[David Cutler]

As a follow up I use a “Cover Sheet” on my takeoff files that brings in “Standard” items that we include in every estimate. I copy this cover sheet into my takeoff set when I get started. This sheet also includes my standard layers.

So, what’s interesting is that the markups on the cover sheet are fine – the new columns are right where they need to be and the “Phase” data stayed in the “Phase” column. The newly applied markup has the “Phase” value in the “Unit Price” column… 😜

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[David Cutler]

I probably should have explored this further before posting rather than this play-by-play approach…

If I start with a new blank PDF everything seems to be in the right places – so it appears that my tools are not corrupted… 🙂

[David Cutler]

Bag is packed and my UChapter2 T-Shirt is out ready for me to slip into it Wednesday morning at 0 dark 30. Looking to see what new Bluebeam Revu tricks I can learn.

If you are attending keep an eye out for me. 😎

[David Cutler]

One option might be to create a series of “RFI Cloud Tools” that have the number pre-populated so that when you selected “RFI 1” from your tool chest you’d have “RFI 1” in the text box, select “RFI 2” for the next one, etc. You could have tool chest with 100 tools – or groups of 10, whatever works best for your workflow. Once you use “RFI X” delete it from the tool chest so that RFI X+1 is at the top of the tool chest ready to be selected next.

This is probably more of an analog option than you’re looking for @corbin – but it could save some work in the future.

[David Cutler]

I’ve been using “0” on most of my area measurements lately as I’ve found I can be more “precise”. Not sure it has any impact on my overall price, but I feel like I’m being more accurate… 😎

[David Cutler]

I’m using PQ to wash my data, but need to firm up my processes so that I can re-use the query, instead of re-writing it each time. I’ve played with updating the data source location, but don’t have that dialed in quite yet. I know you’ve said that that process is addressed in your Excon presentation, but I haven’t gone back to dig into it yet…

[David Cutler]

You can set the scale of any toolchest. Simply click on the settings gear and then select “set scale”.

I have a few “scaled” toolchests based on the scales my drawings typically are set at. What is neat is if you have a markup that is say 10 feet long on a 1:20 scale sheet when you paste it to a 1:10 sheet it will automatically self adjust to the markup to the new scale.

This is really handy if you have a proposed condition drawing and 1 scale, and an existing condition drawing at another. You can take a snip of the proposed drawing, save it to a scaled toolchest and then apply the scaled snip markup to the existing condition drawing creating a scaled overlay. Bonus tip is to colorize the snip and set it to it’s own layer allowing you to clearly see the snip and toggle it on and off.

[David Cutler]

I see your “save to toolchest” for next time and raise you by suggesting saving it to a “scaled toolchest” so you can use the tool even if the scale is different. 🙂

[David Cutler]

@matt-hackman thought of your original question while using the “multiply” markup feature the yesterday. Thinking this might be a good way to equally space your sawcut lines across an area. You would still need to trim the ends if it is an odd shape, but it is a quick way to cast a series of markups across an area at an even spacing.

[David Cutler]

Just imported the custom columns into my standard items template. I then copied the new standard items page into my takeoff file and deleted the previous sheet. That did the trick! Now everything is in the correct columns!

What’s interesting in this exercise is that I’m pretty sure the standard items template file is the one that I exported the custom columns from in the first place… 🤣

Thank you for helping work through this one @troy-degroot and @Vince

[David Cutler]

Definitely interesting to see how this shakes out. Appears that I need to go back and import the custom columns into my cover sheet file to get them updated too…

I’ve gotten so comfortable using my existing tools that this is a bit frustrating.

[David Cutler]

This seems to have worked @Vince ! Thank you for the suggestion.

What’s interesting is that my “standard” markups that I bring over with my coversheet are now out of whack – especially since that is the file that I exported the custom column format from… 🤣

Never a dull moment in the Revu world!

[David Cutler]

I got frustrated and stopped messing with it last night. Most of my tools don’t “need” this to work as I can work with the standard “quantity” column. I could also build out a series of factor columns if I wanted to that would get everything into the right units. Just need to find the time to invest… 🙂

[David Cutler]

I can see having multiple columns with the same name happening very easily – especially if you are using different column layouts in different profiles…

[David Cutler]

Unfortunately I don’t have a good trick to automate this @corbin

A relatively painless way to create a series of tools would be to create a blank PDF that you use to create your tools on. Create your RFI 1 tool and apply it 10 times on the sheet and then edit the caption for your sequence. Next copy those 10 markups and paste them into another column and make those 11-20 and so on.

In your tool chests window create a “RFI” tool chest. Once you build out the number that you want to have available select them all, right click and save them to your RFI tool chest.

Realistically you could probably build out 100 tools in an hour or 2 and have them available to use over and over again.

You could up your game with some custom columns to collect various pieces of information related to the RFI that could later be exported to create a RFI log….