Quick Answer: Door takeoff is counting every door on the plans by type and size, pulling the frame and hardware set off the schedule, and sizing weatherstripping, thresholds, and rough openings. CyanBuild reads the door schedule and the plan together, counts doors by type and size, ties each to its frame and hardware set, and sizes the trim and weatherstripping per opening, with a confidence flag on every line so your estimator knows what to verify.
Door takeoff is the process of measuring every quantity on a door plan in the units your trade bills on. Done by hand it means counting symbols one by one and cross referencing the schedule, which is slow and error prone. AI reads the same drawings in seconds and reports the same quantities, with the math shown for every number so your bid is defensible.
CyanBuild measures door quantities off the scaled PDF, DWG, or image. The result is a line item takeoff tied back to the sheet and location it came from, so your order is accurate and your bid holds up when the GC checks your numbers.
What Trade Specific Takeoff Means for Doors
Doors sit in CSI Division 08, Openings, and the trade specific part is that a door is a count item with three line items behind it: the door, the frame, and the hardware. Each one bills separately, and each one comes from a different schedule. The door schedule lists the door by mark, type, size, material, and fire rating. The frame schedule lists the frame, often separately, with its profile and fire rating. The hardware schedule groups hardware into sets, each set tied to one or more door marks. Trade specific takeoff has to read all three and tie them together, because a door bid that misses the hardware set loses the job.
Trade specific also means the takeoff understands the wall the door sits in. A hollow metal frame in a masonry wall bills differently than a wood frame in a stud partition, and the rough opening and the fire stopping change with it. A takeoff that only counts the door misses the frame, the hardware, and the prep work that goes around it.
What Counts on the Drawings
Door quantities live in three schedules and two plan views. The door schedule lists every door by mark, type, size, material, and fire rating. The frame schedule lists the frame for each mark, with the profile and the wall type. The hardware schedule groups hinges, locks, exit devices, closers, stops, and weatherstripping into sets, each set tied to door marks. The floor plans show where each door mark goes, and the elevations and the wall sections hold the rough opening when the schedule does not spell it out.
What you are counting and measuring:
- Door count by type, size, material, and fire rating, pulled from the schedule and cross referenced to the plan.
- Frame count by profile and fire rating, pulled from the frame schedule and tied to the door mark.
- Hardware sets, counted and tied to the door marks they serve, with the piece count inside each set.
- Weatherstripping and sweeps, linear feet per door where the spec or the hardware set calls for them.
- Thresholds and saddles, one per door where the detail includes them, sized to the opening width.
- Rough openings for framing, computed from the door size and the frame profile when not called out.
- Fire stopping and smoke seals at rated openings, linear feet per rated door.
What Good Takeoff Software Does for This Trade
Good door takeoff software reads the door schedule, the frame schedule, and the hardware schedule together and ties them to the plan. It counts the doors on the plan, pulls the type, size, material, and fire rating for each mark off the schedule, and reconciles the three so a door on the plan that is missing from the schedule gets flagged and a hardware set with no door gets flagged too. It computes the rough opening from the door size and the frame profile, and it derives the weatherstripping and threshold counts from the hardware set. That means your estimator is checking the schedules, not building the takeoff line by line.
The software should handle the product families that show up on door jobs. Hollow metal, wood, aluminum, and overhead doors bill differently. Rated doors carry a hardware set that must match the label. The takeoff should preserve that detail in the line item, not collapse it into a generic count, so your pricing imports cleanly into the bid sheet.
Must Have Features
- Door, frame, and hardware schedule cross reference, so every door on the plan is matched to its schedule row and missing marks are flagged.
- Count by type, size, material, and fire rating, with the detail preserved on the line item.
- Hardware set takeoff, with the piece count inside each set and the set tied to the door mark.
- Rough opening computation from the door size and frame profile, with the math shown.
- Weatherstripping, threshold, and smoke seal quantities derived from the hardware set and the detail.
- Confidence flags on every line, so your estimator knows which counts came straight off the schedule and which need a second look.
- Takeoff tied back to the sheet and the plan location, so the GC can trace any number back to the drawing.
- Export to Excel and PDF in the format your bid sheet expects, with doors grouped by type and size for ordering.
What to Watch Out For
The trap in door takeoff is the three schedules that do not agree. Designers add a door to the plan and forget the schedule, drop a hardware set, or change a fire rating on the door but not the frame. The takeoff has to catch every mismatch or you bid the wrong quantity or the wrong rating. Software that only reads the door schedule misses the hardware, which is the most expensive part of the bid. Software that only reads the plan misses the rating and the material.
The second trap is the rated opening. Fire doors carry a label, a rated frame, and a hardware set that all have to match, and the fire stopping and the smoke seals are separate line items. Ask whether the tool reads the fire rating and ties it across the door, frame, and hardware. Ask how it handles borrowed lights and transoms, which count as part of the rated assembly. And ask how it tracks revisions, because door and hardware schedules change between permit and issue for construction more often than any other division.
How CyanBuild Fits
CyanBuild reads door schedules, frame schedules, hardware schedules, and plan views together in PDF, DWG, DXF, or image format. It counts every door on the plan by type and size, ties each to its frame and hardware set, and sizes weatherstripping, thresholds, and rough openings. Each line carries a High, Medium, or Low confidence flag, and low confidence lines show the math so your estimator verifies in seconds. The takeoff exports to Excel and PDF with every quantity tied to its sheet and location, ready for pricing and bid.
Putting It Together
Door takeoff is a count item with three schedules behind it. The door, the frame, and the hardware each bill separately and each comes from a different schedule. Generic takeoff software that counts symbols on the plan misses the hardware, and tools that only read the door schedule miss the frame and the rating. Trade specific door takeoff software reads all three schedules and ties them to the plan, derives the rough opening and the weatherstripping from the door size, and reports each line item with the math shown. Run a sample sheet through any tool you are considering and check whether the output matches the way your bid sheet is built. If you have to rekey the hardware set or compute the fire stopping by hand, the tool is not doing the takeoff for your trade.