Member David Cutler
Member
Forum Replies Created
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Glad to hear that they were able to address the issue so quickly @Doug McLean !
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Great first post @brooke-shadburne !
@dsperg has you on the right track.
If you want to take it a step further try taking a snapshot of the range diagram from your equipment data. Paste this onto a PDF that has the scale set and stretch the snapshot until it is also to scale. Next add this to your toolbox with the scaling option set as David has suggested. Depending upon the original image you should now have a scaled version of the manufactures radius diagram for your use.
Extra bonus – Take a snapshot of the footprint of the crane and repeat the above procedure. This will allow you to see how the outriggers fit on site too.
Keep us up to date on how this works out for you.
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Welcome to the Brainery @fc-estimation
Sounds as if you have learned a good amount about Revu in your first 6 months! @vince and @doug mclean have built some amazing tools in Revu and workflows that use Power Query to process the information that they extract from their markups. That being said understand that they have been refining their tools and their workflows for years to get them to the level that they are at today.
My tools are not as advanced as their tools are, and I’m just taking baby steps into using Power Query. My tools get what I need done though and that is the important part!
We usually recommend people start with the end in mind – ask yourself “how am I going to use the data after I’m done capturing the information in Revu?” Some complete their entire estimates in Excel. Some transpose the information onto a piece of paper and re-key it into an estimating software (my boss for example). I export my markups as a .CSV, reduce the information in Excel (using a simple Power Query) and upload the “clean” data into our estimating software, B2W.
The key point is to find what works for you, rough it out and then refine it over time. What works for you today (Quantity Link) may not be what you use in the future.
From what I’ve found Quantity Link doesn’t provide the flexibility that I need with my data. I export my markups to a .CSV file an work with the data in Excel from there as others have suggested. If you haven’t already done so find a few video’s on how to use some of the simple data tools in Excel as a start and then learn about Power Query in time. Before you know it you will be teaching us what you have learned!
Also make some time to watch some of the videos that our host, @troy_degroot has posted. That’s what really got me started!
https://uchapter2.com/bluebeam-training-videos/
uchapter2.com
Bluebeam Training Videos - UChapter2
Bluebeam Training Videos Do more in Bluebeam with UChapter2Training Videos About Our Training Videos For easy access, we’ve pulled all our valuable Bluebeam videos from…
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
That’s an interesting question @jeromesteelfabusa-com – can’t say I’ve seen this discussed previously.
I’m not familiar with Fabsuite. You might see if you can configure Fabsuite to accept the data in feet decimal form. Perhaps it has the ability to take the data and display it in FT – IN?
Welcome to the Brainery BTW!
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Great questions @rebecca-yu !
Not sure how much information you are looking to display/what level of detail (individual markups vs summaries), but at a minimum you can include your custom columns in a Legend on each page.
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
So I guess asking for a PDF that includes layers with a naming structure that doesn’t require a PHD to translate is out of the question? 🤣
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
@Vince perhaps you could “coach” your clients (or their clients) to require consistent file naming from their designers. If part of their design agreement is that files are to named following an established naming convention and the client enforces this requirement I’d expect that the designers would shape up quickly after being required by the client to rename 500 files to meet the standards a few times… 🙂
“What is important to my boss is important to me”, Author Unknown – but a very smart person for sure!
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I remember you saying that before @Doug McLean, thank you for the reminder! At this point I figure starting from scratch each time is good practice on how to use PQ… 🤣 – and it’s faster than using subtotals as a bonus…
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I think I’d classify it as wading in @Doug McLean rather than diving. I’m getting comfortable setting up the queries, but I haven’t gotten deep enough in to figure out how re-use them…
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
That has to be way up there on the “creative” use list @Doug McLean !
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in Excel @vince – but I can’t say that I’ve gone looking for it either… 🤔
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Both this, and your original suggestion would definitely be handy @isaac !
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Are you looking for something more powerful than the current format painter @isaac ?
-
Points: 28,221Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I wonder if they would setup a “make space from measurement” option….