[David Cutler]

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?

[David Cutler]

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?

[David Cutler]

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.

[David Cutler]

Great ideas @troy-degroot , thank you for the suggestions.

I’m so comfortable using my current custom tools/columns that I forget that I could simply add a few more, or create a different profile for this type of work. Thank you for the reminder! 🙂

[David Cutler]

That’s a good approach for a conceptual estimate @Vince and I probably should have gone that way. I ended up using Sketch to Scale and Multiply Markups to get some general layout. Went to good old Excel in the in end to extend out my bar count and length. Got it done and the client seems pleased at this point so that’s the important part! 🙂

[David Cutler]

I’m seeing a Claude prompt in a future @lizlarsen post that removes all the “extraneous Sheets bookmarks” and created nice neat bookmarks and page labels…

🙂

[David Cutler]

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. 🙂

[David Cutler]

I wonder if this is a good use case for Claude????

[David Cutler]

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.🙂

[David Cutler]

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. 🙂

[David Cutler]

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… 🙂

[David Cutler]

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… 😎

[David Cutler]

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… 😀

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the clarification @Doug McLean

I guess I was too excited about the possibilities to be listening carefully… 🙃

[David Cutler]

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!

🙂