[David Cutler]

Haven’t come across this yet @troy-degroot , but good to know!

😎

[David Cutler]

He obliviously doesn’t spend any time on #UChapter2.com 😎

[David Cutler]

That’s an interesting question @bb-user

Have you considered adding a couple of custom columns with a conversion factor and a formula to apply the factor to the metric measurement for conversion?

I’d expect @doug mclean might have some thoughts on this one as he works with both metric and imperial measurements on a regular basis.

[David Cutler]

Found another interesting feature of this repeatable cutout tool. To date I had only used this when copying a cutout inside of the same measurement. Turns out you can use the Cntrl-Drag feature to copy the cutout from one markup to another! Unfortunately it does have some limitations – doesn’t appear that you can drag the cutout to other pages or to other documents.

I could see @Vince using this to create a template of “standard” cutouts – say doors or windows by size and then copying the template into one of his “super sheets”, using them as needed and then deleting them back out. Might even have them as part of the super sheet template… 🙂

[David Cutler]

Thank you @troy-degroot !

Happy Holidays to all and best wishes for a healthy 2026! 🙂

[David Cutler]

Sorry, nothing to add here, but will be watching to learn…

🍿🙂

[David Cutler]

Had a plan set to use this repeatable cutout tool again today. Reminded me of this thread. Replying so that newer folks can be aware of this feature!

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @stigw

What type of arrows are you hunting for?

[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]

Learned something here @troy-degroot ! I hadn’t really thought of it before, but just because the scale of the drawing is Metric, the tool can measure in Imperial. That’s pretty slick.

For @bb-user if you have already applied markups using tools that measure in Metric units, but you are looking for Imperial values you could select all of your markups at once and change the units that each type of measurement is displayed in once, for all of the measurements.

Hope this helps. 😎

[David Cutler]

Had another update today – he had previously been on 21.7. The wide “as applying markup” highlight is very annoying. Thinking I’m staying in 26.1 for a while…

[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…. 🙂