[David Cutler]

This sounds like a good opportunity to teach a customer how to use markup export/Excel tools. Maybe not the full nitrous kit, yet….🙂

[David Cutler]

I’ve run into something similar when taking off curb @Nic_Bitting – usually when I try to save adding multiple points on an island. Basically if I select only the tangent points (so that I have a straight line across the end of the island) Revu won’t let me convert that straight line to an arc. Typically if I place 3 points – start, middle and end points – Revu will allow me to make two arcs.

Not a fix, but as a potential work around have you tried adding an additional point close to where you need the arc and then deleting your original point?

As a side note your sketch is very well done. How do you get your dimensions lines to offset off the curves? I don’t think that I’ve seen that before.

[David Cutler]

Don’t give up too quickly @mackus there may be other ways to get this done!

Let’s take a few steps back and see what we can figure out.

To help us better help you please respond to the following:

1. What is your desired end product?

2. Are you looking to develop a marked up drawing?

3. Are you looking to develop a list of equipment/materials?

4. How will use the data that you collect?

5. What is your current process?

What I’m thinking is that you may be able to develop Groups of tools to apply as 1 markup. You may then be able to assign your “unique name” using spaces – or maybe even the page name.

To truly make suggestions we need to know what your end goal is, so that we can “start with the end in mind.

[David Cutler]

WOW!

That single family kitchen that you have on your list for next week is going to be pretty boring after this!

😎

[David Cutler]

Sounds like something out of Karate Kid. Hours of “wax on, wax off” and “paint the fence” gets you ready for the “big match”. 😎

Looking forward to seeing how you have pushed the boundaries of what people think can be done with Revu and Power Query on this one @Doug McLean !

[David Cutler]

Thank you for making arrangements for Tadeh to present to the group @troy-degroot

I for one confirmed that I had no idea what I didn’t know about the IOT. 🙂

[David Cutler]

Not that I recall seeing @isaac-harned

I’d expect that the toolbar would get crowded if you displayed all the details?

Seems as if I’ve “undocked” a portion of the toolbar so it could stand alone before, but I don’t recall being able to display details in this configuration. Doing this must not have been too helpful though as I haven’t done this in a long time. 😎

[David Cutler]

I tuned in also Doug. I didn’t pick up on anything mind blowing either, though I don’t know that we are part of their “target audience”.

From what I recall the majority of attendees that answered the warm up survey indicated that they used Revu to perform takeoffs, once you started getting into the “more advanced” features the percentages dropped off significantly. (I took a screen shot of the opening poll results that I will go back to verify this). For those folks what was presented probably blew them away – especially the Power BI. They did show something about outputting a markup list from multiple files at the same time that I need to investigate though…

Since I walk in the shadows of the super users here on the UChapter2 Brainery I’m starting to find it harder and harder to find “new” content to consume. Today was a prime example.🙂

[David Cutler]

I like the idea of one linear measurement being used to capture all of the materials. Could you use Spaces to identify the individual rooms and some sort of lookup extracted from the schedule tables to determine what detail should be followed for each space?

Could you give us a snip of a plan view so that we have a better idea of the “big picture”?

[David Cutler]

Shouldn’t the information in the text boxes be available in a CSV markup export that could be managed with a Power Query?

[David Cutler]

I couldn’t resist trying this. It works! Well, at least mostly.

What I found is that I had to expand the group in the markups list and then select the measurement that I wanted to modify in order to access the control points. So, it’s a few steps to get the sequence and area measurement to work together, but it can be done.

I did try adding a separate perimeter measurement to the group with slightly less satisfactory results. The length is associated with the sequence tag, but the area and perimeter need to be adjusted separately. Lots of steps…

Depending upon how you need to use the data it may be possible to use a custom column set to output the perimeter of the area measurement.

[David Cutler]

That might work @Vince – need to select the text box last so that it stays editable (I think).

Might need to set the tool as a standard length/width and then drag the control points to resize rather than starting with a new area measurement though. (I haven’t tried this yet, just throwing idea out) 😎

[David Cutler]

I go hot & cold on dynamic fill.

For parking lots I’ve gone as far as measuring the curb with my curb markup tool, flattening those markups temporarily and then using dynamic fill to measure the roadway area. Sometimes this doesn’t work cleanly and I end up with either bleed or random control points in my area markups.

Usually I get frustrated and just measure the roadway areas by selecting points along the curbline again… 🤪

[David Cutler]

That’s part of fun @Doug McLean – learning/figuring it out now and then applying it right out of the gate in the future. 😎

[David Cutler]

If you used a single linear measurement of the room perimeter would you need to deduct for doors, or is that just considered waste on the wainscoting?

You could also add crown for over the doors based on a door count, but that might cause you to show needing multiple short lengths were your field crews would rather have single long pieces…

That brings another question – for figuring waste do you need the length of each wall individually, or can you work with one measurement for each space? Getting way into the weeds here!