[David Cutler]

I was running out to a meeting when I discovered this issue and made a quick post to start getting the community engaged. Here is a better explanation.

I have a number of custom tools built with 5 custom columns that I need to export as a .CSV for my workflow shown in the first screenshot below. These tools work great and are the foundation of my workflow.

When I started my takeoff in the customer supplied file I noticed that they also have custom columns setup (kudos to the customer to be using custom columns). The challenge is that while the data from my custom tool is being captured, it is being displayed in other columns as shown in the second screenshot below (Item number “80” shows as Phase, Description of “18” Silt Fence” shows as Floor, Unit of Measure of “LF” shows as Area).

What makes it even more interesting is that my “standard” markups that I apply when I insert my cover sheet populate correctly, but the “Phase” item is not in the standard order as shown in the 3rd screenshot below.

I’m thinking that I can go back to the original file, delete their custom columns and then import mine. Just seems to be an additional step to have to “scrub” someone else’s custom columns to use mine.

[David Cutler]

Made a few minutes to watch the video @Vince . Very impressive setup! Thank you for the shout out as a member of the Brainery.

One quick question with your custom line types – are the widths of your lines also set to scale? If yes, how do you account for different scales on different sheets? If no, do your “Noggin Boards” measure accurately where you appear to be measuring from the edge of the lines?

Now I need to make the time to update my custom tools to keep up!

[David Cutler]

Thank you for putting the time into making the video @Vince. I look forward to checking it out this weekend.

[David Cutler]

@jaredp if you are on LinkedIn check out @Vince (Vince French)’s post “#bluebeam Roofing Take-Off”. Vince has put together some amazing custom tools in Revu that may give you some ideas on how to improve your workflow.

[David Cutler]

Interesting question @Vince

I’d be surprised if you could change such a setting. While I understand the desire to reduce clicks I think it could be annoying if Revu went into edit mode every time that you selected an item in the markup list.

You could try this – I run with the “Properties” window “un-docked” on a separate monitor. That way when I click on a markup (either on the drawing or the markup list) I have all of the fields available for editing in the Properties window. This would save you a click if you selected the markup on the drawing and then went right to the Properties window for editing.

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @tshump67 .

Thank you for your question. I’ve never used that feature before, but when I tried this morning (Extreme Version 20.2.60) it seemed to work as expected – no issue with anything being grayed out.

I know I’m not being much help here, but @troy-degroot might have some thoughts on this.

[David Cutler]

I’m not sure I’m understanding your question @Doug McLean

Are you writing a formula in this custom column?

If you are just talking column headers I didn’t have any problems creating one named “Unit of Measure”.

Please provide some more info on what you are trying to accomplish.

[David Cutler]

I’m not sure I’m understanding your question @Vince – I made a custom column with a formula of “Length * Length”. I then made a second custom column with a formula of “Length * Length * Length” with no issues.

Note that the “Length” appears to default to the “Quantity” value so that when I measured an area my column displayed “Area * Area”.

I’m guessing perhaps you are working with something more complicated though…

[David Cutler]

All good points @Vince

Like most endeavors one reaches a point of diminishing returns with the level of detail. If your goal is to develop a detailed parts list for off site cutting Revu is probably not accurate enough. If you’ve goal is to generate a reasonably accurate bill of materials you are definitely there!

Thank you for sharing all of this great information!

[David Cutler]

She just doesn’t understand the life of a Revu addict… 🤣

[David Cutler]

Thank you @troy-degroot for posting the link.

[David Cutler]

I like the idea of “Edit Mode” for the markup list @Vince

I feel your pain on opening up save screens and other actions through single key shortcuts – been there, done that asked my self “how did that happen????”🙂

[David Cutler]

Thank you for posting the question and the answer @Roye

Now we all know!

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the group @tshump67 . Thank you for your question. I gave it a try and it appears that Revu has the same functionality. Here are the steps that I took.

1. Open Revu

2. Open file explorer and locate your word file

3. Click on the word file and drag it into the Revu window

4. You will be prompted to choose a location and name to save the file as

This is a great feature that I didn’t know about. Sometimes I receive quotes from vendors in Word format. I’d rather have them as PDFs. Using this feature I can drag the Word file from the email into a folder then drag it to Revu and have the PDF ready to use. This saves me having to open the Word document and printing it to a PDF.

Note that for some reason it doesn’t appear to work dragging the file directly from Outlook to Revu. Any ideas on this @troy-degroot ?

[David Cutler]

That’s a great question about displaying custom columns in the markup @Vince