David Cutler
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

Welcome to the Brainery @jjmurphy
Something to consider when “looking” for pre-built tools is how you will use them in your workflows. Our custom tools probably wouldn’t be useful for you as they are tied to the item database in our estimating software. Further, we have a Power Query “data wash” step that prepares the markup data for uploading into our estimating software.
So, my suggestion would be to start with the end in mind and develop custom tools that work in your workflow. Start with the first piece of your takeoff – say 18″ Compost Filter Sock, or something similar, and then build from there.
Hope this helps. 😎
Dave
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

I’ve had this happen a couple of times over the last month or so – nothing this week though.
What version of Revu are you running @bb-user ? I’m still hanging back in Revu 21.6.
I haven’t kept track of what I’ve been doing when it shuts down @troy-degroot – or which files. Basically too frustrated when it shuts down to take notice!
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

So I had my <s style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Guinea Pig</s> Intern install 21.9 on his laptop (backup machine) and the line weight of the ghost line issue appears to have been resolved, but he has noticed what appears to be another bug. For some reason his curser seems to jump out of the search window on the tool chest search. Same thing happens on his desktop machine, which is running 21.8.
Has anyone come across that issue?
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

A few additional notes:
He is running Revu 21.8.
I am running Revu 21.6.
The issue is present when we open the file on either machine.
Other files are displaying linework without issues.
When we open a copy of the original file (without markups) all of the linework is visible
Fortunately, none of his takeoff work appears to have been lost, and we should be able to migrate the markups to a clean copy of the file, but I’d really like to understand what is causing this…
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

He obliviously doesn’t spend any time on #UChapter2.com 😎
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David Cutler
MemberMay 12, 2026 at 11:21 am in reply to: “Offset as a” tool in Max – is it as good as it appears?Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII
Your videos are a great introduction to the functionality @Vince !
For those who haven’t seen them yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIemTPpXWcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8AkXr3rUQ
One question Vince – In the Part 2 video at about the 2:00 mark does the “Ctrl” key launch the “magic wand” functionality? What you are doing here – reusing the existing geometry as Luke described it, is exactly what will get me to upgrade to Max…
Thank you for the videos as always!
Dave
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David Cutler
MemberMay 7, 2026 at 6:45 am in reply to: “Offset as a” tool in Max – is it as good as it appears?Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII
Very cool @Vince !
Something I’m curious to see is how the “magic wand” works with custom columns and such. Hopefully it is more powerful than the current format painter…
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David Cutler
MemberMay 6, 2026 at 7:02 am in reply to: “Offset as a” tool in Max – is it as good as it appears?Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII
Maybe @troy-degroot that will be a future upgrade. Could work similarly to the way you can assign your custom markup tool with dynamic fill.
Until then I think @Vince has the “working” solution with the “magic wand”. Still potentially a 2 or 3 click process, but if you are saving dozens of clicks on a markup by re-using the geometry you will still be more efficient…
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David Cutler
MemberMay 5, 2026 at 6:49 am in reply to: “Offset as a” tool in Max – is it as good as it appears?Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII
Thank you for the feedback @Vince ! Looking forward to seeing how this impacts our workflows. 😎
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Might have to carve out a few minutes for that MCR… 🍿😎
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@Vince do you get many “aren’t you that guy in the video?” questions???? 😎
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

Great questions on Legends @maryann-campos !
Removing a legend is pretty straight forward – it’s similar to your other markup. Simply select the legend and tap the delete key. 😎
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

Thank you for the suggestion @Vince
Tried toggling the Disable Line Weights on and off – no change
Tried adjusting the dimming – no change
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Points: 33,195Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII

Learned something here @troy-degroot ! I hadn’t really thought of it before, but just because the scale of the drawing is Metric, the tool can measure in Imperial. That’s pretty slick.
For @bb-user if you have already applied markups using tools that measure in Metric units, but you are looking for Imperial values you could select all of your markups at once and change the units that each type of measurement is displayed in once, for all of the measurements.
Hope this helps. 😎