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If you’ve recently upgraded to Revu 20.2.15 then you know about the new ability to have different units of measure on the same drawing. While this is great it also has one odd little side effect that I don’t know if the Bluebeam engineers thought of.
Make sure your tools are also set up with the correct unit of measure that you want, or they will display the way they are set up. i.e. even if your scale is set to ft’=in” your tool will display in in(ches) if that’s the way the TOOL is saved.
To change it you have to go to the Properties bar and set the units for the TOOL. Make sure to save your Toolchest and your profile after. 😎
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Points: 2,823Rank: UC2 Brainery Orange Belt
Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of independently scaling X & Y?
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Points: 12,664Rank: UC2 Brainery Blue Belt II
most times you don’t need too, however there are times when a drawing has been skewed and the x and y scales are different.
I’ve also heard that Civil plans can be sent this way. -
Points: 20,914Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt
@Roro A lot of horizontal construction projects like utilities and roads have a drastically different scale in each direction. Calibrating allows Bluebeam to do the formulas for distance and area based on the two different scales. We used to have to create formulas in custom columns.
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Points: 23,432Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III
A good example of this would be if you wanted to calculate the volume of a variable depth sewer trench from a profile. Typically sewer profiles are drawn with significantly different horizontal and vertical scales as @troy-degroot mentioned. You would create a volume measurement with the “depth” set as the width of the trench. You would then select the area of the trench following the drawn pipe profile as the bottom and the ground surface as the top boundary. Bluebeam does the rest.
Note that you should think about units when you set these up. If set correctly you can get Cubic Yards directly as opposed to having to convert from Cubic Feet to Cubic Yards in another step.
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