David Cutler
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

I’m typically more of a copy/paste guy as I want to see the changes as I bring my takeoff over. I haven’t done either of these personally, but I remember others mentioning them:
1. Slip sheeting the new page in – should maintain all markups
2. Exporting markups and then importing them to the updated document
Perhaps these would be options for your client?
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Have you considered having everyone go through the intro course so that they can start to learn what they don’t know that they don’t know about?
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Still out their @Jeff.Collins ?
Bluebeam must have been reading this discussion @Jeff.Collins
At #UNBOUND25 last week they announce a “stitching tool” that I thought they said is included in Revu 21.7, but I can’t seem to find it yet. Perhaps it is still in the Beta test phase.
Anyway, it is similar to @Vince ‘s manual process, but maintains the layers and full PDF functionality (line weight dimming for example). I’m very excited to see how I can work this new feature into my workflows.
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

In addition to my tool sets being “offline” I was also having issues with launching Dynamic Fill. I reached out to Revu support about this and while they could see the issue in my error logs, they could not identify what was causing the issue. To correct the issue the suggest a complete reinstallation and provided a link to their “cleaner tool” to prepare for the reinstallation.
So in the spirt of the season I performed a bit of a exorcism on my desktop computer to completely remove Revu using the cleaner too. This was followed by a fresh install of Revu 21.6.1. (I’m still not convinced that all the bugs are out of 21.7).
This seams to have fixed both the issue with Dynamic Fill and my tool sets being offline! 😎
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Had a great time in DC at #Unbound25 with my friends from #Uchapter2
Thank you all for making the trip, preparing your presentations and for welcoming into the gang!.
Looking forward to #Unbound27! 😎
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Agreed. Perhaps, if Claude can be prompted to create the takeoff markup accurately, the solution is as simple as having Claude re-do that part of the takeoff.
Until then it’s probably up to Tom, Dick or Harry to re-do that portion of the takeoff. 🙂
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

I wonder if this is a good use case for Claude????
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

At this point 140 pages is outside of my experience range @troy-degroot – for takeoffs at least.
Curious to see what you are able to come up with on this one! Please keep us posted.🙂
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

I’d like to see that presentation @troy-degroot
I like to think that I’m using a decent chunk of the other 85%, but I know there is more out there that I can learn. 🙂
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

As it stands now @Doug McLean does the Magic Wand capture everything (formatting, custom column data, etc.) on the “copied” tool? I’m cautiously optimistic about this one… 🙂
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

I agree 100% @Doug McLean
Some of my workflow was developed before I had basic understandings of Power Query so having the required columns, in the right order saved steps in my manual data washing process. Not knowing what I didn’t know about Revu and Power Query I built very basic tools. While I know more now, I still aim to keep things relatively simple so that they are easy for others to understand… 😎
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David Cutler
MemberOctober 16, 2025 at 12:25 pm in reply to: Best “unintended” custom tool feature?Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
One of the advantages of using this “ignored” column is that you don’t have to clear the information out of it when creating your upload file since the software is going to ignore it anyway… 😀
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Thank you for the clarification @Doug McLean
I guess I was too excited about the possibilities to be listening carefully… 🙃
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Flattening after using this tool is a great “best practice” since when you move the content it becomes an image that could be deleted accidentally. Thank you for the tip!
🙂
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Points: 30,991Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II

Thank you for the suggestion @lizlarsen . I’ll have to check into this.
My next update is 21.7 – which I don’t want to touch with a 10 ft pole at this point based on what I hearing…