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Design Estimate
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The Design Estimate tool allows you to associate costs with the design feature classes (DFCs) in your express design or view the total cost of the current express design. The top half of the Manage Cost tab displays cost items. The bottom half of the Manage Cost tab displays information about the design features added to the current express design. The Summary tab summarizes the express design's cost.
Click Design Estimate 
to display the Design Estimate window. Click the red X in the top right corner to close the Design Estimate window.
Use the Manage Cost tab to assign cost items to the DFCs in your express design.
To assign a cost item to a DFC, select the DFC in the bottom window, then select a cost item above. There are a few ways to assign the selected cost item to the selected DFC. You can double-click the cost item, use the arrows between the top and bottom windows, or drag the cost item and drop it on the DFC. If you double click a cost item, the Add Cost Item window will open if it is selected as an option.
You can easily assign a cost item to multiple DFCs. Use the Shift or Ctrl key to select multiple DFCs, then use one of the methods described above to assign the cost item to all selected DFCs.
Some DFCs may already have cost items assigned. This is because the cost item was assigned when the DFC was added to the palette. After you assign cost items to the DFCs, they are displayed in the bottom half of the window by expanding the DFCs.
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Cost Items and Split or Divided Design Features When you split a linear design feature (e.g., using the ArcFM Segment Split AU), any cost items associated with the original design feature are assigned to the two design features resulting from the split. If you use Esri's Divide tool, you must select the checkbox labeled "Delete the selected feature" in order for the cost items associated with the original design feature to be associated with the resulting features. If you do not select this checkbox, Designer Express views the resulting design features as newly created features and will not assign any cost items to them. |
Figure 1, Cost items are displayed in the white rows. Blue rows are the DFCs.
Anytime you select a feature in the design costs lists, it is highlighted in red on the map.
Figure 2, DFCs selected in the Design Estimate are highlighted in red on the map.
There are two filter tools provided to manage how design features are displayed in the bottom window. In the example below, a meter is selected in the Design Estimate window and its representation on the map is highlighted in red.
button filters the design features displayed in the bottom window by what is selected in the map. If you have two design features selected in the map, only those two design features are displayed in the Design Estimate bottom window. If you have no features selected in the map, all design features are displayed regardless of this filter setting.
button filters the design features displayed in the bottom window by the search criteria entered in the Search field.
Figure 3, Filter by Feature
The Summary tab displays a summary of costs for the current express design. The values in price column and Total field are rounded to the nearest penny.
Figure 4, Summary tab
The Export button allows you to export the cost summary information to either Excel or a web browser. How this data is exported (Excel or web browser) is determined by your Administrator during configuration. Click Export to display the data in the chosen format. The sample below is the default stylesheet.
