Add accessories to an estimate item

Accessories are commonly used items that you can add to items in your estimating jobs. You can create accessories for items such as stiffeners, base plates, or embeds. Accessories can also be linked to specific material shapes and sizes, so that they can only be added to items of that shape and size. Accessories need to be applied manually.

We recommend that you create, modify, and delete accessories in Accessory Maintenance. You can also create accessories in an estimating job, but these job-specific accessories cannot be saved to the accessory library, so they cannot be reused in other estimating jobs. See Manage accessories.

Note: You can also add an accessory by typing the part number of the accessory in the Part # field.

Open an Estimating job.

The Estimating dialog box opens.
Select the item for which you want to add an accessory.
Click the Estimating ribbon tab.
On the menu, select Add Accessory.

The Select Accessory dialog box opens.

The dialog box lists all of the predefined accessories that can be applied to the selected part on the estimate.

If the accessory list is empty, there are no accessories linked to the selected material shape and size. In these cases, you can either create a new accessory or create a job-specific accessory. See Create an accessory and Create a job-specific accessory.
In the accessory list, select the accessory that you want to add.
Select or clear the checkboxes at the bottom of the dialog box according to your needs.
Click Add Selected.

The Select Accessory dialog box closes.

The accessory is added as the last item of the selected page in the Estimating dialog box.

Accessories have the same input fields and properties as other estimating items. In addition, accessories have a description.