iSqFt First Time User Tutorial

Viewing Plans
Begin by navigating, using your Internet Explorer, to www.iSqFt.com. Click on Login Here and enter in your Username and Password.

This will open your Project Desktop. Yours will look similar to this one only with your company name in the title bar.


Every bidding project that you have access to view is located in the Project Listings folder. Click on the Project Listings folder and then on Currently Bidding Projects.



To see a tutorial on how to use the Project Search function Click Here.

Project Invitations is used to conduct negotiated work with General Contractors.

Project Request Form is used to submit requests to the Planroom for specific projects.


To sort this list by any of the columns listed, simply click on the column header. For example if you clicked on the Project Name Column header it would alphabetize the projects from A to Z and then if you clicked on it again it would do it Z to A.

To access the plans, specs, addenda, and details of a project click on the name of the project (it is blue because it is a link to the project).

The first project page returned is the Details page which looks like this.

To access a list of the plans click on the Plans button. The same is true for the Specs and the Addenda. Lets take a look at the plan list.

To view a plan before you download it, click on the name of the plan to view it in the iSqFt Image viewer. This is how the plan looks in the viewer.

To utilize the viewer I have defined the buttons below:


Mouse buttons:

-The hand allows you to shift the drawing around.
-The magnifying glass allows you to click and drag a rectangle around an area that you would like to zoom in on.
-The pencil allows you to make personal annotations on the drawing.


The Zoom buttons:

-The percentage allows you zoom to a specific percentage.
-The arrow buttons will take you from any zoom level back to page width.


The View buttons:

These buttons allow you to view one spec page or multiple spec pages.


Downloading Plans

After previewing the plans and deciding which ones you want to download, place checkmarks next to the desired plans and click the download button at the bottom of the page.


This box will appear asking you how you would like to save the drawings.

Save All – If you click the Save All button, an iSqFt Downloads folder will be created on your Desktop.

Save All To – If you click on the Save All To button, a window will open allowing you to designate where on your hard drive you would like to save these plans.


After they are downloaded, the plans will be viewable at anytime by clicking on them in the iSqFt Downloads\Plans folder.


Tracking Projects

After you have located a project that you know you are going to be looking at repeatedly, you can track it. On the details page of the project, click the Track This Project button.


This will place the project in the Project Tracking folder, so that next time you need to view that project, you don't have to look for it in the Currently Bidding Projects list.


Clicking on a project name in the Project Tracking folder will take you directly to the details page of that project.


For a Tutorial on how to search for projects click here.