Metriq MTO
Piping take-off in Excel from your Navisworks model
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A Navisworks NWD from Plant 3D, Revit MEP or DWF goes in; a line-based piping material take-off (MTO) in Excel comes back the same day, with a PDF report for the bid. Pipe in metres or feet, fittings and valves counted, exact copies counted once. Every row traces to model objects, and anything left unmeasured has its own list outside the totals. It is for estimators and quantity surveyors who price piping from a model. The sample Excel and PDF are free at metriqmto.com/sample.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: construction and project cost estimators · 94 launches, 11 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Construction
- Vertical SaaS
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Spreadsheets
- SaaS
- Construction
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI, Excel/PDF output, and per-row traceability are straightforward to vibe-code. The hard part is reliably parsing Navisworks/Plant 3D/Revit MEP geometry and classifying pipe, fittings, and valves with estimator-grade accuracy.
What it would actually take: A real version would sit on Autodesk Platform Services (Model Derivative) or the Navisworks .NET API to extract piping objects and properties, then apply rules to group runs, count fittings and valves, and deduplicate identical copies. The output is an Excel workbook plus PDF, built on a web backend. Piping estimating and BIM expertise is needed to validate the counts and to know which edge cases to flag.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 69 days after the earliest competitor.
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