[David Cutler]

What is the customer’s use case @troy-degroot ?

How do they use the lines in their workflows?

[David Cutler]

Very little is “impossible” in Bluebeam. Painful at times? Absolutely! 🙂

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[David Cutler]

I’m typically more of a copy/paste guy as I want to see the changes as I bring my takeoff over. I haven’t done either of these personally, but I remember others mentioning them:

1. Slip sheeting the new page in – should maintain all markups

2. Exporting markups and then importing them to the updated document

Perhaps these would be options for your client?

[David Cutler]

Have you considered having everyone go through the intro course so that they can start to learn what they don’t know that they don’t know about?

[David Cutler]

One of our guys updated to 21.8. So far so good. Appears that they fixed the issue with the area markup where the shading was covering the linework as you applied the points. The edge line that it is leaving as you select your boundary still appears to be a bit wide though…

[David Cutler]

The image is taken from Revu – so it is possible to create a line along the lines of what you are hunting for…

Unfortunately, it isn’t one line, it’s actually 4 copies of the same line, with different custom line styles stacked on top of each other…

The lines styles are configured as follows:

Dash, Space

Space, Dash

Dash, Space with offset

Space, Dash with offset

The “Dash first” lines share a common color, the “Space first” lines do the same.

It’s clumsy, slow and I haven’t tried it with a curve, but it “works”. 😎

[David Cutler]

Unfortunately @Jeff.Collins I may have overstated some of the functionality of the “Stitching” feature that is being added. Since my comment above I’ve heard that, at least in the Beta version, that the Stitching feature does not maintain the layers and such – basically it is just automating the process that has been discussed previously where snapshots of the PDF are joined together on the same sheet.

I’m hopeful that they layers and associated information will be added in future improvements…. 🙂

[David Cutler]

Great ideas @troy-degroot , thank you for the suggestions.

I’m so comfortable using my current custom tools/columns that I forget that I could simply add a few more, or create a different profile for this type of work. Thank you for the reminder! 🙂

[David Cutler]

That’s a good approach for a conceptual estimate @Vince and I probably should have gone that way. I ended up using Sketch to Scale and Multiply Markups to get some general layout. Went to good old Excel in the in end to extend out my bar count and length. Got it done and the client seems pleased at this point so that’s the important part! 🙂

[David Cutler]

I’m seeing a Claude prompt in a future @lizlarsen post that removes all the “extraneous Sheets bookmarks” and created nice neat bookmarks and page labels…

🙂

[David Cutler]

Agreed. Perhaps, if Claude can be prompted to create the takeoff markup accurately, the solution is as simple as having Claude re-do that part of the takeoff.

Until then it’s probably up to Tom, Dick or Harry to re-do that portion of the takeoff. 🙂

[David Cutler]

I wonder if this is a good use case for Claude????

[David Cutler]

At this point 140 pages is outside of my experience range @troy-degroot – for takeoffs at least.

Curious to see what you are able to come up with on this one! Please keep us posted.🙂

[David Cutler]

I’d like to see that presentation @troy-degroot

I like to think that I’m using a decent chunk of the other 85%, but I know there is more out there that I can learn. 🙂

[David Cutler]

As it stands now @Doug McLean does the Magic Wand capture everything (formatting, custom column data, etc.) on the “copied” tool? I’m cautiously optimistic about this one… 🙂