[David Cutler]

@troy-degroot my custom columns are what I need in my .csv export file to import into B2W, our estimating software:

– Item

– Description

– Quantity

– Unit

– Phase

The “Quantity” column has a simple formula that reports the “measurement” value. The other 4 are prepopulated for each custom tool.

[David Cutler]

You’re closer to figuring it out @Vince than I am. Keep us posted.

[David Cutler]

Looking forward to learning about what you find @Vince

[David Cutler]

I’ve had good luck saving PDFs as Word documents and then copying the text I need from there. I can’t say that I’ve ever tried it with a drawing though…

[David Cutler]

@apssales if it is the “Tool Chest” pane that you are looking to remove the “Comment” column from you could narrow up the pane by hovering your cursor over the joint between the Tool Chest and the document and then left click, hold and drag left. This would work, unless you are looking to see the “Label” column.

Another option, if you have multiple monitors is to “Un-Dock” the Tool chest and move it to another monitor. To do this simply click on the Toolbox icon and drag it somewhere else. You can then close the side panel display completely making the area where you PDF is displayed even larger.

A bonus tip is to un-dock the markup list. This frees up a tremendous amount of space at the bottom of the screen. My standard setup has the markup list on a completely different screen. To do this click on the markup list icon and drag it to another screen.

[David Cutler]

Interesting question @kbolen16

As I start many of my replies, I’m not very familiar with QR/NFC tags. I wonder though if you could set one up that would open a Dashboard in Revu that would then contain the links to the files that you want people to access. Others on here have significant experience with Dashboards and hopefully will chime in with ideas.

Might also be helpful to know who your target end user is – specifically internal vs external – as there may be security issues and such.

[David Cutler]

@Doug McLean you could try reaching out to Liz Larsen as I believe she posted recently that she is presenting.

[David Cutler]

You get the honor of the first post @Vince !

I’m still at the office so I’ll keep by reply brief.

Looking forward to some interesting discussions.

Dave

[David Cutler]

We all have to start someplace @Vince

Having someone break trail for you is priceless! Plus they tend to find all of the spider webs and low hanging snakes…😎

[David Cutler]

What are these “automated functions to import excel to quickly create tool symbols” that you speak of @troy-degroot ? This sounds interesting….

[David Cutler]

I’ll preface this by saying that I don’t have experience setting up/updating links.

Are links classified as markups? If so, I wonder if you could display the link values in a column on the markup list. You then might be able to change them as a group?

[David Cutler]

I usually find the answer to my questions about 5 minutes after I post them @Doug McLean 😎

I keep posting them though so others can learn. Thank you for posting your solution!

[David Cutler]

Always good to start with the end in mind @Doug McLean

Seems as if I’ve heard someone say that before…😎

[David Cutler]

@Roye it appears that there are two options to reply:

1. The “reply” button at the start of the thread

2. The “reply” button that pops up when you hover over a reply. This is what I used for this reply so it appears “indented”.

I hadn’t noticed this myself on other replies that I’ve made. Thank you for mentioning it!

Dave

[David Cutler]

I tried this once I got in front of my computer this morning and it seems as if it could work well with some refinement @matt-hackman

A couple of additional notes:

1. Draw you sawcut gridlines in 1 ft (or smaller) segments of one perimeter measurement (polyline may work also). You can then “split all” to get the individual segments.

2. Draw you grid line once and then copy paste it to increase your grid size. Once you have a 10 ft x 10 ft grid copy that group and replicate it quickly to cover large areas.

3. Leave the bottom and right side piece out so that when you place your duplicate group next to it you don’t double up on the matching edge.

4. The “lasso” tool works great for selecting the segments that you want to remove (thank you @Vince for introducing me to this tool!), though it takes a bit of practice.

Curious to hear what everyone thinks of this idea/how it can be improved!😎