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BB toolsets and GIS PDF overlay
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BB toolsets and GIS PDF overlay
Brand new to Revu 21. On a utility locating team. We’d like to up our game with the mapping documents we present to the client upon job completion. Need to:
– have a way to overlay GIS/terrain snapshot of client site on BB PDF at the outset of job scheduling.
– Add data points from locate to BB PDF. Utility markers (power RED, gas YELLOW, water BLUE, Telco/Fiber ORANGE, sewer GREEN) and all waypoints and terminal points. eg, manhole covers, pedestals, underground terminations, and utility poles..
Have I come to the right place to learn how to configure BB to allow something SIMILAR to this screenshot?
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Points: 26,364Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt
Welcome to UChapter2 @sudsy !
You are definitely in the right place to explore the capabilities of Revu.
My primary use of Revu is for civil construction takeoff – which can be very similar to the image you displayed. What are you using to develop these documents currently?
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Points: 23,485Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III
Welcome to the group @sudsy
You can definitely create a layout exactly like the one you shared. All you need is a handful of custom markup tools as you mention. You can easily import an image from Google Earth or some other source on a document as your base drawing (or overlay a civil/site plan).
- Make sure when you create a screenshot of the image that you include the Scale. This way you can calibrate the drawing and have accurate measurements.
- Go to Menu Bar at the top and select Tools>Markup>Image>From File
- After you navigate to the image and load it, streach the image to fit the drawing or document.
- At this point select the image and Lock it in the Properties panel so you don’t accidently move it. (I actually Flatten it in most cases)
- Now you can mark up over top of the image all you want.
Hope this helps.
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Points: 172Rank: UC2 Brainery Newbie
I am also new to BB and really enjoy using it since coming from HCSS Plans. I have just started doing this exact same task. Overlay drawn object from Trimble TBC. When my plots from TBC have a larger sheet print size. Once I do a “copy page to snapshot” and paste to the master page. I go to the properties of the snapshot and change the “document width and height” to match the master sheet size and so far that has work to match the scale.
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