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Feature Update: Sharing Plans and Blueprints

Sharing plans and mark-ups with a colleague, contractor, home-owner or supplier just got a whole lot easier

Feature Update: Grouping Function

A look into our new 'groupings' function to calculate materials quickly.

Small Business Tax Time Tips

You’re not going to believe it, another financial year done and dusted. Here’s a few quick tax tips to help your construction business.

New Quoting Template for ConX Measure

Getting cubic meters, wall areas and adding pitch to measurements from a plan. A quick look at how to use these features. 

Square Meter Calculator

Do you need to know the square meter area? Well you've come to the right plan, in a couple of short steps we'll help you find it out. All you'll need is a computer and a set of plans!

How to Find the Scale

It’s not always easy to get the original copies of plans straight from the draftys pen, sometimes  originals have been scanned and re-uploaded which will affect you when you are looking to get accurate measurements, other times guys send you a picture of plans (As in the  example below). It can be a real slog getting the correct information for something so crucial that could be the difference in thousands of dollars. 

ConX Measure: Feature Update

You probably logged into ConX last night or this morning and noticed something a little bit different about us….or maybe you haven’t yet tried us out, if that’s the case you’ve got to see this.

Drywall Calculator - Need Help Pricing Drywall Jobs?

You come home after a day on site. Print out the set of blueprints (if you own a printer), if not get them printed at your nearest print shop. Clear a space on the dining room table, grab your scale ruler and highlighters, and settle in for the night. A couple of hours later once you’ve finished measuring, add up all your measurements, add your rates and then flick an email over to the builder with the quote. Surely there's a better way?

Why You Should Be Certified as a Tradie

In this blog, Skills Certified explore why it is so important for Australian tradies to receive their certification before starting to commence work.