How to Map a Portion of Takeoff Material

Users need a convenient way to select just a portion of a material to map, and leave the remainder of the material unmapped.

Here are some changes to this workflow where you only map a portion of a material. In the example, I use the multi-material workflow with an Assembly, but this is the same workflow using just line items.

Here are some details about this workflow:

• Any manual mapping of a portion of an unmapped takeoff material will cause a new takeoff material to be automatically generated. The selected takeoff will be converted to a newly generated takeoff palette, with a randomly generated style
• The remaining unmapped material is unchanged.
• The new material will be appended to "[Old Material Name] + [acronym of 1st letter of Cost Item being mapped]"
• The material can be renamed via QTO widget after the mapping action takes place. In this case, the unmapped material will retain its original material name and the new material will be named accordingly. 
• You can use Ctrl+Z to revert the splitting of materials.