[David Cutler]

Good question @chriscook

Usually, if I want something to be a specific length I will create a “polyline sketch to scale” markup set at the length I’m hunting for. Then, with my regular markup tool I will click on either end of the reference line to establish the desired length. You can then deleted the reference line – or re-use it.

Taking this a step further if I need a series of offsets – say a 5 ft offset from a building pad I will create a series of 5 ft squares using the “rectangle sketch to scale” around the structure and then run my measurements around the corresponding offset corners. This also works well with “ellipse sketch to scale” markups.

I tried creating custom tools using “polyline sketch to scale” but haven’t had much luck them – though I can’t remember what the specific issues were. Might have to try that again…. 🙂

[David Cutler]

And it continues to get better!

Just checked the updated set that I posted to our file share site and the same 4 layers appear to be turned off! Thinking that perhaps I need to create a new PDF file from my source PDF to see if that “sets” all the layers as on…

Beyond frustrating as I expect some of my trade partners don’t know how to work with layers to ensure that they are turned on…

[David Cutler]

Okay, I think I figured the issue out!

Appears that the “default” layer display was set to have these 4 layers turned off. So I changed the setting to “display all” and then saved the “default” to include all layers being turned on.

That was frustrating, but at least now I understand what the problem was! 🙃

[David Cutler]

The plot thickens!

I really can’t explain this one. Later in the day after turning the layers on and continuing my markups, saving as I go, I used “Ctrl+Z” to undo a markup. Immediately after I noticed that the same 4 layers had turned off!

Maybe I need to update to Revu 21.6.1 as I’m still running 21.5….

[David Cutler]

Morning update. My guy was able to provide an .IFC file. Revu seems to be choking on it though… Following the steps to create a new 3D PDF and all I’m getting is the spinning “I’m thinking” wheel in the 3D Model Tree. No image on the screen.

I can save the file and re-open it, still the same spinning wheel in the 3D Model Tree.

The .IFC file is 8,228 KB. Is this too large? My guy is asking if perhaps I only need certain layers as opposed to the full model.

Any thoughts?

[David Cutler]

Yes, they both had the layers from the designer – which I appreciate and utilize!

[David Cutler]

Our IT consultant worked the issue out. Had to “manually map the Z:\drive to the server” or something along those lines. 🙂

[David Cutler]

This workflow for me came directly from a “I wonder if I could…” moment after learning about scaled toolboxes. As a number of us like to say “I didn’t know what I didn’t know” on scaled toolboxes…

[David Cutler]

Worked my way through this process this morning @troy-degroot and it went very well. I took it a step further and copied everything out of the “\21” folder so it brought over all of my tool sets too. Made the process of setting up Revu on my new computer basically seamless!

The only issue I seem to have is that while the pinned file/recent files list is present, the computer can’t seem to “find” the files – even though the path appears to be correct to the naked eye. Guessing this is something related to how our IT consultant has things setup. I need to reach out to him and see if he has any suggestions… Stay tuned!

[David Cutler]

That’s frustrating @Vince

Have you heard about my hack for combining information from sheets with different scales?

It adds a couple of steps, but it saves you from having to manually stretch the image.

The process is pretty simple:

1. Set the scale of the page that you are copying from and the page that you are pasting to

2. Create a scaled toolbox and establish the scale to match the source sheet

3. Snip the image that you need using Revu’s “G” or “Shift-G” snipping tools

4. Paste the image onto the source sheet then right click on the image and save the image as a tool to your scaled toolbox that matches the source sheet scale. Deleted the image from the sheet.

5. Select the image from your scaled toolbox and paste it where needed. Revu will automatically scale the image to match the sheet that you are applying the markup to – no stretching required!

This also works great for overlaying proposed linework over existing linework when the sheets are at different scales.

Bonus hack – I have scaled toolboxes pre-established for the common scales that I work with – 1 Inch = 10 Foot, 1 Inch = 20 Foot, etc along with a “Temporary Scale” that I adjust as needed for the odd cases.

[David Cutler]

I saw that this morning @Doug McLean ! Very slick.

Did you notice at the end of the clip that his 48 3/8″ measurement had changed to 17 11/16″?

I also wonder about how well it “transfers” to Revu – certainly appeared that he was typing the value into Revu rather than it automatically populating – but I could be wrong.

Maybe there will be a product rep at Unbound… 🙂

[David Cutler]

Great writeup @troy-degroot – and perfect timing as I’m migrating to a new laptop!

Thank you for remembering this topic and making the time to bring it back to the top of the page.

[David Cutler]

@isaac-harned I’d be surprised if @Doug McLean didn’t start his prompt with “Create a query…”

I had some trust issues with Power Query when I started using it. I haven’t tried any of these AI systems yet as I don’t know that I trust them. Perhaps more importantly I don’t trust myself to create the prompt correctly to get the desired output. 🙃

[David Cutler]

Thank you @troy-degroot !

The crazy thing I found here was that the “default” layer display setting excluded the 4 layers. I’m guessing that someone had those layers turned off for some reason and then accidently saved the “default” layer setting. I can’t think of a reason why, in this case, they would have excluded them. 😀

[David Cutler]

I was pleased that he was able to create the .IFC file as previously he didn’t think that he could. That’s an important first step. I’ll keep you posted. 😎