[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]

Tried to edit the markup on my laptop. No luck.

Updated my Revu to 20.3.15. No change…

[David Cutler]

Glad to hear that they were able to address the issue so quickly @Doug McLean !

[David Cutler]

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.

[David Cutler]

Must be a glitch in the Matrix….

[David Cutler]

Not using any spaces on this one @Doug McLean

Another thing that is odd is that I can add new control points to the markup, but I cannot delete or move existing or added control points. Another tidbit is that I can add cutout areas, but cannot adjust them either…

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the suggestion @isaac-harned – it’s probably easier to just re-do the markup – only about 30 mouse clicks…

[David Cutler]

That “Dynamic Phil” guy can be a bit fickle @troy-degroot 😎

@dhwalkellc I noticed this issue a while back and haven’t used it much since. While I haven’t tried it with an ellipse I have experimented with a 10 ft x 10 ft square with various line widths. Each provides a different result – not the 100 sf that you would expect.

When performing takeoff you need to be careful about the line weight of the source document as dynamic fill will always measure to the edge of the line, not the center.

[David Cutler]

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.

[David Cutler]

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? 🤣

[David Cutler]

@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!

[David Cutler]

Details, details @Doug McLean … 🤣

[David Cutler]

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…

[David Cutler]

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…