[Troy DeGroot]

So when you hold your Shift key it doesn’t allow you to add or remove the grips from the perimeter? Seems odd, like a shutdown, restart, unplug, spin in your chair three times kind of IT issue. I’m not sure what would cause that.

[Matt Hackman]

Have to shake out those computer gremels somehow!

[David Cutler]

I can add control points without issue, but I can’t move them or remove them.

I haven’t tried spinning around in my chair 3 times yet though…🤣

[Doug McLean]

you forgot hold your eyebrows at different levels

[Doug McLean]

Mostly, I’ve had this happen to me while trying to edit a Space.

I’m wondering is it every control point, or just certain ones? He didn’t use dynamic fill to create the markup did he?

[Thomas Perry]

I’ve been here before – not sure why – but I ended up recreating measurements quickly recreate the measurements I’d use dynamic fill, some tips/guide below.

Unless you’re in a rare instance where layers can be shut off to show only the outline you need to measure it’s best to copy the measurement to a new sheet, recreate quickly, and copy back.

1. Copy the area measurements to a new BLANK sheet (ideally the same size sheet with scale set to the same as original sheet). Use CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste in exact location on sheet as original drawing;
2. If necessary adjust appearance so there are no captions, hatches, fills, 100% opacity, and a continuous linetype;
3. Flatten the measurements, you should now have a flat ‘vector’ linework of his original areas;
4. Use dynamic fill to quickly re-create, select area measurement, and hit apply;
5. CTRL+C to copy your new measurements and back on the original drawing: hit CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste in the same location.

Hopefully the grips on the new measurement can now be manipulated to your needs.

[David Cutler]

Great solution @TPERRY21 ! Thank you for replying.

I don’t think that the young man knows how to use dynamic fill @Doug McLean so I don’t think that is the issue.

The mystery continues…

Dave

[David Cutler]

I tried your process this morning @TPERRY21 and it worked pretty well.

I was pleasantly surprised that Revu would recognize the flattened markup as a “fillable” line. I think as a group we have discussed this in the past, without the flattening step, and found that a markup didn’t work as a boundary. Your process proves that wrong! Thank you again for sharing this.

One thing I did find interesting is that the dynamic fill “spilled” out of the flattened markup in multiple areas. I would have thought that Revu would create a “tight” markup.

I’m still not convinced that dynamic fill is my favorite tool. I find that it ends up with what I would describe as “random” extra points that I find myself going back to remove. Might be user error or sensitivity settings, but that is probably better left for another discussion.

Thank you again for your response post Terry!

[Troy DeGroot]

Great idea with the flattened markup @TPERRY21

You’re right that Dynamic Fill doesn’t recignise the linework of markups until they are flattened.

Thanks for adding to the group and taking the time with the steps!

[David Cutler]

An update!

We have been provided updated drawings for this project. In addition to overlaying pages to identify differences I copy the previous takeoff markups and apply them to the new drawings, modifying them as required to match the new curb lines, sidewalk limits, etc. I started having the same problem again with not being able to adjust points. What I did this time is choose “yes” when I was prompted to remove the “Untitled” viewports when I opened the new file. That seems to have cleared up most (but not all?) of the issues…