XactScope, a mobile estimating app for the iPhone, iPad, andiPod touch, now includes Xactware's Sketch technology. With theaddition of Sketch, XactScope offers users a completeloss-site estimating tool that can help them draw floor plans, additems to estimates, download price lists, and generate reports.

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The new version of XactScope is used in tandem with the recentlyreleased Xactimate 27.5 Professional desktop estimating system.XactScope and Xactimate can exchange estimates, sketches, pricelists, and loss-site information, such as photos, notes, and voicememos.

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Using a touch screen, estimators can sketch rooms, stairs,roofs, and other structural features. Users can touch and drag toresize rooms or walls; enter openings, doors, and windows; attachrooms, roofs, and dormers; add fences, decks, and much more. Toenter items into an estimate, estimators have access to intuitivesearch functions, such as tapping on an illustration to see a listof options.

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"One of the most common questions I've heard since the inauguralrelease of XactScope is, 'When are we going to be able to drawfloor and roof plans on an iPad?'" says Jeffrey C. Taylor,Xactware's assistant vice president for Xactimate. "XactScope notonly delivers a powerful Sketch tool, but it also includes otherimportant upgrades, such as improved price list access and reports,that make it a more efficient and robust mobile estimatingtool."

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XactScope is now available from the App Store . Xactimate Professional users canactivate the app at no additional cost for use with their Xactimate27.5 Professional system.

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