Designed by mechanical insulation contractors and computer experts, MIKE offers an accurate and reliable estimating program. It can cut estimating time, avoid costly extension errors and speed up the development of a bill of materials.
It separates ductwork and piping, and allows users to modify labor hours and material estimates by section. It can also play “what-if” with material prices and factors, allowing contractors to bid smarter.
RapidBid
In the construction industry, preparing quotes for mechanical insulation can be a time-consuming process. Contractors spend a lot of time looking at plans, organising papers and measuring with a tape measure. This can take hours. Fortunately, there are several different estimating software applications that can help contractors reduce the amount of time spent on these tasks. These programs can also make the estimates more accurate.
The MIKE estimating software can help you save money by minimizing the number of hours needed to produce bids. This will give you more time to oversee projects and develop sales opportunities. In addition, it will speed up the development of material and labor cost reports. This will help you win more jobs and increase your profit margin.
You can use MIKE to estimate costs for a variety of projects, including piping, ductwork, walls, and floors. It also provides you with an automatic material breakdown and a comprehensive bill of materials. It can even help you estimate alternates for a project. This software is easy to learn and use, and it can reduce your estimating time by up to 70 percent.
Another popular estimating tool is RapidBid, which allows you to takeoff and produce a quote in less than five hours. Its simple-to-use interface makes it a perfect choice for anyone who works with large commercial and industrial facilities. This software eliminates the need for a scale and digitizer, saving you valuable time. Its autocounting and autototalling eliminate the need for manual checking, and it has been shown to produce final prices that match manual estimates 99% of the time.
Whether you’re an electrician, builder or plumber, it’s important to have good estimating skills. You’ll need to know the types of projects your company does, as well as the labor and equipment needed for each job. In addition, you’ll need to understand how to read blueprints and understand how a mechanical system works. If you’re a newcomer to the field, it might be helpful to find an apprenticeship with someone who already has experience in mechanical estimating.
GEM
GEM is a GUI system developed by Digital Research. Its roots can be traced back to GSX, an early graphics engine developed by DR. The system went on to develop a full GUI with a number of components. These include the Application Environment Shell (AES), which provided a window system, and the Graphical User Interface (GUI) widgets.
Unlike the Macintosh, GEM ran under DOS (DR DOS or GEMDOS on PCs and Atari 640×512, 320×240 or 256 on the ST) and used character graphics for the GUI widgets. It also had a more spartan look and only shipped with one monospaced font. This made it a more suitable system for business environments than the Macintosh.
Although the original version of GEM had a limited feature set, it was easy to expand and had a wide variety of applications available. It was able to print on almost any printer, and it had the ability to use different screen modes for different applications. This was a major improvement over the previous generation of DOS, which required a separate screen driver for each program.
When GEM XM was released in 1985, it had improved stability and features. It was also re-entrant and supported multitasking, and it could run under the FreeMiNT multitasking extensions to DOS. It was a significant improvement over the DOS version of GEM, and it remained popular for many years.
The GEM XM source code was later released under the GNU General Public License, and it was widely used in the development of other operating systems. In particular, it inspired the FreeMiNT project, which is based on the Atari TOS.
GEM can also be used to compare the reaction content of different tissue models. This is accomplished by calculating the Hamming distance of each model’s reactions. The results are then visualized using a clustergram. The results are useful for assessing the similarity of different tissues.
This can be done in MATLAB, which provides an API for GEM. However, this tool has a number of limitations, such as the lack of color palette options and poor plotting capabilities. It is better to export the data to a CSV or text file and then import it into a program such as python or R, which provide more flexible color palettes and plotting functions.