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  • David Cutler

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    February 27, 2024 at 1:27 pm in reply to: PDF “best practices” on Morning Coffee Revu
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    Thank you everyone who joined us on Morning Coffee Revu today! Great to see a number of friends on the chat. 😎

  • David Cutler

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    January 29, 2024 at 7:03 am in reply to: Highlighter Tool
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    Something I don’t think I had noticed until the other day is the ability to control the width of the highlighter “line” by changing the font size. So you can use the tool as a broad brush, or as a precision instrument of communication.

  • David Cutler

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    January 12, 2024 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Personal Post
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    Prayers from Pennsylvania, USA to you and Tammy @Doug McLean 🙏

  • David Cutler

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    January 12, 2024 at 3:26 pm in reply to: Cloud+ Add Leader
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    Welcome to the Brainery @mattzat

    That’s a good question – I have never seen anyone add a second leader to a cloud+ markup. If it is possible I expect someone will be long shortly who knows how. Until then you could probably use a poly line that matches the line weight and color and then group the cloud+ and the added poly line. It’s a bit clunky, but would get the job done.

    If it turns out it isn’t available it may be worth making a post to BlueBeam’s “Product Suggestion site:

    https://suggestions.bluebeam.com/ideas/new

  • David Cutler

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    January 8, 2024 at 9:09 pm in reply to: BB toolsets and GIS PDF overlay
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    Welcome to UChapter2 @sudsy !

    You are definitely in the right place to explore the capabilities of Revu.

    My primary use of Revu is for civil construction takeoff – which can be very similar to the image you displayed. What are you using to develop these documents currently?

    I’d suggest making some time to watch some of the videos at https://uchapter2.com/bluebeam-training-videos/ Our host, @troy-degroot , has some great resources available there.


  • David Cutler

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    February 27, 2024 at 2:35 pm in reply to: PDF “best practices” on Morning Coffee Revu
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    Glad to hear that you feel that way about this morning @Doug McLean 😎.

    As I’ve mentioned to a few folks before as my skills have increased it has been more difficult to find “free” content that I can learn something new from. Hopefully some took something away from the discussion this morning that will provide a return on the time that they spent with us.

  • David Cutler

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    February 26, 2024 at 6:27 pm in reply to: PDF “best practices” on Morning Coffee Revu
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    I’m going to do my best to not drop any “A bombs”. 😎

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    Welcome to the Brainery @rick-nimtz !

    In a presentation last week I saw where a team used a Zoom Whiteboard to collaborate on. They would post the PDF on the whiteboard (not exactly sure how you do this) and then mark it up – I believe with a stylist of some sort. Once they were in agreement they would edit the source document. Might be worth considering.

  • David Cutler

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    February 16, 2024 at 2:16 pm in reply to: 3D PDFs from software other than Revit
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    I had a demo license for Trimble Business Center at one point a couple of years ago. I used the software to put together a quantity takeoff for one project – with the assistance of the sales rep. It is a very powerful program, but I couldn’t get past the price point – especially since we already have Revu licenses and I have soooo much time invested in my custom Revu tools…

  • David Cutler

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    February 14, 2024 at 8:46 am in reply to: 3D PDFs from software other than Revit
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    What is the program that you were getting trained on @Vince ? Is this an additional service that you are going to start offering to your customers?

  • David Cutler

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    February 14, 2024 at 8:45 am in reply to: 3D PDFs from software other than Revit
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    Thank you for the information @Doug McLean 🙂

    Unfortunately a quick web search doesn’t indicate that the software can export a U3D or IFC file. Double unfortunately we outsource this analysis so I don’t have the software available to play with… Probably is a way to take it out of AGTEK, into another software that has the capability to generate the U3D or IFC format…

  • David Cutler

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    February 8, 2024 at 2:21 pm in reply to: Personal Post
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    Glad to hear that Tammy has made it over those initial hurdles @Doug McLean

    Absolutely no fun for anyone involved. Continued prayers from south of the border. If you ever need someone to talk with please reach out. 🙂

  • David Cutler

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    February 1, 2024 at 8:25 am in reply to: Where should a new user start?
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    We’ve been together for 27 years. Can be interesting having 2 Engineer’s in the family – especially where most of my career I’ve been on the construction side where she is on the design side. I hope that my “comments” about other people’s designs help her to keep constructability in mind in her designs… 🤣

    I’m thrilled that they are moving to Revu. I haven’t used A***** for years so I’m not fluid with the interface. When she (or others) try to show me drawings on that other product I have a tough time using it…

  • David Cutler

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    January 31, 2024 at 1:00 pm in reply to: Where should a new user start?
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    I can certainly mention the idea to her @troy-degroot !

  • David Cutler

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    January 30, 2024 at 10:56 am in reply to: Highlighter Tool
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    Once you apply a highlight you can change the “Line Width” in the properties bar. This also shows a “line weight” in my top menu bar. The default highlight tool has a setting of “12”

    If you have a setting that you like you can right click and set the current properties to default. Another option would be to establish an toolchest of highlighters of various widths and colors to have them available at a click of your mouse.

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