[David Cutler]

Good to know I’m not alone Michelle! Thank you for your reply. What’s interesting here is that I was at the office with my standard setup. Everything is saved to the network drive, but typically we don’t have bandwidth issues.

[David Cutler]

Great discussion topic @Jeff.Collins

Wearing my Project Engineer hard hat a full project PDF would be a wonderful tool! Especially if it was setup with clearly identified layers so that you can toggle off what you don’t need to see. If it was a nice straight job it would be great to plot out a single sheet that I could hang on the wall in the trailer without having to tape multiple sheets together.

Putting on my tie as an Owner’s Representative I cringe over the potential document control issues having “live” documents out there. A flattened, black and white document that can’t be edited is the contract in this world. Having sheet numbers to reference in correspondence, RFI responses and such are key to good documentation.

While some portions of the industry are going digital at every opportunity you are correct that most contractors want paper and a .PDF file that they can print/plot copies at will – and measure in Revu! While they get tattered and dirty you never have to worry about charging a set of paper plans in the field!

[David Cutler]

Fair warning – this isn’t really a “tech” answer @ChrisRiley

The most efficient way to remove the highlights might be to ask for a “clean” file from the person that prepared it originally, if you have access to the person/organization that created the original document

On top of that, if you share the issue with the team that prepared the document originally they might adjust how they prepare their documents in the future so you (or the rest of us) don’t have the issue again.

Good luck!

[David Cutler]

I find it very frustrating when the “tricks” that we learn to make us more efficient in Revu don’t work. Especially when the issue is caused by base file issues – such as multiple layers of text as @vince noted with the double layers of text.

That being said, when I have a PDF set that is high quality and the tricks work I’m thrilled! Hopefully, over time, we will see better and better quality PDFs.

Dave

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the suggestion @troydegroot . I did this (print a new PDF file from the source PDF file) and the file size doubled! Performance seems to be pretty good. Maybe I need to start lobbying for that upgraded computer… 🙂

[David Cutler]

That did the trick @troydegroot ! Thank you!

In case others don’t know what Troy is talking about there is a setting in the “View” menu that allows you to “Disable Line Weights”. This can be very useful when reviewing a drawing, but doesn’t help when you are trying to display a markup on a flattened drawing…

[David Cutler]

Good to know @troydegroot .

Any idea why the system is configured to not allow text highlights to be copied?

I’ve submitted adding the ability to copy text highlights as a product suggestion. Will be interesting to see what response I receive. Maybe it will show up in Revu 21.

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the reference screenshot Michelle!

In the past I’ve used a polygon shape with the color set to yellow and the highlight option checked to highlight. I find that this is helpful when the Text Highlight is auto selecting adjoining information as this can be frustrating in it-self.

If I set this as my default Polygon I can highlight quickly – and would be able to copy them later if needed.

[David Cutler]

Hi Roye,

The highlights were created in Revu 20 Extreme.

Dave

[David Cutler]

I’m not a Studio user, so I’m not sure if this applies, but could their comments be on a layer that is turned off?

[David Cutler]

Autocad SHX markups can be very frustrating to deal with in a document @Michelle Branch

A couple of ideas/workarounds:

1. Select your markups from the “Markup List” rather from the page. If you sort your markups by “Page Label” first you can capture all of the comments that you need to copy from the Markup List using a “Cntrl + click” sequence to gather everything up that you need to copy leaving the Autocad SHX markups behind.

2. You may be able to “Flatten” the Autocad SHX markups so that they are no longer selectable. Again, starting with the Markup List sort by “Author” and select all of the Autocad SHX comments. Next tap the Flatten function and toggle on the “Currently Selected Markups” option. This should make the Autocad SHX comments part of the background so they won’t be able to be selected.

If you are copying comments from multiple people’s markups over to a combined file a couple of more tips:

1. Start with a file that doesn’t have any markups on it and Flatten it first. That way you don’t have to worry about the Autocad SHX comments in future operations. You will likely have to copy markups from an additional file into your master, but the frustration you will save will be worth the extra step.

2. When copying comments use “Paste-In-Place” rather than just “Paste”. Paste-In-Place (Ctrl-Shift-V) will paste the markups into the same position on the new document as they were on the previous document. This is a huge timesaver vs having to reposition comments to ensure that they are in the right place.

3. If you use multiple monitors un-dock your markup list and drag it over onto one of your other monitors and maximize the size of the window. This will allow you to see 3-4 times the number of comments that you see if the markup list is docked at the bottom of your screen.

Hope some or all of this helps!

Dave

[David Cutler]

Great solution @andrew-veggian !

I’ve used the color change option before when making overlays, but haven’t tried to change specific colors.

Going to have to keep this one in mind for future use.

[David Cutler]

I may be wrong @vince , but my understanding is that if you leave the “Allow Markup Recovery (Unflatten)” check box blank your markups should be a permanent part of the PDF that is not able to be “hacked”. This is one of the reasons that it is important to create a copy of the file prior to flattening as @troydegroot suggested so that you maintain your ability to edit your markups.

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the link @troydegroot !

[David Cutler]

Could you expand on “I need to update my list of individual parts to save to the profile before you save the profile” more Troy? I’m getting closer to sharing my custom tools with others on my team and want to make the rollout as smooth as possible.