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  • David Cutler

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    August 25, 2023 at 6:31 am in reply to: Spaces for Individual Rooms
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    I like the use of the offset lines @dhwalkellc !

    Had a couple of questions after re-reading your post:

    – Do you start by making your area measurements first, then add the spaces?

    – Are you capturing all of you takeoff (ceiling/floor/crown/etc) with one area tool and custom columns?

    – How do you use the quantities after you complete your takeoff?

    I’ve toyed around with offset lines a bit, but not enough to be productive with them, yet. Probably need to go back and watch @vince ‘s video again….😎

  • David Cutler

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    August 13, 2023 at 12:34 pm in reply to: New blog post by me… My top 5 Pet peeves
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    Mine would have to be people that have access to Revu still using that a “A*****” program when they are trying to show me something on PDF file. 🙂

  • David Cutler

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    August 10, 2023 at 6:48 am in reply to: Brickwork and Scaffolding Workflow
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    Thank you for sharing this @vince !

    If you are faster with a hard copy and highlighters you need to provide a video of you in production mode!

    You hit the nail on the head when you said that the additional data that you collect outweighs the additional time that you spend in the process. Don’t forget that you are also saving the time that I takes to plot the drawings, file them when you’re done with your takeoff, find them again when you need to look something up, etc.

    I want to go back and watch the video again before I make any suggestions, but what you’ve put together so far is brilliant!

  • David Cutler

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    August 8, 2023 at 8:00 pm in reply to: 1900 Members!
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    Welcome member #1900! What questions can we answer for you?

  • David Cutler

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    August 4, 2023 at 5:29 am in reply to: Revu 21 Glitches
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    Thank you for the heads up @vince 😎

  • David Cutler

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    August 3, 2023 at 9:56 am in reply to: Markup List Autofocus
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    Interesting question @nic_bitting

    A couple of ideas:

    – Select the markup tool from “Recent Tools” Tool Chest rather than from the markups list

    – If you select the markup and it jumps to the previous page use the “Previous View” button to take you back to the page that you want to continue your takeoff on. You can also us the “Alt + Left arrow” keyboard shortcut to jump back to the previous view

    – From time to time I’ve also established a “Working Set” tool chest were I copy tools that I’m going to be using extensively to so that I don’t have to scroll through the same larger tool chest repeatedly. Kinda like having a pouch of tools that you take out of your main tool box in the basement to have handy when you are working on the second floor bathroom 😎

  • David Cutler

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    August 27, 2023 at 10:01 am in reply to: Spaces for Individual Rooms
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    Both this, and your original suggestion would definitely be handy @isaac !

  • David Cutler

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    August 25, 2023 at 9:21 pm in reply to: Spaces for Individual Rooms
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    Are you looking for something more powerful than the current format painter @isaac ?

  • David Cutler

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    August 25, 2023 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Spaces for Individual Rooms
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    I wonder if they would setup a “make space from measurement” option….

  • David Cutler

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    August 23, 2023 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Mid-Point Slide
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    That is pretty slick Isaac! Nice video clip with the on screen keyboard too.

  • David Cutler

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    August 13, 2023 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Brickwork and Scaffolding Workflow
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    Second idea – setup reusable cutouts for openings. I’m pretty sure you introduced me to this method @vince

    Basic idea here would be to establish a markup that has a series of standard sized cutouts already made. You should be able to apply wall of standards group of cutouts onto your takeoff sheet and then drag the appropriate sized cutout from the wall of standards onto your specific takeoff. The idea here is to eliminate the need to continuously draw new “sketch to scale” markups and then have to trace them to make cutouts.

  • David Cutler

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    August 13, 2023 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Brickwork and Scaffolding Workflow
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    Okay, first idea, use standard door tools (already drawn to scale) for your interior openings. Place them on your interior wall markups, bring the wall markup to the front and then use the cutout tool to make the openings snapping to the door markup.

    Disclaimer – I’m thinking out loud here and haven’t tried this so it may not work with the sized markup behind the wall markup. 😎

  • David Cutler

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    August 5, 2023 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Who’s using Revu to facilitate Municipal Plan Reviews?
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    I think that you would find that most of us use less than 30% of the features of the software @aekrogh. 😎 In part I’m sure that this is due to users simply not knowing the capabilities of the program. That is one of the great benefits of this on-line forum that @troy_degroot has provided for us – we get to see how others use the various features that we don’t use already.

  • David Cutler

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    August 2, 2023 at 9:41 pm in reply to: Who’s using Revu to facilitate Municipal Plan Reviews?
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    Sounds as if your City really has the process dialed in @aekrogh !

    Is this something that the City put in place and required the other groups to use, or was it developed with input from the various “interested parties”? What types of challenges did you face with the implementation?

  • David Cutler

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    August 2, 2023 at 1:32 pm in reply to: New Topics in Civil Design?
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    Looking forward to seeing what you put together @vince.

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