[Vince]

Hi David,

Yes, it does appear to be rather good.

I’m using it to offset oversite areas for pile mats – mark up the oversites but if they are closer than say 3m use a ‘thin’ area to join them together. Then simple ask Bluebeam to offset by whatever distance you want and create a new markup. The can then be changed to the piling mat tool with the magic wand.

Very quick and also very accurate!

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the feedback @Vince ! Looking forward to seeing how this impacts our workflows. 😎

[Doug McLean]

its pretty cool.

Watching Luke do the Offset as function opened my eyes a little.

I tried it out and showed my team, and we all were a little blown away

[Troy DeGroot]

Thanks for sharing David. It seems to me that when he offset, it was just a markup, but I believe you could still convert it to your custom tool after. For now anyway. Exciting times.

[David Cutler]

Maybe @troy-degroot that will be a future upgrade. Could work similarly to the way you can assign your custom markup tool with dynamic fill.

Until then I think @Vince has the “working” solution with the “magic wand”. Still potentially a 2 or 3 click process, but if you are saving dozens of clicks on a markup by re-using the geometry you will still be more efficient…

[Vince]

@DavidCutler I have tried out a couple of other things as well using Claude – some work but some don’t.

One interesting one, I asked Claude to look at a set of duplicated markets in a 60 page (well that is what I think it was) document. Then, after pointing to the open file, I used a line of code as follows: –

“With the “Area Measurement” markups, any that are within a Space ending with ” – PILED” need to be changed to “Ground Beams – Type 1” markup and the remainder want to be changed to the “Foundation Footprint” markup.”

It worked!

[David Cutler]

Very cool @Vince !

Something I’m curious to see is how the “magic wand” works with custom columns and such. Hopefully it is more powerful than the current format painter…

[Vince]

It will change all of the information to that of the new tool @DavidCutler .

Therefore, you have to be careful of one thing – if you have already entered any information into custom columns then this will be lost.

This is a small price to pay for everything else being changed in one go though.

I’ll try to do some demos of how I’m using this feature soon.

[David Cutler]

Your videos are a great introduction to the functionality @Vince !

For those who haven’t seen them yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIemTPpXWcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8AkXr3rUQ

One question Vince – In the Part 2 video at about the 2:00 mark does the “Ctrl” key launch the “magic wand” functionality? What you are doing here – reusing the existing geometry as Luke described it, is exactly what will get me to upgrade to Max…

Thank you for the videos as always!

Dave

[Vince]

Hi @DavidCutler – yes – at the 2:00 mark I’m using the magic wand to change the new perimeter markup into the kerbs from my Tool Chest.

[Doug McLean]

Not sure how it’ll work eventually, but in the beta, you could only access your custom tools with Convert to via a keyboard shortcut.

All in all MAX is pretty cool if you do a lot of the things that they show you it can do. I think they will probably get a lot of Revit users signed up as well because of the new integrations there.