I’d go for perimeter markups rather than polylength so that as many markups as possible can be click and drag rectangles, then I would make sensible compromises/subtractions for doorways and nooks. Waste ratios in base are relatively high. If it’s the exact same base spec in every single room then you can just make two tools, one for “Base…

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I think the backend / initial set up of the formula column is definitely confusing. Luckily bluebeam allows for these configurations to persist in saved profiles. The frontend use is very approachable to anyone with estimating experience. All of these concepts should be familiar to them and I’ve had good results onboarding people to…

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There are some good ideas here, but also some areas that may confuse others on your team. I read you are the only one in your role, so it works great. When I build tools for customers, I always build them for the intern that hasn’t been hired yet. It should be teachable so they intuitively trip into doing things correctly. If they go out of…

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My super hacky conditional column setup described in this Bluebeam community thread allows for what you’re wanting. Long story short, it exploits a weird math equality to allow for me to create a select column called “cost type” which determines how the cost is calculated in the total column. I have options for the following:

– “Cost x M”…

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I do something similar.
What I have is a custom column called “Floor Multiplier”; Just set your default to 1.
Then you can simply do the math.

No worries @dchambers ! I appreciate that you took the time to respond. 😎

Glad to be of assistance @dchambers !

Out of curiosity, seeing your response to @troy-degroot , is there a reason why you wouldn’t simply apply 6 markups where you see them being needed in the elevation view? This is what I do with pipe fittings. That way our project manager can not only see the count, but also where I saw the pieces being…

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Sorry about replying to you @DavidCutler under Troy’s question. This is my first time posting. Thanks again for the work around.

I have a floor plan that shows an outside corner. As a generality lets say that gets 2 trim pieces per floor. With a split screen open to the elevation, I see there are 3 floors. I need to put a Count item on the elevation and I want to be able to type “6” as the count. I need that to go into the measurements field on the markup list if…

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That worked great. I just have to make sure to select the original item when merging them back in. The biggest advantage for this method is that it gets the count value into the Measurements column for exporting. Even if I forget the Merge step, the pivot table of export data still sums it up for me. Thank You!

@dchambers I’m not sure I understand your question. Do you have a drawing or some sort of example?

Interesting question @dchambers – had to think about this for a minute.

Something that might work for you is to use the “multiply” tool.

Sequence would work like this:

1. Apply a count markup

2. Select the markup, right click and choose “Multiply” from the popup menu

3. Enter the number of copies of the markup that you need

– note that if…

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I need a tool that I can manually type the count value. I am literally counting corner trim with my finger and need a way to record it on the drawing for reference later and most importantly, so that it can be part of the markup takeoff export to excel. Ideally having the typed count end up in the Measurements Column would be great but at…

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I’m on 21.9 but haven’t had an issues like this so far.

I’m on 21.9

I’m still on 21.8, and I haven’t had this issue.

I’ve had this happen a couple of times over the last month or so – nothing this week though.

What version of Revu are you running @bb-user ? I’m still hanging back in Revu 21.6.

I haven’t kept track of what I’ve been doing when it shuts down @troy-degroot – or which files. Basically too frustrated when it shuts down to take notice!

Was it while working with certain markups, or just random?

Multiple files

Are you having trouble with the same file, or does it happen no matter what file is open?

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.