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Install, activate and produce your first estimate in a few minutes. Short steps, exact menu names.
Itemcode, Name, Supplier, Qty and Price. It also uses Category, Usage, Unit, Measure, Cost and Weight when they are there. See Getting your components ready..rbz file.SKU-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX). It is on the welcome page you saw after checkout and in your purchase email.No key yet? The licence window has Start free trial and Buy now buttons that open the pricing page.
Two computers per licence. If the key is already active on two computers, SkuEstimator lists each one with the date it was last seen and a Release button. Release one to activate here instead.
Choose Licence… again at any time. It shows your status and offers Manage billing (card, invoices, cancel), Release this computer, and, during a trial, End trial & pay now. The status also shows as a badge in the workspace header, for example Licensed or Trial.
To remove the trial watermark before the 3 days are up, choose End trial & pay now in the licence window or on your account page. Your card is charged A$29 + GST (A$31.90 in Australia) straight away. In the licence window the watermark is removed at once; from the account page it goes the next time SkuEstimator checks your licence (open Licence… or restart SketchUp; otherwise within 6 hours). If the payment is declined, your trial carries on unchanged.
SkuEstimator checks your licence in the background: about a minute after SketchUp starts, then every 6 hours. It never makes you wait. If it can't reach the server, your licence stays valid for 30 days from the last successful check. After that the badge reads Licence needs to reconnect. Reconnect to the internet and it refreshes at the next check.
Without an active trial or subscription, SkuEstimator shows only its licence window; the workspace, Live Cost and the other tools stay closed. Licence…, Save Diagnostics Report…, Back Up Data… and Restore Data… always work. Your models and settings are never deleted, and everything is back as soon as you activate again.
Your key is stored on your computer, encrypted to your Windows account.
The first time the workspace opens, a short wizard sets you up. Each step is saved only when you click Next, and Skip for now closes it at any point. Run it again any time from Extensions › SkuEstimator › Setup Wizard… or the Run setup wizard button in Build › Your Details.
PartNo or UnitCost) to SkuEstimator's fields, with a live preview of the first three rows, or Try the sample model first.The sample model is a fictional 6 × 4 m carport frame with made-up suppliers and prices. It's the quickest way to see the whole workflow.
Opening the sample also adds any sample records you don't have yet: sample suppliers and a sample client, catalogue items, the Sample Cost Summary template, pack rules, a linked screw rule and a delivery charge, all marked “(sample)”. It never overwrites a record you already have, so a sample record you've edited keeps your changes.
Each component you want counted needs dynamic-component attributes. At minimum, give it an Itemcode, Name, Supplier, Qty and Price. Add Unit and Measure for items bought by length or area, and Category to group items and assign colours. The sample model's components are a complete working example to copy from.
PartNo, Vendor or UnitCost, you don't have to rename them. Map them once in step 2 of the setup wizard. Editing a mapped value from SkuEstimator updates your own attribute rather than adding a second one.?? in an Itemcode (for example RS76??). Once you assign a colour to that component's category in the Colour Selector, the placeholder becomes the three-letter colour code..skp file can arrive wrapped in an extra shell. Choose Extensions › SkuEstimator › Unwrap Imported Components to explode those shells. It only touches a shell that holds exactly one component with the same Itemcode, and Edit › Undo reverts it in one step.Name, Type, Length, Qty and Unit) in one step. To add Itemcode, Supplier and Price as well, build your own suite under Catalog › Attribute Suites. Editing a whole library of .skp files in bulk is the Component Library (Pro), part of SkuEstimator Pro.Choose Extensions › SkuEstimator › Back Up Data… and pick where to save. You get one .json file containing your templates, suppliers, clients, rules (pack rules, linked items, standing charges, fail safes), catalogue items, your details and custom colours.
A backup does not include:
Anything specific to one job (edits in the Build table, colour assignments) is saved inside that job's .skp file, so copy your model files across as well.
Your data is saved automatically before a restore (to a backups folder inside the data folder), so a restore can always be undone.
Your licence covers 2 computers. To move it, do one of these:
??The component uses a colour placeholder and no colour is assigned to its category yet. Open Tools › Colour Selector in the workspace (or Extensions › SkuEstimator › Colour Selector…), select the category and pick a colour. Categories come from the Category attribute by default.
You're on the free trial. The watermark goes when your first payment goes through: at the end of the trial, or straight away with End trial & pay now.
Your licence can't be confirmed right now. The badge in the workspace header tells you why:
Payment overdue is different: exports stay clean for up to 7 days while payment retries. Update your card through billing before then or SkuEstimator locks.
Save PDF… uses Microsoft Edge in the background. If Edge can't be found, or doesn't finish within 60 seconds, the print window opens instead. Choose Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer to save your document.
Click Refresh, then Preview. If it's still empty, the model has no components with attributes for the selected template. Try the sample model to confirm everything works, then check your components' attributes. If they use your own names, map them in the setup wizard.
Most commands need an open model. Open Sample Model…, Licence…, Save Diagnostics Report…, Back Up Data… and Restore Data… are always available.
Choose Extensions › SkuEstimator › Save Diagnostics Report… and attach the .txt file it saves to your email. It contains:
It contains no customer records, prices, templates or keys.
Templates, suppliers, clients, rules and your details are stored in %APPDATA%\SkuEstimator\. The error log is in its logs folder. Use Back Up Data… rather than copying this folder by hand.
Email hello@skuestimator.com. To help us answer quickly, include your SkuEstimator version (shown in the Extension Manager) and attach a diagnostics report.