Turning dimensions into decisions

An in-browser measurement engine for quantity surveyors and builders. Open 2D and 3D drawings, take off quantities, count items automatically and push accurate data straight into your estimating workflow — no installs, no plugins.

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DimensionIQ rendering internal walls in 3D from a PDF plan
The product

A measurement engine built for the browser.

Plans open directly in your browser — no installer, no plugins, no downloads. DimensionIQ is a WASM-first viewer for 2D and 3D drawings that loads straight from the cloud.

Under the hood, DimensionIQ handles user interaction, geometry and measurement logic. Your app handles storage, business logic and UI. A clean JavaScript API lets you create, update and manage dimensions programmatically — bulk imports, event-driven updates, synchronisation across tools.

From single-click length measurements to full BIM extraction from 3D drawings, DimensionIQ brings the familiar tools of the trade into the browser — faster, cloud-native, and ready to integrate.

Measuring a length on a floor plan
01 · LENGTHS

Single-click length measurement

Click once to measure. Point, line, polyline — DimensionIQ handles scale, units and rounding automatically, with every dimension saved to a named group for later.

Measuring an area on a floor plan
02 · AREAS

Area measurement with auto-close

Trace any closed region on a drawing. Wet areas, flooring, footprints — areas are returned instantly in m², with dimension groups and quantities ready for export.

Auto Count feature detecting AC units
03 · AUTO COUNT

Template-based auto count

Draw a template once; DimensionIQ finds every match across the plan with a confidence score. Tune the match threshold, review, accept — hundreds of counts in seconds.

3D rendering of a full building
04 · 3D & BIM

Open 3D drawings & extract BIM

View 3D models alongside 2D plans. Read and extract BIM metadata — layers, materials, properties — and feed them into measurement groups or your estimating tool.

Revision tracking

Overlay revisions, highlight changes, re-measure only what moved.

PDF & DWFX

Native support for construction file formats — no conversion step.

JavaScript API

Embed the engine into any estimating product — cloud or desktop.

Dimension groups

Organise measurements by trade, room or category with one click.

About us

20+ years of take-off technology — reimagined for the browser.

DimensionIQ was founded by the team that spent decades putting on-screen take-off into quantity surveying offices around the world.

The result is DimensionIQ: a cloud-native measurement engine written from the ground up for modern web technologies, so any estimating product — cloud or desktop — can deliver world-class take-off.

Mark Kefford

Mark Kefford

Founder & CEO
45+ years in the software industry and 40 running his own companies. A serial software entrepreneur behind multiple global startups.
In 2003 Mark founded Exactal, which brought the latest estimating and take-off technology to QS and construction markets — CostX, DimensionX and dxAPI — growing to 9+ offices with software running in 90+ countries. In 2018 he sold Exactal to RIB Software (now part of Siemens). DimensionIQ is his next chapter: cloud take-off that plugs into any estimating product.
Jason Anderssen

Jason Anderssen

Founder & CTO
Principal architect behind the take-off technology used across the Exactal product line, and one of the deepest minds in drawing and measurement engineering.
Jason built DimensionIQ from scratch using the latest web technologies — including WASM — for the fastest possible take-off in the cloud. He brought every tool of the trade along: single-click measurement, auto-count, revisions, 2D and 3D, and full BIM extraction.
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