[David Cutler]

Curious to hear what people recommend @Vince

At this point I’m running with whatever our office manager picked off of Amazon, AKA nothing fancy.

I wonder if you picked a mouse with multiple buttons if you could set Revu so that some commands are activated by the “extra” buttons?

[David Cutler]

Great blog post @troy-degroot !

The “Paper Dolls” method can also be used for woodworking for laying out cut sheets for plywood parts.

[David Cutler]

Spot on @Doug McLean ! Others in my organization perform there takeoff with Revu and then write the results down on a pad of paper before entering them into our estimating software. The workflow I’ve developed allows me to export my takeoff to Excel, perform some data scrubbing, and then import the items and quantities into our estimating software. While it isn’t perfect my workflow is much more efficient.

Now I need to up my game and learn how to use Power Query in Excel as you have recommended to further increase my efficiency😎

[David Cutler]

Great question @dhwalkellc

I don’t user layer hierarchy yet, but I do use a cover sheet on my takeoffs that includes around 20 of my “standard” items (layout, mobilization, supervision, etc). If you use similar items that are in every bid you might consider adding these standard items to your layer sheet.

[David Cutler]

@Vince posted about hardware setups on LinkedIn and it reminded me about this thread. Has anyone made any updates to their setups recently?

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @joser

If I am understanding your question correctly you are asking that if you create a “standard” spreadsheet can you use it over and over again for new PDF files. While I don’t use quantity link myself, my understanding is that you should be able to save a copy of your Excel file and then update the links to reference your new project’s PDF.

I hope this answers your question.

Dave

[David Cutler]

Welcome @lizlarsen !

Nice to have you officially part of the Brainery.

Dave

[David Cutler]

Have you had any luck restoring this functionality @ChrisRiley ?

Dave

[David Cutler]

I’ve been holding off on installing the update @ChrisRiley after @troy-degroot ‘s post about issues with the 20.2.80 update. Now you’ve given me another reason to hold off! Thank you for the heads up.

Did you try hitting the “F1” key to bring up the help menu? That works in 20.2.70…

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the update @Vince and for the link to the previous version. I need to get one of my coworkers updated, but don’t want to take his machine to .85 if there is any risk of him having any problems….

[David Cutler]

I completely understand your frustration @dhwalkellc !

I am not a software designer/programmer so I have no idea how they make these programs do everything that they do all with the click of a mouse. If you haven’t already done so please report the issues that you’re seeing to BlueBeam so that they can address them. I know @Vince has done this in the past and the items that he has brought to their attention have been resolved.

[David Cutler]

You might be onto something there @Vince !

I think you may have better luck than me since you’re generating content with videos and such. I know that a couple of the YouTube channels that I follow seem to get sponsorship type donations from time to time.😀

[David Cutler]

If the error is consistent @dhwalkellc you might try placing a “sacrificial” tool in that position. That way when the glitch occurs you just ignore the damaged tool until a time when referring your tool is convenient.

[David Cutler]

I’m hitting “like” on these posts, but I don’t “like” what you are seeing!

Great video @Vince !

Yet another reason to have your tools exported and saved to an secure location.

I think I’m going to stay back in Revu 20.2.70 were I’m not seeing these (or other) issues….

😎🍿

[David Cutler]

I hear where you are coming from @Vince

Have you tried using “Edit/Replace” with the .PDF file name in your Excel file?