Bobyard for Finishes Trades is a new custom suite of AI for takeoffs and estimates to measure rooms, calculate wall surfaces, deduct openings, read schedules, and more in minutes.
Today, Bobyard for Finishes Trades is live across flooring, drywall, paint, insulation, and doors and windows.
Finishes trades have some of the highest-volume and most repetitive takeoff work in construction. Estimators trace room perimeters and calculate wall area by hand across hundreds of pages. Or, they stitch manual clicks and counts across multiple tools together to do it—until now.
Bobyard's trade-specific AI reads the drawing in one run, with each specific finishing trade getting the views and quantities it needs.
Contents
- How Bobyard for Finishes Trades works
- What’s included for finishes takeoffs with Bobyard?
- Features and benefits of Bobyard for Finishes Trades
- See Bobyard for Finishes Trades on your own drawings
- More trades are on the way
- Bobyard for Finishes Trades FAQ
What trades are included in Bobyard Finishes Trades launch?
Bobyard for Finishes Trades supports estimating workflows across five sub-trades:
- Flooring
- Drywall
- Painting
- Insulation
- Doors and windows
- …more coming soon
How Bobyard for Finishes Trades works
Most takeoff tools stop at the symbol, but the hard part is what to do with it next: which finish goes in which room? Which schedule does it tie to?
Bobyard looks at the floor plan, the door and window schedule, the finish schedule, and the reflected ceiling plan at the same time. It detects the room, identifies the finish from the schedule, counts the openings on the plan, and matches them back to their sizes and types, then deducts those openings from the wall and ceiling area automatically. Where an estimator works one sheet at a time, our models read all of them at once, in minutes.
What’s included for finishes takeoffs with Bobyard?
Upload your A-series drawings and Bobyard automatically extracts room dimensions, floor areas, wall surfaces, perimeters, ceiling quantities, and counts that previously took hours of manual takeoff work. It also groups spaces by material type or finish pattern.
- Room areas, dimensions, and finish groupings for flooring takeoffs, plus gross internal, gross external, and net internal area for whole-building rough estimates.
- Wall surface area and wall volume for drywall, paint, insulation, and plaster or stucco scopes, with wall types broken out by legend and callout.
- Perimeters and linear feet for baseboards, trim, transitions, and the linear feet where two flooring materials meet.
- Door and window counts, pulled from the floor plan and matched against the schedule for sizes and types — then deducted from wall and ceiling area automatically.
- Ceiling tile counts converted from reflected ceiling plans based on grid and tile size.
Features and benefits of Bobyard for Finishes Trades
Whole-plan room and area detection
Bobyard auto-detects room boundaries and calculates areas across an entire floor plan in one run. Rooms are grouped by type to keep them organized. Every detection carries a confidence score, so you know exactly where to focus your review.
Wall surface measurement, by wall type
Single-click wall detection returns wall length and surface area with a height input. Walls are classified by type using legends and callouts, so drywall and paint quantities are broken out correctly. Wall volume calculations are built in for plaster and stucco scopes.
Floors, transitions, and finishes
Pattern search detects flooring finish types across the floor plan and groups quantities by material. Edge finder calculates linear feet of transitions where different materials meet. Tile counts convert from room area based on tile and grid size.
From takeoff to finished bid, in one place
Takeoff quantities flow straight into the estimate table with material and labor, backed by a built-in cost database, along with final touch-ups to add taxes, adjust margins, and find alternate materials for better pricing. Everything from upload to estimate—without leaving Bobyard.
See Bobyard for Finishes Trades on your own drawings
If you're a finishes estimator, book a demo and run your own drawings through it live with our team. Contractors using Bobyard report an average 50–90% reduction in takeoff time and the ability to send 3–5x more bids per estimator.
Finishes is one of several new trades coming this year
Finishes joins landscaping and electrical on the Bobyard platform. Plumbing and mechanical/HVAC are next, and we're not slowing down.
Every trade we launch makes the next one easier. We've built a scalable system to develop custom AI for each construction trade. We can reuse some what we've already mastered while training new models on the specific drawing conventions, schedules, and workflows of each new trade. Each trade gets the full power of the Bobyard platform behind it, not a bolted-on feature set or a generic toolkit simply pointed at a new vertical.
When every trade has AI that actually understands its drawings, contractors stop competing on bidding capacity and start winning on their craft.
FAQ about Bobyard for Finishes Trades
How long does a finishes takeoff take with Bobyard?
Most takeoffs that previously took hours or days are completed in minutes. Customers report takeoffs taking 50-90% less time.
What finishes drawings does Bobyard support?
We support all drawings with our manual tools, and our AI models handle A-series architectural floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, door and window schedules, and finish schedules.
How does Bobyard compare to PlanSwift, Bluebeam, or Togal for finishes trades?
Unlike those tools, Bobyard uses AI trained specifically on finishes drawings to automate room detection, wall measurement, schedule reading, and opening deductions, rather than requiring thousands of manual clicks per project.