[David Cutler]

As a follow up I use a “Cover Sheet” on my takeoff files that brings in “Standard” items that we include in every estimate. I copy this cover sheet into my takeoff set when I get started. This sheet also includes my standard layers.

So, what’s interesting is that the markups on the cover sheet are fine – the new columns are right where they need to be and the “Phase” data stayed in the “Phase” column. The newly applied markup has the “Phase” value in the “Unit Price” column… 😜

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[David Cutler]

I probably should have explored this further before posting rather than this play-by-play approach…

If I start with a new blank PDF everything seems to be in the right places – so it appears that my tools are not corrupted… 🙂

[David Cutler]

Bag is packed and my UChapter2 T-Shirt is out ready for me to slip into it Wednesday morning at 0 dark 30. Looking to see what new Bluebeam Revu tricks I can learn.

If you are attending keep an eye out for me. 😎

[David Cutler]

One option might be to create a series of “RFI Cloud Tools” that have the number pre-populated so that when you selected “RFI 1” from your tool chest you’d have “RFI 1” in the text box, select “RFI 2” for the next one, etc. You could have tool chest with 100 tools – or groups of 10, whatever works best for your workflow. Once you use “RFI X” delete it from the tool chest so that RFI X+1 is at the top of the tool chest ready to be selected next.

This is probably more of an analog option than you’re looking for @corbin – but it could save some work in the future.

[David Cutler]

Used both the “tool chest search” and the “hide individual markup” features on a takeoff today. Both proved to be valuable timesavers in my workflow! 🙂

[David Cutler]

If you really want to blow someone’s mind save your snapshots to a scaled toolchest. You can then drop them as a markup from the tool chest onto drawings that have different scales. When you do this the images automatically match the scale that they are being pasted to.

[David Cutler]

There are also great free video lessons available at:

https://uchapter2.com/bluebeam-training-videos/

These are a great way to learn “what you didn’t know you didn’t know” about Revu. The fun then begins figuring out how to work the new tips & tricks into your workflows.

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[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @brent ! You are off to a great start by joining us here.

Be sure to check out the free class on getting started on the UC2 site:

https://uchapter2.com/courses/bluebeam-baseline-basics/

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[David Cutler]

I got frustrated and stopped messing with it last night. Most of my tools don’t “need” this to work as I can work with the standard “quantity” column. I could also build out a series of factor columns if I wanted to that would get everything into the right units. Just need to find the time to invest… 🙂

[David Cutler]

I can see having multiple columns with the same name happening very easily – especially if you are using different column layouts in different profiles…

[David Cutler]

Unfortunately I don’t have a good trick to automate this @corbin

A relatively painless way to create a series of tools would be to create a blank PDF that you use to create your tools on. Create your RFI 1 tool and apply it 10 times on the sheet and then edit the caption for your sequence. Next copy those 10 markups and paste them into another column and make those 11-20 and so on.

In your tool chests window create a “RFI” tool chest. Once you build out the number that you want to have available select them all, right click and save them to your RFI tool chest.

Realistically you could probably build out 100 tools in an hour or 2 and have them available to use over and over again.

You could up your game with some custom columns to collect various pieces of information related to the RFI that could later be exported to create a RFI log….

[David Cutler]

Sounds frustrating @Vince !

Luckily most of the time mine works as I expect it too…

[David Cutler]

Multiply is going to be right up there on my list of favorite features…. 🙂

[David Cutler]

Unfortunately I don’t think there is any budget for commission on free resources! 🤣

[David Cutler]

We basically have 2 teams with 1 person on each team. I try not to talk to myself too much so the “team reviews” are pretty quick with little opportunity to show new tool approaches… 🙂

I rely on my UChapter2 “team” for sharing of innovative ideas…