🏠 Overview
Roof Wizard is AppliCad’s software for roofing takeoffs and estimating.
You use it to:
Measure and model roofs (from plans or on-screen)
Calculate quantities for roofing and related items
Generate estimates, reports, and material lists
Reduce manual calculations and improve consistency
It’s designed for roofing businesses and estimating teams who want accuracy, speed, and repeatable results.
📌 What can you do with it?
📐 Measure & calculate
Roof areas and pitch-related calculations
Ridge, hip, valley, and edge lengths
Openings and penetrations (e.g., skylights, vents)
📦 Create material quantities
Roofing (metal, tile, shingle—depending on your setup)
Flashings and trims
Gutters and downpipes/downspouts
Fixings (screws/nails), underlayment, battens/purlins, and more
🔁 Export & integrate with other systems
Rollformer exports: send profiles and cut information (where supported) to your roll forming / manufacturing equipment to reduce double-handling and manual entry
Accounting exports: push job details and costing data into accounting software for smoother invoicing and job tracking
Job management exports: share quantities, product lists, and job info with job management software to help scheduling, ordering, and end-to-end workflow
📄 Produce outputs for quoting and ordering
Material/quantity reports
Cut lists (where applicable)
Summary sheets for quoting
Job documentation you can share with customers or suppliers
✅ Who is Roof Wizard for?
Typical users
Roofing contractors
Estimators / quoting teams
Roofing suppliers and manufacturing businesses
Estimating bureaus