are a
group of items grouped together as a kit that you can add to an estimate at
one time. When you add an assembly to an estimate all items that make up the
assembly are added to the estimate and the quantities of each item are
calculated based on the quantity entered for the assembly.
Assemblies are created from
items so you must have entered at least some cost book items before you can
create assemblies.For example if you
can install 30 SF of pavers in 1 man-hour then the Link Factor for paver
installation would be 0.03 or 1 divided by 30. The Link Factor will be used
to calculate the quantity of the items based on the quantity of the
assembly. So for our paver example if we entered 1000 SF of pavers in an
estimate then paver installation would be calculated at 30 man-hours. If you
do not want the quantities calculated for you or you do not know the Link
Factor or the Link Factor varies too much then you can leave the Link Factor
at 0. The items will still be added to your estimate but the quantities will
be 0. You simply enter the quantities manually.
You can also control how the quantity of each item
in the assembly is rounded when calculated. This will only apply if
you enter a Link Factor. To do this you simply enter the fraction you want
the quantities of the items to be
rounded to when they are automatically added to an estimate. The default is
1. In this case all quantities would be rounded up to the nearest unit. If
you enter 0.05 then they would be rounded up to the nearest half unit. If
you want to round down then enter a negative number. If you enter -0.5 then
all quantities would be rounded down to the nearest half unit. If you leave
the Link Factor at 0 then this value is not used.
You can also copy items that belong to one assembly to another. This is
useful if you have many of similar assemblies that
are made up of the same
items because it saves you from having to manually enter them.
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