[Troy DeGroot]

What do you mean they are in the wrong order? You can drag the columns in the markups list to reorder them however you need. If you would rather import your custom columns, you can do that through the Manage Columns window. You might need to open a drawing with our custom columns and export them before so you know where the file is to import. This will override the existing columns so you can use yours.

[David Cutler]

Thank you @troy-degroot that did the trick, and wasn’t too painful.

I guess that I will have to add “check for other custom columns/import custom columns if needed” into my workflow.

[Vince French]

Hi @David Cutler – can you save a new version, flatten the drawing and just import your columns?

[Troy DeGroot]

good point @Vince if you want to remove the markup data from the previous person. Thanks for adding!

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the suggestion @Vince – in this case they only have a few “Cloud+” markups that I need to maintain. Then again if I flatten them I would have the information, but not have to work around them…

[Vince French]

@David Cutler if you want to keep their mark-ups as they are then why not save them into a new layer and then turn that off whilst doing your measuring?

[David Cutler]

That’s a great suggestion @Vince

Thank you,

Dave

[David Cutler]

I was running out to a meeting when I discovered this issue and made a quick post to start getting the community engaged. Here is a better explanation.

I have a number of custom tools built with 5 custom columns that I need to export as a .CSV for my workflow shown in the first screenshot below. These tools work great and are the foundation of my workflow.

When I started my takeoff in the customer supplied file I noticed that they also have custom columns setup (kudos to the customer to be using custom columns). The challenge is that while the data from my custom tool is being captured, it is being displayed in other columns as shown in the second screenshot below (Item number “80” shows as Phase, Description of “18” Silt Fence” shows as Floor, Unit of Measure of “LF” shows as Area).

What makes it even more interesting is that my “standard” markups that I apply when I insert my cover sheet populate correctly, but the “Phase” item is not in the standard order as shown in the 3rd screenshot below.

I’m thinking that I can go back to the original file, delete their custom columns and then import mine. Just seems to be an additional step to have to “scrub” someone else’s custom columns to use mine.

[Troy DeGroot]

If you import the custom column file, it should replace all the custom columns that come from the customer’s file. In other words, you should have to delete them before you import them… 🤞🤞