Residential Wire Pro 3.0 Software- Any experience? Use for bidding?

[sw_ross]

Anyone have experience using the Residential Wire Pro 3.0 Software for drawing up house plans/circuits; doing take-offs, and bids/estimates?

I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to learn how to use this software, versus a bid software like Accubid, or Turbobid? Thanks for any input!

http://www.licensedelectrician.com/Store/CM/ResiWirePro.htm

 

[brantmacga]

Residential Wire Pro 3.0 Software- Any experience? Use for bidding?

That looks to be more of a drawing tool than a take-off tool.

If you already have accubid or intellibid, I would stick with that.

I use Bluebeam for quick E-sheet edits or as built drawings.


If I'm doing full residential E-sheets, i use a program called Chief Architect. It's not cheap, but I've used it quite a bit for design work in our service department for remodels and such for 3D renderings.

Here's a couple of pages from some E-sheets I did recently for a house we are wiring for one of our service customers.... I just have them send me their CAD files and work on top of that. Chief architect also has full cad tools for drawing details.

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[sw_ross]

Yeah, that's my assumption about this wire pro software. Looks like you have to draw up the house plans before you start entering circuits. That would be a lot of work just to set up for doing a bid on a residence!

Thanks!

 

[brantmacga]

It does say you can import pdf files, so you can work on top of your customers floor plan. I just didn't see where it's comparable to an accubid type program.


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