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Line Position for Polylength Takeoff
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Line Position for Polylength Takeoff
One feature that I enjoyed about Planswift is that when building custom tools for a linear takeoff you could select whether the line would be centered, or aligned left, or aligned right between the two end points you’ve selected.
I’ve been pecking around but haven’t found a way to replicate this in Bluebeam. Maybe I could upload custom line styles that would allow me to accomplish it. Has anyone played with this?
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Points: 9,007Rank: UC2 Brainery Purple Belt IIII
You can fix this in custom line styles and you can probably make a much better markup by including some text as well.
Below is a line style I created for measuring the masonry in foundations: –
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Points: 7,771Rank: UC2 Brainery Purple Belt II
I’m going to second @Vince ‘s comment.
Create a custom line style. There’s an offset button to do exactly what you want.
Be careful though, the offset will be determined by which direction you make your markup.
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Points: 729Rank: UC2 Brainery White Belt II
Thanks @Vince and @doug, I’ve not worked with custom line styles yet. Could you point me toward any tutorials I could review on the process?
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Points: 3,865Rank: UC2 Brainery Orange Belt II
Check out Vince’s YouTube channel. He has a couple videos from 3 months ago where he uses some custom line styles to do offsets.
https://www.youtube.com/@vinicsurveying
I’ll let the others chime in with any additional resources.
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Points: 2,411Rank: UC2 Brainery Yellow Belt IIII
This is awesome, I must have missed the video from Vince. Was wondering myself if this was possible. Rock on!
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Points: 9,007Rank: UC2 Brainery Purple Belt IIII
As an extra note on this, if you set up a line style like shown in my picture you can get it to work easily in different scaled drawings e.g. the above was set up to work on a 1:50 scale drawing using a line thickness of 3.
If you are working on a 1:100 or 1:200 drawing all you need to do is reduce the thickness to say 1.50.
So, just adjust the line thicknesses of your tools in the actual toolboxes before you start marking up and that’s it.
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