My bluebeam has been shutting down by itself for the last two weeks or so.

Has anyone else experienced this?

One thing to remember is that an area markup has a length component consisting of the perimeter length. If you click and drag the area of a rectangular room, the length will reflect the base quantity.

I think that the move away from ‘standard’ types to virtually everything being bespoke is a universal thing now.

Here in the UK we have housing developers building large schemes – 100 to 1,000 or more homes on a scheme. 20 years ago, each developer would have a set of standard housetypes (less than 10 I would say) with maybe the odd change…

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Its a problem with all the finishing trades. There isn’t a easy solution for any of our takeoffs

I don’t think this is a solution, but I really hate not having a good answer. If you use Dynamic Fill, you can pull the length measurement from the perimeter of the filled area……

Thanks for the input.

Sounds like a similar flow to what I’m doing.

Try to do only unit types, but more and more projects are having so many unit types (almost no repeats per floor).

I have gone through doorways, but didn’t find much time savings. I am pretty fast at doing the takeoffs, but as my role expands at my current company, I am trying…

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I feel you.

Two things I HATE doing. Window Sills and Baseboard. Both very time consuming. Might be something to try when the AI gets better.

When I do these on large scale projects I tend to only do one of each unit type.
Then with two custom columns, Floor Multiplier and Quantity, that will get me close enough for all that I need to take off.…

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It looks like you are using the Snap to Content, which would be my first suggestion. Is there any way you can measure through each doorway and use that as waste rather than getting into all the fine details of small bumpouts? Just thinking, some of those very small pieces can be very time-consuming to trace over. Others in the group might also have ideas.

It’s more on the side of the actual tracings that I would like to find a faster solution. A lot of the projects don’t have repetitive units, as shown in that screenshot (probably not the best screenshot to use). For instance, it will be 16 units per floor in a 6-story wood-frame building. 2-5 are the same layout, so that’s easy, but every…

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You could create a custom column in the markup list for the “Unit Type”. Then create a custom column for “# Thus”, and finally a custom column for totals where you multiply all your quantities * # Thus. Adding the Unit Type simply allows you to organize your markups and keep things straight.

Hi All,

I handle a large volume of finish carpentry estimating—primarily doors, baseboard, and windowsills. My overall workflow is solid, but the baseboard portion continues to be a bottleneck.

Right now, I trace every area that requires base, and while I do use groups to copy/paste repeated unit layouts, the process is still very…

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You can delete and add legends as you see fit; it’s just referencing the data in the markups list, it doesn’t affect the data at all. Just remember, the data can only be in one legend at a time.

Great questions on Legends @maryann-campos !

Removing a legend is pretty straight forward – it’s similar to your other markup. Simply select the legend and tap the delete key. 😎

You and I created one during our class. Would this effect my creating a new one now? If so, how can I delete the one created during our virtual course?

Do you have more than one legend created for the same counts? Sometimes that happens by accident. Bluebeam only allows the information to be in one legend; it will clear the others once you create a new one.

Thank you for your fast response!

However, this didn’t do the trick for me (user error)… Here is a snapshot of the legend that is created using the steps you provided. It does not show any information from my counts and measuments below, in the legend.

Great question @maryann-campos, and welcome to the Brainery!

There are a couple of different ways to create a Legend.

1. select all the markups on the drawing, right-click, and select Legend > Create New Legend. This will create a legend of only the material you selected. You don’t have to select all of them, just one and it will report the…

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I am having some difficulties creating a legend. Can you please remind me how to do so at your earliest convenience?

I appreciate your help in advance.

I wouldn’t hold you breath on this one @DavidCutler !

I quite often swap between the two @DavidCutler when I look at room sizes in houses. I use feet and inches when I look at the actual size of the room, the door sizes, etc. but when it comes to measuring things like skirting boards (base boards?), architraves, etc. then I do that in metres.
I guess that’s what comes from doing a Carpentry &…

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They made this available in 18.1 or something.

Learned something here @troy-degroot ! I hadn’t really thought of it before, but just because the scale of the drawing is Metric, the tool can measure in Imperial. That’s pretty slick.

For @bb-user if you have already applied markups using tools that measure in Metric units, but you are looking for Imperial values you could select all of…

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on my printed document the scale of each drawing section is different. So if a measurement is 60 MM in one view I have to make another viewpoint scaled area for a different area. Which is the same as in Imperial. But I was looking for a way just set the scale. I think i got it on normal views It might say 1:2 so I do a 1mm = 2mm and it works.…

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I don’t know how to do that..

To confirm my understanding, all the dimensions on the printed drawing are in metric, and you’re converting each one manually? I know it would be tedious to do markup measurement for each of the already dimensioned elements, but I feel like it would be faster than the math to convert them. If they are already Bluebeam measurements, you can…

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Unfortunately, that doesn’t allow them to keep the counts and work they’ve already completed. Thanks for responding with your thoughts @isaac-harned

That’s an interesting question @bb-user

Have you considered adding a couple of custom columns with a conversion factor and a formula to apply the factor to the metric measurement for conversion?

I’d expect @doug mclean might have some thoughts on this one as he works with both metric and imperial measurements on a regular basis.

Only solution without slip sheeting is to kill the sequence (Flatten/Unflatten)

HI, I have some drawings that are measured in Metric.

Is there a download or something to so I can measure a line in Metric and it gives me the Imperial measurement. I have been doing each one by hand now with the calibration and looking up on a conversion site to see what the metric line amounts to in Imperial.

Thanks

If you go to the Tools menu, all the way at the bottom, you will see Reuse. Make sure that is turned on. Also, if you go to Tools > Toolbars make sure the Status Bar is turned on. This will show a toolbar at the bottom-right of your interface, where you will see a button to turn on the Reuse Markup Tool. Some other important button on there…

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I have version 21.8. Just got new computer and now when I make a mark up and want to make another one I have to reclick item again in recent. Before I could make one mark up then make another. Is this a setting? thx

Some companies want linear footage, while others want tonnage. The formula for Tonnage is definitely easier and more consistent. Thanks for circling back @dhwalkellc .