Trayline

Email a drawing.
Get the BOQ back.

Trayline is an estimating engineer for cable tray. It reads your layout, measures every run and fitting, prices it, and replies on the same thread within minutes. It is software, and every reply says so.

Send your first drawing Watch a reply arrive
PDF, DXF and DWG. UAE rates in AED with VAT, or your own rate card.
1 800 300×50 L2 estimating desk · beta drawing BOQ PDF 3D
Behind the address: a desk that never closes.Not to scale
Forward the enquiry, drawing attached, to estimating@synopsetech.com

This is the whole workflow.

No portal, no upload form, no account to create. The estimator lives at an email address. Your team already knows how to use it.

  1. Forward the client's enquiry with the drawing attached.
  2. The desk converts, measures and prices it.
  3. The reply lands on the same thread, with the files.
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pump-house-E401.dwg · 2.1 MB
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From Trayline Estimating Desk <estimating@synopsetech.com>09:41
ReEnquiry: cable tray for pump house E-401

Hello Ahmed, Thank you for the enquiry. I received pump-house-E401.dwg and took it off as drawn. 21 runs · 136.3 m of tray · 12 fittings Ladder tray 300×50 to 600×100, hot-dip galvanised, supports at 1.5 m. Priced in AED with 5% VAT. One assumption to confirm: level 2 risers read as 600×100, the same as the feed.

pump-house-E401-BOQ.xlsx pump-house-E401-Quotation.pdf Open the 3D board
The board shows every run in 3D, with the ledger beside it. Change a size or a level and the BOQ updates.

Three things come back. All of them ready to send on.

BOQ workbook.xlsx
ItemSpecQtyAED
Ladder tray300×50 HDG48.0 m3,120
Ladder tray600×100 HDG88.3 m9,271
Bend 90°600×10061,380
Tee600×1002640
Riser600×10041,040
Couplers, boltsset91728
Supportstrapeze 1.5 m965,760
Total incl. 5% VAT24,301
Standard lengths, couplers, supports and weights worked out per run. Consultant per-metre format on a second sheet.
QuotationA4 .pdf
QUOTATION
Per-metre inclusive price first, itemised second, compliance table and open questions. Validity 15 days.
3D boardlink
300×50 L1600×100 L2riser
Every run, fitting and support on the drawing, with a ledger and a chat that changes sizes, levels and rules on the spot.

What the desk does between the two emails.

The same steps a good estimator takes with a scale rule and a highlighter. Done in under a minute, and written down so you can check it.

1

Reads the drawing as drawn

DWG, DXF or PDF. Finds the tray layers, the scale from the title block, and the callouts. Reads outlined callouts the way you would, and says which ones it could not.

2

Builds the route

Joins runs at corners and tees, carries sizes along straight legs, follows levels through risers, and places every fitting where the lines meet.

3

Prices it your way

Standard lengths, couplers, supports per span, weights by section. UAE presets in AED with VAT, or your own rate card and margins.

4

Replies, and asks when unsure

States every assumption in the reply. If a tray colour or a level is ambiguous, it asks you before it guesses. You answer on the thread.

It sits inside your own Microsoft 365. Your drawings never leave your domain.

The desk is a shared mailbox in your tenant, created by your admin. The estimator is allowed to read that one mailbox and nothing else. Your IT can verify the restriction in one command, and revoke it in one more.

  • No licence needed for the desk mailbox.
  • Replies come from your domain, threaded, in your Sent Items.
  • Drawings are processed and deleted on a schedule you set.
  • Remove the app and the desk is gone. Nothing is left behind.
Test-ApplicationAccessPolicy, run on our own tenant
estimating@synopsetech.comGranted
the managing director's mailboxDenied
every other mailboxDenied
Graph read, any other mailbox403

Honest about being software.

It signs as the Trayline Estimating Desk. It does not pretend to be a person. It shows its working, so your estimator can check a number in seconds instead of redoing the take-off in hours.

12 sfrom the drawing landing to the reply leaving, on our test pump house.
3 fileson every reply: workbook, quotation, board link.
0 uploadsyour team learns nothing new. Forward an email.
One thing to confirm before I price the risers: The two vertical runs by grid C-4 are drawn on the tray layer but carry no size. The feed into them is 600×100. I have priced them as 600×100 and marked the rows in the workbook. If they are 300×50, reply with "risers 300x50" and I will reissue the quotation. — Trayline Estimating Desk (software)
Beta

Your first ten drawings are free. Send the first one now.

estimating@synopsetech.com
Forward the enquiry as you received itAttach the drawing. PDF, DXF or DWG. Say the tray type or the spec if you know it.
Read the reply, check the assumptionsEvery size, level and finish it inferred is written down. Answer on the thread to change any of them.
Send the quotation onOr open the board and adjust before you do. During the beta we watch every job and tell you what we changed.

Want it on your own domain? Reply to any desk email and ask. Setup in your tenant takes an afternoon.