Way to bring in materials pricing from supplier

[cbucks]

I just switched from soft plan and I see Chief has a materials list. Is there a way to bring in material pricing from local supplier to give semi realtime costs?

[Chopsaw]

Check the Manual/ help file under " Structural Member Reporting "  

 

You can manually enter pricing for the Buy List or Linear Length reports in the Structural Member Reporting Defaults.

[cbucks]

Thanks is there a way to export current list say to csv or to excel without prices enter the prices and import it back with the prices?

[Chopsaw]

You can export and import a custom or default list between plan files but I don't think you will be able to achieve any sort of a direct live link with excel unfortunately.  You can export your material list to excel and add the prices and do your calculations but getting it back into the program is the issue without breaking the link.

 

You could do a little more research into the file format (.calumber ) but it is most likely as it appears "Chief Architect Lumber " and proprietary formatting.