01 / Drawing extraction
The print reads itself
Part number, dimensions, material and units — imperial or metric — read straight off the PDF by vision and OCR. Nobody squints at a title block and retypes it into a spreadsheet.
No retyping
Estimating & print reading
A drawing lands in your inbox. BrixIQ reads it and prices it against your rates.
Quote ready in minutes, not at the end of the week. The first quote in wins more often — so quote every RFQ that comes through the door and win more jobs.
Part number, dimensions, material, units, surface area, weight — read off the PDF and handed to your estimator to approve. This is where every shop starts with BrixIQ.
Reads scanned and native PDFs
Imperial or metric
Every extraction human-approved
Live in days, not quarters
What changes the week you turn it on
Two numbers, both measured on the estimating desk.
Estimator time per RFQ
2+ hoursOne click
Hands-on time, not wall clock. The estimator still approves every number.
Manual estimating per print
20+ minutes0–3 minutes
Reading the print, keying the fields, working out the area — automated end to end.
From inbox to quote
The same four steps your estimator already runs — BrixIQ does the typing and the math.
- 01 / Drop the print
Drag in the PDF the customer emailed you. Scanned, photographed or native CAD export — vision and OCR handle all three.
- 02 / BrixIQ reads it
Part number, revision, dimensions, material and units come off the drawing. Surface area is calculated from the print and weight from material plus area.
- 03 / Estimator approves
Every extraction lands in a sign-off queue. Your estimator confirms or corrects, and the part is locked in as approved shop data.
- 04 / Price it and send
Approved area, weight and part data price against your rates. The quote goes back the same day the RFQ arrived.
What BrixIQ pulls off the print
Everything an estimator reads on a drawing and retypes into a spreadsheet — done for them.
02 / Surface area
The number you actually bill on
Finishing and plating are priced by area, so area is the whole quote. BrixIQ calculates it from the print instead of leaving it to a guess that costs you either the job or the margin.
Priced on real area
03 / Weight
Freight and material land in the quote
Weight is computed from material and area, so material cost and freight show up in the price instead of eating your margin after the truck leaves.
Margin stays yours
04 / Finish-area tracer
Trace the finished area in about a minute
Click along the part and the tracer snaps to the ink with magnetic edge-snapping. Calibrate the scale once and you have real area on screen. No planimeter, no eyeballing it.
Minutes, not an afternoon
05 / Revision control
One clear current rev
Same part number, full lineage, side-by-side diff between revisions. No more folders holding rev_C_FINAL_v2.pdf next to three files that look just like it.
Never run the wrong rev
06 / Global search
Every print, searchable
Search by part number, title, or the text written on the drawing itself. A repeat part that took an hour to dig up and re-estimate gets requoted in seconds.
Requote in seconds
07 / AI copilot
It has read every print you own
Ask what the callout on that bracket means or which parts run the same finish, and the answer is grounded in the actual drawing. The knowledge stays in the shop the day your one estimator who knows everything retires.
The knowledge stays
08 / Org-defined fields
Track what your shop tracks
Add your own fields to prints — customer, process, color, thickness, whatever your quoting depends on. Structured part data you can filter, sort, price and report on.
Your data, structured
Human sign-off
Nothing gets quoted until a person says so
Every extraction BrixIQ makes lands in a sign-off queue. Your estimator sees what was read off the drawing, confirms it or corrects it, and only then does it become approved shop data. You get the speed without handing your quoting to a robot.
01 / Human sign-off
- Every field shows what BrixIQ read and where it read it from
- Corrections are one edit, and they stick to the part
- Approved parts carry the name of whoever signed off
Approved by a person
01 / Revision control
The rev mistake you only make once
Quoting or running the wrong revision is one scrapped lot a year for most shops — material, labor, freight and a customer conversation you did not want to have. Revision history keeps every rev of a part number under one roof with one clear current rev and a side-by-side diff, so the wrong print never makes it to the floor.
One scrapped lot a year, gone
Estimating is where shops start
BrixIQ starts at $995 per facility per month, unlimited users, no setup fee. Print reading and estimating is the entry tier — quality, finance and the customer portal bolt on when you are ready for them.
See pricingSend us a print. We will read it back to you.
Fifteen minutes, one of your own drawings, and you will see the area, the weight and the part data come off it live.
For machine, plating, coating and finishing shops.