[David Cutler]

I haven’t made the update to 21.7 yet @revu-user – I tend to wait a couple of days to install the updates so that early adopters, like yourself, can find these issues… 🙂

I too have wondered why the count tools don’t show in the recent tools. Might have to ask the Developers at Unbound at the end of the month about that…

As a work around you could right click on a count tool that you are already using and select “resume count”. While this isn’t always convenient if the pervious markup is on a different page in your PDF it does get it done…

[David Cutler]

Thank you for sharing this @Doug McLean

While we don’t have a use for this in our day to day operations it’s always good to know what tools are out there!

Who knows, might even be a Bluebeam Jeopardy response some day… 🙂

[David Cutler]

Good question @chriscook

Usually, if I want something to be a specific length I will create a “polyline sketch to scale” markup set at the length I’m hunting for. Then, with my regular markup tool I will click on either end of the reference line to establish the desired length. You can then deleted the reference line – or re-use it.

Taking this a step further if I need a series of offsets – say a 5 ft offset from a building pad I will create a series of 5 ft squares using the “rectangle sketch to scale” around the structure and then run my measurements around the corresponding offset corners. This also works well with “ellipse sketch to scale” markups.

I tried creating custom tools using “polyline sketch to scale” but haven’t had much luck them – though I can’t remember what the specific issues were. Might have to try that again…. 🙂

[David Cutler]

I’ve done something similar in the past @revu-user using a “Working Set” tool chest for project specific tools.

One idea that might speed up the extra step of using the format painter would be to filter your markups list for a certain markup – say respread topsoil as one of my tools – and then select all of those markups and make the line thickness/fill color changes once for all of the selected markups. The format painter works well if you have a couple of markups to match, but there are more efficient ways if you are dealing with dozens or hundreds of markups. 🙂

Hopefully Bluebeam issues a 21.7.X update shortly and addresses you other issues….

[David Cutler]

Not at this time @Vince – just a good, old fashioned single file with 25 pages. 😎

[David Cutler]

Yes, they both had the layers from the designer – which I appreciate and utilize!

[David Cutler]

Our IT consultant worked the issue out. Had to “manually map the Z:\drive to the server” or something along those lines. 🙂

[David Cutler]

This workflow for me came directly from a “I wonder if I could…” moment after learning about scaled toolboxes. As a number of us like to say “I didn’t know what I didn’t know” on scaled toolboxes…

[David Cutler]

Worked my way through this process this morning @troy-degroot and it went very well. I took it a step further and copied everything out of the “\21” folder so it brought over all of my tool sets too. Made the process of setting up Revu on my new computer basically seamless!

The only issue I seem to have is that while the pinned file/recent files list is present, the computer can’t seem to “find” the files – even though the path appears to be correct to the naked eye. Guessing this is something related to how our IT consultant has things setup. I need to reach out to him and see if he has any suggestions… Stay tuned!

[David Cutler]

That’s frustrating @Vince

Have you heard about my hack for combining information from sheets with different scales?

It adds a couple of steps, but it saves you from having to manually stretch the image.

The process is pretty simple:

1. Set the scale of the page that you are copying from and the page that you are pasting to

2. Create a scaled toolbox and establish the scale to match the source sheet

3. Snip the image that you need using Revu’s “G” or “Shift-G” snipping tools

4. Paste the image onto the source sheet then right click on the image and save the image as a tool to your scaled toolbox that matches the source sheet scale. Deleted the image from the sheet.

5. Select the image from your scaled toolbox and paste it where needed. Revu will automatically scale the image to match the sheet that you are applying the markup to – no stretching required!

This also works great for overlaying proposed linework over existing linework when the sheets are at different scales.

Bonus hack – I have scaled toolboxes pre-established for the common scales that I work with – 1 Inch = 10 Foot, 1 Inch = 20 Foot, etc along with a “Temporary Scale” that I adjust as needed for the odd cases.

[David Cutler]

I saw that this morning @Doug McLean ! Very slick.

Did you notice at the end of the clip that his 48 3/8″ measurement had changed to 17 11/16″?

I also wonder about how well it “transfers” to Revu – certainly appeared that he was typing the value into Revu rather than it automatically populating – but I could be wrong.

Maybe there will be a product rep at Unbound… 🙂

[David Cutler]

Great writeup @troy-degroot – and perfect timing as I’m migrating to a new laptop!

Thank you for remembering this topic and making the time to bring it back to the top of the page.

[David Cutler]

@isaac-harned I’d be surprised if @Doug McLean didn’t start his prompt with “Create a query…”

I had some trust issues with Power Query when I started using it. I haven’t tried any of these AI systems yet as I don’t know that I trust them. Perhaps more importantly I don’t trust myself to create the prompt correctly to get the desired output. 🙃

[David Cutler]

Thank you @troy-degroot !

The crazy thing I found here was that the “default” layer display setting excluded the 4 layers. I’m guessing that someone had those layers turned off for some reason and then accidently saved the “default” layer setting. I can’t think of a reason why, in this case, they would have excluded them. 😀

[David Cutler]

Okay, I think I figured the issue out!

Appears that the “default” layer display was set to have these 4 layers turned off. So I changed the setting to “display all” and then saved the “default” to include all layers being turned on.

That was frustrating, but at least now I understand what the problem was! 🙃