[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @notoriouspbgcomcast-net !

Interesting use of a stamp. Curious as to how you use the information that it generates in your workflow.

I’m not a Javascript user, but my suggestion would be to work a simple “Ctrl-Z” into your process. Basically apply the stamp, make use of the data as needed and then hit “Ctrl-Z” to undo the application of the stamp. Is is possible to work a “delayed” undo into the script?

Perhaps @lizlarsen or @isaac-harned have some ideas on this.

Dave

[David Cutler]

Nice trick @troy-degroot ! And to think that it was right there on the right click menu all the time… Another great example of “you don’t know what you don’t know”!

Thank you for sharing this.

Dave

[David Cutler]

To help us get the full picture @pkkuehnel what text are you using the format painter to format? Is it another text box, callout, cloud plus markup?

[David Cutler]

My topic didn’t get picked this year @Doug McLean so I’ll be out in the audience with the tomatoes ready. 🤣

[David Cutler]

I think we need a “dislike” option for comments like this @troy-degroot !

Hopefully they will tighten things up if we keep sharing the issues with them.

Frankly I’m amazed any of this software stuff works. I wouldn’t know where to start… 🙃

[David Cutler]

Saw a post on “another site” that indicated that Bluebeam had pulled down Revu 21.6 due to an issue with the licensing and had made 21.5 available again. Might be time to reinstall 21.5 @Vince ….

[David Cutler]

Completely understand @Vince !

“Live” in New York was a couple hour car ride last year. “Unbound” in DC shows as a 3 hour drive – without traffic. So my travel cost for both of these events is pretty low. If they go back to California in 2026 that would be a different story.

[David Cutler]

Broke the new toy already @Vince ? Your IT guy isn’t going to be very happy with you. 🤣

Thank you for being out on the cutting edge on this so I can hang out and see what happens.

[David Cutler]

That’s a good question @dakotah . As far as I know Revu only allows you to sort by 1 column. Unfortunately it doesn’t have all of the functionality of Excel…

When I started using Revu exclusively for takeoffs 5 years ago I quickly found that exporting my data to Excel as a .CSV file made the information soooo much more usable. I highly recommend using Excel for your analysis, rather than trying to find work around in Revu.

Welcome to the Brainery BTW! Keep the questions coming. 🙂

[David Cutler]

Interesting about using the 3 point method with different scales/rotations. Definitely have tried that before.

I do like the trick of saving snapshot images to a scaled toolbox and the pasting the image from the toolbox onto a sheet of a different scale. I like this so much I’ve created a series of scaled toolboxes setup for 1”=10 FT, 1”=20FT, etc to 1”=60FT so that I don’t have to set a scale each time I use it. 😎

[David Cutler]

Something you might consider @notoriouspbgcomcast-net is creating a “job sheet” or “cover sheet” that could be applied as part of your workflow. The printing process could then be set to start with page 2 – or simply recycle that 1st sheet before binding.

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the reminder about that MCR episode. I remember seeing you do that live…

[David Cutler]

I was lucky with this set @Vince in that they all aligned well. Very frustrating when the don’t!

One new trick I picked up this time was using the “Match by Page Region” option – I hadn’t noticed that option before. Very handy when the page labels don’t match.

[David Cutler]

I may just work this right into my workflow going forward….

[David Cutler]

Reading your response to @Doug McLean and mine I’d suggest creating a “Sample Format” file that you could have open off to the side in a separate window. This PDF could have text boxes pre-formatted that you could select, then select the format painter and then apply back to your review document as needed.

It’s a 3 click solution, but it would get you there faster and more consistently than creating a new markup each time to format paint from and then delete.