Your Fabrication
Database Has
Problems You
Can't See.
FABAssist is a tool that runs inside Autodesk Fabrication ESTmep and scans your database for issues that cause bad estimates, broken exports, and wasted shop time — then helps you fix them.
Database errors are
invisible until they're
expensive.
Items with no product entry estimate at $0. Duplicate IDs corrupt takeoffs. Special characters silently break Stratus uploads. These aren't edge cases — they're in almost every Fabrication database that's been in active use for more than a year.
FABAssist runs inside ESTmep and finds all of it. Not just tells you something is wrong — shows you exactly what, where, and lets you fix it without leaving the application.
⬇ Download Free →Start free. Upgrade when
you need more.
FABAssist is free to install and use for auditing. Upgrading unlocks repair tools and PDF report export.
Full audit visibility. See everything that's wrong — no time limit, no trial.
- Run Audit — full database scan
- Dashboard with health score & metric cards
- View audit results & issue counts
- View issue details
- Item Explorer
- PDF audit report export
- Repair & fix tools
- Dynamic Product Editor
Everything free includes, plus the ability to export a branded PDF audit report to share with your team.
- Everything in Free
- ✦ PDF audit report export
- ✦ Branded report with health score & issue tables
- Repair & fix tools
- Dynamic Product Editor
- Connector & Material Find/Replace
Everything unlocked. Full audit visibility plus all repair and management tools.
- Everything in Report
- ✦ All repair & fix tools
- ✦ Dynamic Product Editor
- ✦ Connector & Material Find/Replace
- ✦ Special Characters auto-fix
- ✦ Labor Table assignment tools
Everything you need to
clean up your database.
FABAssist installs directly into ESTmep. Every tool works on your live database — no exports, no separate software, no IT involvement.
Dashboard & Audit Overview
Run a full database scan with one click. The Dashboard shows you a health score and a breakdown of every issue category — missing IDs, bad product entries, special characters, unused connectors, and more. Every card links directly to the detail view for that category.
Why it matters: Most teams don't know what's wrong until a bid is off or an export fails. This gives you a full picture before problems reach the field.
Item Explorer
Browse your entire Fabrication item library in one place. Filter by service type, CID, connector, material, and more. Click any item to see its full product list data including cost and labor rates — without opening individual files in ESTmep.
Why it matters: Finding a specific item or understanding what's in a service used to mean digging through folders or opening dozens of .ITM files. Item Explorer does it in seconds.
Dynamic Product Editor
Edit product entries for an entire service at once in a spreadsheet-style grid. Click any cell to change it, review your changes highlighted in the grid, then commit everything in one save. No opening items one by one.
Why it matters: Fixing misaligned product data across hundreds of items is the most time-consuming part of database cleanup. This tool turns a week of manual edits into an hour.
Connector & Material Find/Replace
Bulk find and replace connectors and materials across your entire item library. Select the value to find, choose its replacement, search for all affected items, then commit the change in one click. Works with both owned and user-defined database entries.
Why it matters: Swapping connectors or materials manually — and updating every item that references them — is nearly impossible without automation. This tool handles thousands of items in seconds.
Items With Identical IDs
Finds every case where two or more items share the same Product ID. Duplicate IDs corrupt MAPPROD entries, break material takeoffs, and cause silent errors in estimates and procurement. FABAssist shows each conflict group, which items are involved, and lets you reassign IDs to resolve them.
Why it matters: Duplicate IDs are one of the hardest database problems to find manually — they look fine in ESTmep but cause downstream failures that are nearly impossible to trace back to the source.
Items Without Labor Tables
Finds every item in your database that is missing a fabrication or installation labor table assignment. Items without these show $0 labor cost in all estimates — a silent error that undercuts every bid they appear in.
Why it matters: Labor table gaps are one of the most common and costly database problems. This audit surfaces all of them at once so you can work through them systematically instead of discovering them mid-estimate.
See what's in your database.
The Tools
Every tool runs inside Autodesk Fabrication ESTmep — no exports, no separate software. Install FABAssist and they're all there.
Dashboard & Audit Overview
Run a full database scan with one click. The Dashboard shows a health score and a card for every issue category — missing IDs, bad product entries, special characters, unused connectors, labor table gaps, and more. Every card links directly to the detail view for that category.
Why it matters: Most teams don't know what's wrong until a bid is off or an export fails. This gives you the full picture before problems reach the field.
Item Explorer
Browse your entire Fabrication item library in one place. Filter by service type, CID, connector, material, and more. Click any item to see its full product list data including cost and labor rates — without opening individual files in ESTmep.
Why it matters: Finding a specific item or understanding what's in a service used to mean digging through folders or opening dozens of .ITM files. Item Explorer does it in seconds.
Dynamic Product Editor
Edit product entries for an entire service at once in a spreadsheet-style grid. Click any cell to change it, review your changes highlighted in the grid, then commit everything in one save. No opening items one by one.
Why it matters: Fixing misaligned product data across hundreds of items is the most time-consuming part of database cleanup. This tool turns a week of manual edits into an hour.
Connector & Material Find/Replace
Bulk find and replace connectors and materials across your entire item library. Select the value to find, choose its replacement, search for all affected items, then commit the change in one click. Works with both owned and user-defined database entries.
Why it matters: Swapping connectors or materials manually — and updating every item that references them — is nearly impossible without automation. This tool handles thousands of items in seconds.
Items With Identical IDs
Finds every case where two or more items share the same Product ID. Duplicate IDs corrupt MAPPROD entries, break material takeoffs, and cause silent errors in estimates and procurement. FABAssist shows each conflict group, which items are involved, and lets you reassign IDs to resolve them.
Why it matters: Duplicate IDs are one of the hardest database problems to find manually — they look fine in ESTmep but cause downstream failures that are nearly impossible to trace back to the source.
Items Without Labor Tables
Finds every item in your database that is missing a fabrication or installation labor table assignment. Items without these show $0 labor cost in all estimates — a silent error that undercuts every bid they appear in.
Why it matters: Labor table gaps are one of the most common and costly database problems. This audit surfaces all of them at once so you can work through them systematically instead of discovering them mid-estimate.
Licensing
Start free. Upgrade when you need repair tools or PDF reports. No subscription traps — annual, per user, cancel anytime.
Full audit visibility. See everything that's wrong with no time limit and no trial expiry.
- Run Audit — full database scan
- Dashboard with health score & metric cards
- View audit results & issue counts
- View issue details
- Item Explorer
- PDF audit report export
- Repair & fix tools
- Dynamic Product Editor
- Connector & Material Find/Replace
Everything in Free, plus the ability to export a branded PDF audit report to share with your team or management.
- Everything in Free
- ✦ PDF audit report export
- ✦ Branded report with health score & issue tables
- Repair & fix tools
- Dynamic Product Editor
- Connector & Material Find/Replace
- Special Characters auto-fix
Everything unlocked. Full audit visibility plus all repair, fix, and management tools.
- Everything in Report
- ✦ All repair & fix tools
- ✦ Dynamic Product Editor
- ✦ Connector & Material Find/Replace
- ✦ Special Characters auto-fix
- ✦ Labor Table assignment tools
Common Questions
Audit Report