What happened to CostWorks?

[dan.christian]

After upgrading to 6.1 I've descovered that CostWorks is no longer supported. Is there a replacement to this feature or does anyone know of any good (inexpensive) program that can be used with the Revit data?

[beegee]

ODBC export to other programes is the favored method now.

CostWorks was apparently deleted due to some disatisfaction.

For a discussion about other possibilities - check this post (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=561&highlight=CostWorks). and this one (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=1387&highlight=CostWorks).

[Scott Hopkins]

Here is a web site you can use to get an approximate cost estimate for residential construction.

http://www.building-cost.net/ (http://www.building-cost.net/)

And by the way, I think it is pretty lame of Autodesk to just dump the cost estimating portion of the program and just pretend like nothing happened.

[hand471037]

I was always hoping that they would add the ability to submit my own reports, like ADA forms for TI work done up as Word templates and then include them onto any sheet ala schedules. And they would sit alongside the cost reports within the project browser under reports.

[PeterJ]

I understand that CostWorks was only available in the US and maybe Canada, so many of us were not deriving substantial benefit from it. The data that was submitted was used to make tweaks to a set of algorithms that would generate, I believe, a weighted cost per area and this was then applied to the area of the buikding so to some extent it seems to have been a pretty clumsy tool.

I understand that other tools are now in development to allow costings to be produced in a scalable level of detail but right now as beegee says, the preferred method is to export as ODBC and manipulate the data yourself, or with your QS.

[aaronrumple]

Hopefully a better integrated CostWorks is in the planning(?)

[tonyisenhoff]

Any thoughts on this??

Does anyone use Timberline successfully?