[Troy DeGroot]

Looking at the images, I’m not completely sure I understand…

It looks like you created a link to the Space around the elevation view. You then added the link information to the markup comments on the plan.

The better workflow is to create the Space the same way you did by naming it specifically according to the elevation. Then go back to the plan, right-click the elevation highlight, and select Edit Action. In the Edit Action window, select “Jump to” and select the document where the elevation lives. Next, go to the pulldown menu next to spaces and select the elevation space. Now when you click the highlight tag it will bring you to that Space.

I’m not 100% sure I understood the question, but I hope this helped.

[John Park]

Hi Troy,

Thanks for responding to my question.

My workflow aims to not only create a link for easy navigation but also to perform takeoffs from elevation drawings, incorporating the location hierarchy from the floor plan, especially when dealing with multiple rooms sharing a common elevation drawing.

What you suggested is what I’m currently doing, but I’m trying to improve it by eliminating the tedious extra step of creating link markups. Sometimes, I mistype space names, which breaks the intended link.

If I were to use a hyperlink from the Space Panel to designate the action destination, I noticed that the hyperlink placed on the drawing includes the space name along with its X and Y positions (see the cloud area in the right panel in hyperlink.pdf). Since a hyperlink is not a markup, the Markups List does not show them. However, if I can export the Bluebeam space list with name, page index, X & Y coordinates, and boundary, I should be able to write a custom program to connect each hyperlink with the spaces that contain it. This would allow me to link the location hierarchy with elevation takeoffs without the extra step of creating link markup.

I hope this clarifies my approach and the reason for wanting to export the space list.

Thanks again,

John

[Doug McLean]

I accomplish this by doing a layered Space of Floor-Room-Elevation.
Then I drop a tool in the Elevation Space that is the Millwork Callout, i.e. MW 01.

Then on the elevation drawings, I create another Space labeled MW 01, which I do all my takeoff in.

While they don’t hyperlink together, in most cases the elevation callout does serve as a hyperlink to the elevation.

Later, I can tie everything back together in Excel using the Millwork Callout and the corresponding Space.

[John Park]

Hi Doug,

I’m not clear where you are placing Millwork Callout, ie MW 01. On nested space from plan drawing?

[Doug McLean]

its just a Text box tool placed in the elevation pat of the Space.
This is how they look once complete.

You could add the hyperlink to the Millwork Callout instead of just a blank box

[Doug McLean]

the Hyperlink off a Space needs to be fixed. In a word its clunky.

Troy has the workflow pretty well laid out, its just too manual for my liking