Turn PDF floor plans into measurable masonry wall takeoffs for CMU, brick, and stone. Assign masonry systems directly to walls, deduct openings, calculate material quantities, and build editable labor and material estimates.
CMU, brick, stone veneer, natural stone, dry-stack, reinforcement, and free-standing walls — connected in one masonry estimating workflow.
ROOM TAKEOFF
Vega uses floor-plan geometry to establish masonry wall areas, lets the estimator assign CMU, brick, or stone systems directly to walls, deducts openings, derives material quantities, and builds editable material and labor estimates.
Upload the plans
Start with the plan set — the floor plans carry the wall geometry, and the elevations, wall legends, and structural notes carry the masonry specification.
Measure the walls
Vega uses floor-plan geometry to establish wall lengths, per-wall heights, and masonry wall areas — the primary quantity source for the masonry estimate.
Assign the masonry
The estimator assigns CMU, brick, thin brick, stone veneer, natural stone, or dry-stack systems directly to measured walls using the plan canvas. AI seeds the starting point from the spec scan; you control the final assignment.
Deduct openings
Window and door openings are deducted from gross masonry wall area to calculate net masonry wall area — the basis for material quantities and waste allowances.
Build the estimate
Vega derives material quantities, applies material-specific waste allowances, prices reinforcement and footing where applicable, and builds editable material and labor pricing.
Masonry wall quantities come from floor-plan geometry. The estimator assigns the masonry system to each wall — AI seeds the default from the spec scan, you control the final assignment.
Masonry wall area is measured from floor-plan wall geometry — each wall segment’s length multiplied by its height, for walls painted as masonry. Openings are deducted from schedules. Block and brick counts are derived for ordering. Reinforcement is an additive assembly for CMU.
Wall area is measured from floor plans. The masonry system is user-assigned per wall, with AI seeding the default from the spec scan. Block and brick counts are ordering traces — never charged as separate lines.
The same wall-based workflow supports CMU, brick, and stone — assigned directly to measured walls, with opening deductions and editable material and labor estimating for each family.
CMU
Concrete masonry units — residential and commercial/load-bearing.
Brick
Clay brick — full brick and thin brick veneer.
Stone
Manufactured and natural stone — veneer, full-bed, accent, and dry-stack.
Accessory items — mortar, grout, ties, anchors, control joints, and cleaning — are included inside the installed unit price, not priced as individual lines. Vega does not estimate lintels, shelf angles, flashing, weeps, or special shapes as distinct items.
Vega works from masonry wall geometry and uses window and door information to calculate net masonry wall area — the basis for material quantities and waste allowances.
Gross from floor plans
Masonry wall length multiplied by per-wall height, summed across the plan set for every wall painted as masonry.
Openings from schedules
Window and door opening widths come from the schedules; heights default by type. Openings are pro-rated to each masonry system’s share of the gross wall.
Net area drives quantities
The net masonry area is the basis for block and brick counts, mortar trace, reinforcement, and material waste allowances.
Window and door openings are deducted from masonry wall area. Vega does not estimate storefront, louvers, mechanical openings, or structural openings.
Vega uses measured net masonry wall area to derive CMU quantities, mortar, and reinforcement — and builds editable material and labor pricing from the result.
CMU WALL SF
Net masonry wall area after opening deductions — the starting point for every CMU quantity.
BLOCK QUANTITIES
Net SF divided by the block face area, plus a material waste allowance. An estimating and ordering quantity — not individually detected.
MORTAR QUANTITY TRACE
Derived from the block count for ordering guidance. Included inside the installed unit price, not charged as a separate line.
REINFORCEMENT ALLOWANCE
Grout and reinforcement priced per 100 SF as an additive assembly, with every-4-ft and every-cell schemes for CMU.
MATERIAL QUANTITIES
Material lines carry the waste-loaded order area; labor is priced on the net area. The split is visible and editable.
LABOR PRICING
Installed unit cost split into material and labor using a per-family labor share. Every unit price and labor assumption is editable.
Block counts are derived estimating and ordering quantities — not individually visually detected. Vega does not calculate pallet, cube, or bundle quantities, or individual rebar piece counts.
The same wall-based workflow supports full clay brick, thin brick, manufactured and natural stone veneer, full-bed stone, stone accents, and dry-stack stone — using measured wall area and opening deductions to build quantities and pricing.
Brick
Stone
Vega uses measured wall area and opening deductions to build brick and stone quantities and pricing. It does not estimate brick coursing layout, detect individual bricks, optimize stone, or recognize patterns automatically.
Vega can include CMU reinforcement estimating using reinforcement schemes such as every-four-foot and every-cell conditions. The estimator can adjust reinforcement assumptions before pricing.
Reinforcement schemes
Every-4-ft and every-cell grout and reinforcement schemes, priced per 100 SF as an additive assembly separate from the installed wall price.
Auto-armed from spec
The scheme can be auto-armed from the wall height, load-bearing flag, and occupancy — the estimator can adjust the assumption before pricing.
CMU only
Reinforcement is a CMU-only assembly. Brick and stone families carry no reinforcement line — a brick wythe has no cells to grout.
Vega estimates reinforcement quantities and pricing — it does not design reinforcement, provide structural engineering, or verify code compliance. Confirm reinforcement requirements with the project’s structural engineer.
Vega applies a material waste allowance to masonry material quantities — editable per masonry system, and applied to material only, never to labor.
Material-specific waste
A waste allowance applied to material quantities, editable per masonry system. The estimator can adjust the factor for each family in the breakdown.
Material only
Waste applies to material quantities only, never to labor — you order extra block or brick, but you do not pay a mason to lay the broken ones.
Editable per system
Each masonry system carries its own waste factor. Adjust the percentage for CMU, brick, or stone independently in the estimate breakdown.
Waste is an editable material allowance, not an optimization. It is a fixed per-system percentage, not calculated from opening count or corner count.
A masonry estimate is only as good as the wall area and system assignment behind it. Vega shows whether the wall area was measured or assumed — and every wall, opening, scope, and price is editable.
See the wall-area source
The estimate shows whether the masonry wall area was measured from floor-plan wall geometry or derived from the envelope fallback — so you know whether the masonry scope is measured or assumed.
Edit wall heights
Every masonry wall segment carries its own height. Adjust the plate height, the storey count, or any individual wall — the masonry area and material quantities recompute with every change.
Assign masonry per wall
Switch any wall between CMU, brick, thin brick, stone veneer, natural stone, or dry-stack using the canvas paint-bucket. Walls you leave unpainted take the default seeded from the spec scan.
Edit window and door schedules
Opening widths come from the schedules; opening heights default by type. Adjust any entry and the opening deduction, net masonry area, and material quantities follow.
Toggle the masonry scopes
Walls, veneer, free-standing, foundation CMU, and reinforcement are each a scope toggle. Turn off free-standing and the garden-wall run and its footing are never measured.
Trade boundaries respected
Full-wall stone and brick veneer stay in Masonry; small stone accent stays in Exteriors. Masonry reinforcement stays here; structural rebar stays in Rebar. Poured foundations and building footings stay in Structural Concrete.
Wall area
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From floor plans
Net area
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After openings
System
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Per-wall assigned
Illustrative breakdown — quantities and prices shown as placeholders, not actual Vega output.
Every masonry system carries an installed price per square foot, split into material and labor. Reinforcement, free-standing wall footing, and labor adjustments are all separate priced lines.
Priced lines in the estimate
Labor adjustments
Labor is based on an installed $/SF split into material and labor — not crew rates, production rates, or man-hours. Every price is editable through Cost Library overrides.
Vega’s trade workflows help separate overlapping construction scope — so masonry, exteriors, structural concrete, and rebar each own their part of the building.
Masonry
Exteriors
Structural Concrete
Rebar
Vega’s trade workflows help separate overlapping scope. A CMU foundation wall warns when Structural Concrete is also active; full-wall stone moves to Masonry when the veneer scope is on; masonry reinforcement stays in Masonry while structural rebar stays in Rebar.
AI assists with wall measurement and masonry-spec interpretation. The estimator controls the masonry assignment, wall heights, scope, waste, pricing, labor, and adjustments. This is the truth boundary the estimate is built on.
AI ASSISTS WITH
YOU CONTROL
MASONRY SUBCONTRACTORS
Focus on the wall area, net masonry area, and the full CMU, brick, and stone takeoff — and carry it into a trade-specific bid without rebuilding the takeoff from scratch.
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Estimate masonry alongside structural concrete, rebar, and exteriors — one building footprint, one project, one proposal — instead of rebuilding each scope.
Masonry estimating software helps contractors turn construction plans into masonry wall quantities — wall area, opening deductions, net masonry area, block and brick counts, reinforcement, and free-standing wall footing — and then into material and labor pricing and a reviewable estimate. Vega is built around that workflow for masonry subcontractors, bricklayers, block masons, stone masons, and estimators.
Yes. Vega measures CMU wall area from floor-plan geometry, deducts window and door openings to calculate net masonry area, and derives block quantities from the net area. The estimator assigns residential or commercial CMU to the appropriate walls, and reinforcement estimating is available using every-4-ft and every-cell schemes. The result is a reviewable, editable CMU estimate with material and labor pricing.
Yes. Vega supports full clay brick and thin brick veneer. The estimator assigns the brick system to measured walls, and Vega derives brick quantities from the net wall area after opening deductions. Brick walls carry no reinforcement line — a brick wythe has no cells to grout. Material and labor are priced from an editable installed unit cost split into material and labor.
Yes. Vega supports manufactured stone veneer, natural stone veneer, full-thickness or full-bed stone, stone accents such as a chimney or wainscot, and dry-stack stone. The estimator assigns the stone system to the appropriate walls, and Vega measures the stone area from floor-plan geometry with opening deductions. Full-wall stone belongs to the Masonry trade; small stone accents are also supported here.
Yes. Vega measures floor-plan wall geometry to establish wall lengths, per-wall heights, and masonry wall areas. The estimator then assigns the masonry system — CMU, brick, thin brick, stone veneer, natural stone, or dry-stack — to the appropriate walls using the plan canvas. Window and door openings are deducted from gross wall area to calculate net masonry area. This is an AI-assisted, estimator-controlled workflow — not a one-click automatic masonry takeoff.
Yes. Vega uses window and door information from the schedules to deduct opening area from gross masonry wall area. Window and door widths come from the schedule; heights default by type. The net masonry area — gross wall SF minus opening SF — is the basis for material quantities and waste allowances. Openings are pro-rated to each masonry system’s share of the gross wall area.
Yes. Vega derives CMU block count from net masonry area divided by the block face area, plus a material waste allowance. Brick count is derived from net area multiplied by bricks per square foot, plus waste. These are estimating and ordering quantities — they help you order material, and they are not individually visually detected. Vega does not calculate pallet, cube, or bundle quantities, or individual rebar piece counts.
Yes. Each masonry system carries an installed price per square foot, split into material and labor using a per-family labor share. Additional adjustments can include a multi-story access premium, a complexity dial, a union or non-union factor, and contingency. Reinforcement is priced as a separate additive assembly for CMU. Free-standing wall footing is priced per linear foot where applicable. Every unit price and labor assumption is editable.
Yes. You can add, delete, move, and resize walls, assign or change the masonry system per wall, edit wall heights, edit window and door schedule information, change reinforcement assumptions, adjust the waste factor, edit material pricing, edit labor assumptions, include or exclude estimate lines, and add custom lines. Every quantity and price is editable, and the estimate recomputes with every change.
Yes. Vega can include CMU reinforcement estimating using reinforcement schemes such as every-four-foot and every-cell conditions. The scheme can be auto-armed from the wall height, load-bearing flag, and occupancy, and the estimator can adjust the reinforcement assumption before pricing. Reinforcement is priced as an additive assembly separate from the installed wall price. Brick and stone families carry no reinforcement line. Vega does not design reinforcement or provide structural engineering.
See how Vega turns floor plans into masonry wall area, net masonry area, a full CMU, brick, and stone takeoff, and a reviewable masonry estimate.