Ramp Takeoff Workflow - How to model a sloped ramp
Ramp Takeoff Workflow
How to model a sloped ramp — deck, both side panels, safety edging, and the floor deduction underneath it — using the wall Elevation tool and the floor Divider tool.
● Draw Wall ● Elevation ● Divider
1 Draw the room and the ramp wall
Lay out the room the same way you always do — Draw, Draw Rect, or Auto Takeoff — with one thing to watch: the wall the ramp will run against needs to exist as its own selectable wall segment, since it becomes the surface you draw the ramp profile onto in the next step.
Nothing ramp-specific happens in plan view yet. The ramp’s actual shape — its rise, its run, its two sloped side panels — is generated from the wall elevation, not from anything drawn on the floor.
2 Build the ramp profile in Elevation
Select the ramp wall and click View Wall (top-right, Edit group) to open its elevation view. From the Takeoff ribbon’s Shape group, click Elevation and trace the ramp’s triangular profile against the wall.
MeasureSquare needs four measurements to build the slope correctly:
Enter these against the actual field measurements. MS8 uses them to generate the sloped deck plus the two triangular side panels automatically — you don’t draw the sides separately.
Takeoff ribbon: Elevation and Divider live in the Shape group on the left; View Wall is in the Edit group, top right. The teal outline is the room floor; the boxed shape inside it is the ramp footprint, later handled by Divider in Step 5.
3 Finish the deck, sides, and edging
Still in View Wall, click the sloped deck you just created and assign it a flooring product from Product/Service — the same way you’d apply product to any floor.
4 Match the door altitude to the ramp
If the ramp lands at a doorway or threshold, open that door’s properties and set its altitude to the ramp’s highest point from Step 2, rather than the default floor elevation. This keeps the door sill flush with the top of the ramp in the 3D model instead of floating above or cutting into it.
5 Deduct the ramp footprint with Divider
Back in plan view, select Divider (Shape group) and trace the section of floor the ramp occupies. Split it out as its own area rather than leaving it inside the flat-floor room.
This keeps the estimate clean: flat-floor square footage and ramp square footage stay as two separate line items instead of the flat product being quantified underneath a ramp that’s already covered by Step 3.
6 Verify in View3D
Switch to the View3D tab and rotate the model. Check that the slope direction and rise look right, both side panels are finished (not bare white), the top-edge safety strip is present, and the door sits flush with the top of the ramp rather than floating.
Finished result in View3D: sloped deck, both side panels rendered, edge trim along the top, and the flat floor (115) stopping cleanly at the ramp’s footprint.