[David Cutler]

Something I don’t think I had noticed until the other day is the ability to control the width of the highlighter “line” by changing the font size. So you can use the tool as a broad brush, or as a precision instrument of communication.

[David Cutler]

Prayers from Pennsylvania, USA to you and Tammy @Doug McLean 🙏

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @mattzat

That’s a good question – I have never seen anyone add a second leader to a cloud+ markup. If it is possible I expect someone will be long shortly who knows how. Until then you could probably use a poly line that matches the line weight and color and then group the cloud+ and the added poly line. It’s a bit clunky, but would get the job done.

If it turns out it isn’t available it may be worth making a post to BlueBeam’s “Product Suggestion site:

https://suggestions.bluebeam.com/ideas/new

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[David Cutler]

Welcome to UChapter2 @sudsy !

You are definitely in the right place to explore the capabilities of Revu.

My primary use of Revu is for civil construction takeoff – which can be very similar to the image you displayed. What are you using to develop these documents currently?

I’d suggest making some time to watch some of the videos at https://uchapter2.com/bluebeam-training-videos/ Our host, @troy-degroot , has some great resources available there.

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[David Cutler]

Merry Christmas @Doug McLean !

[David Cutler]

Sooo many thoughts on this @Doug McLean …

My manager doesn’t want anything to do with the tools that I’ve built/learning about my workflow with exporting markups/washing in Excel/Importing to B2W.

Very frustrating as I’m sure he could be more efficient with some sharper tools…

Let’s not forget those who cling to that “other” PDF software….

[David Cutler]

I haven’t ever performed a steel takeoff , but your approach sounds pretty reasonable to me @ChrisRiley

What type of markup tool are you using?

At this point if you only have to click to apply the tool and add two data points it seems you have a pretty efficient system.

[David Cutler]

Ended up deleting the “frozen” markup and starting over on that piece of the takeoff. This time I broke the parking lot into smaller sections so that if I had a similar issue I wouldn’t have to start completely over again…🙂

[David Cutler]

Okay, that wasn’t too bad….

I was able to export my markups from my original file and then import them into a “clean” file that I had available.

All is well now. 🙂

[David Cutler]

I can certainly mention the idea to her @troy-degroot !

[David Cutler]

Once you apply a highlight you can change the “Line Width” in the properties bar. This also shows a “line weight” in my top menu bar. The default highlight tool has a setting of “12”

If you have a setting that you like you can right click and set the current properties to default. Another option would be to establish an toolchest of highlighters of various widths and colors to have them available at a click of your mouse.

[David Cutler]

I guess that is part of the danger of being the person with the best set of tools in the shop – everyone looks to you to get it done rather than learning to do it themselves – even if you have a sign saying “feel free to borrow any tools” on your toolbox. 🙂

Implementation push may need to come from higher up the ladder. I wonder if when someone like @troy-degroot comes in they get better buy-in from the organization because upper management has brought someone in from outside which implies “this is important to me”.

Maybe you need to get the company to bring in @troy-degroot to implement what you have developed @Doug McLean 🤣

[David Cutler]

SQUIREL!!!!!

[David Cutler]

Good to know @isaac-harned ! Thank you for trying this independently.

At this point our workflow isn’t very “high tech” – basically we manage our PDFs the same way we would handle a paper set of drawings. The “original” gets saved to a “plans” folder in our project directory. A copy gets saved into our “takeoff” folder. This is the file that we make our takeoff markups on. Even if we managed to mess up both of these sets we typically have access to the clients cloud storage site to obtain a clean copy. We also have a set on an cloud based file access system for our trade partners. So 99.9% of the time I have access to a “clean” copy.

I know that we could be more sophisticated with our system using “Sets” or “Studio Sessions”, but typically one of us completes the entire takeoff for a proposal so setting these type of systems up would be added work.

At some point I expect that we will transition to digital plans in the field which will require updating our processes – but this may be years in the future…

[David Cutler]

At some point I’ll have to go back an try to replicate what I did – with a sandbox copy of my file – and then see if there is a way to undo it…