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Colour System ✓ Included in DIY & Pro

Order the right colour. Every time.

Assign colours by category — every ?? placeholder resolves to the exact supplier code, on every quote and order.

22 built-in colours + your supplier’s colours ?? → 3-letter code Per-category assignment

Watch a placeholder become an order code

Pick a colour per category — codes and names rewrite instantly.

SkuEstimator — Colour Selector
Itemcode C42X??
Name "Cladding"
Category "Cladding"
Cladding → Charcoal
+$0.00  same price, correct code
22 built-in colours + your own

> Resolution runs before collapse — so each colour is its own ordering line.

In the real plugin · sample data

This is the Colour Selector.

Colour Selector with categories on the left, a palette of swatches and a preview of itemcodes being resolved
Categories on the left, swatches in the middle, and a live preview of every ?? code it will resolve.
The Palette

Assign by category. Switch without losing work.

One palette drives every document — codes, names and totals stay in sync.

22 built-in colours, plus your own

Start with the built-in set, then add your supplier’s own colour names and codes. They behave identically.

Category-aware assignment

Roofing, Cladding, Flashings — each category keeps its own assignments, untouched.

?? → itemcode resolution

CHR, OWT, SGE — C42X?? becomes C42XCHR, the code your supplier orders by.

Non-destructive switching

Charcoal to Dark Grey and back — names never double, nothing is lost.

How a colour flows through the pipeline
1

Extract

SE reads each component's dyc: attributes — itemcode arrives with a ?? placeholder.

2

Assign

You pick a colour per category. Each grouping attribute keeps its own assignments.

3

Resolve

The ?? rewrites to the 3-letter code; the colour name prepends Name.

4

Order

The resolved code flows into every quote and order.

What's included

Colour Selector comes with DIY and Pro.

Start with DIY today: every costing tool for A$29 per month + GST, with a 3-day free trial. Pro adds the business tools and is coming soon.

3-day free trial

SkuEstimator DIY

For anyone who models a project in SketchUp and wants to cost it

A$29/ month + GST

✓ Colour Selector included

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  • Every costing tool: Build, Live Cost, Documents, Pack Rules, Colours, Source Checker
  • Cost summaries, price requests, materials orders and client quotes
  • Supplier price files kept in sync
  • 2 computers per licence
Coming soon

SkuEstimator Pro

For builders and estimating teams running client jobs end to end

A$299/ month + GST

✓ Colour Selector included

Tell me when it’s ready
  • Everything in DIY
  • Price Book: one live price list that prices every estimate
  • Customer Jobs: one file per client, with its own templates
  • Job Types and your own document types
  • Fail Safes: your own rules before anything is sent
  • Component Library: bulk-edit your library .skp files
  • Steel punching for C and Z sections

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