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  • David Cutler

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    May 25, 2021 at 9:38 am in reply to: Multiple hyperlinks in a markup
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    I haven’t tried hyperlinks yet, but might this work?

    Create a group of a single line and text – lets say an orange line with the text “orange line”

    Attach a hyperlink to the Orange Line group

    Repeat above for yellow, purple, green etc.

    Then create a new group with all of the individual groups. This “master group” might need to be ungrouped once it’s applied in order to enable the individual hyperlinks to be followed.

  • David Cutler

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    May 24, 2021 at 5:21 am in reply to: Finding Studio Admin Contact
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    I love it when the “simple” solution pops into my mind after I’ve been struggling with difficult ways to get through something!

  • David Cutler

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    May 12, 2021 at 5:18 am in reply to: Importing BlueBeam BAX file markups
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    Your workflow is well above my experience level Glenn! Thinking about it, what I’m wondering is where is the program is finding the “original values” if you’ve modified them? If it is in the compressed section that you referred to above is there a way to modify the compressed section also? Maybe try deleting the compressed section and seeing if it will load off of the uncompressed data?

    Another thought, not knowing the number of markup values that you are working with is it reasonable to key the updated data back in?

  • David Cutler

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    May 10, 2021 at 6:48 am in reply to: Importing custom measurement tools
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    Thank you for your response @troydegroot . I’ll have to look into layers more as I haven’t used them much in Bluebeam, yet…

  • David Cutler

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    June 23, 2021 at 9:21 am in reply to: Converting from perimeter measurements to polylengths
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    And thickens…

    I was able to modify the formula in my custom column for “Quantity” to include the “Rise/Drop” value. Unfortunately, when I added this to the formula the system stopped reporting a value in the “Quantity” column for any measurement that doesn’t have a “Rise/Drop” value. Ugh.

    Time to go back to the old fashioned way to get this one off my desk. I’m open to suggestion @troydegroot and others!

  • David Cutler

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    June 23, 2021 at 8:59 am in reply to: Converting from perimeter measurements to polylengths
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    The plot thickens!

    One of my custom columns is setup to capture the quantity that was measured. Unfortunately the way I have this configured the quantity reported doesn’t include the rise/drop quantity – so a service that is 40 lf to the curb with a 10 lf extension that should indicate a 50 ft total still displays 40 ft…

    Time to dig back into my custom column setup and see if I can figure how to get it to capture the rise/drop quantity.

  • David Cutler

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    June 23, 2021 at 8:06 am in reply to: Converting from perimeter measurements to polylengths
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    Thank you for the quick reply @troydegroot

    “Distance behind curb” would be similar to “height above floor” for a wire run – I’m just looking to add an additional horizontal length rather than a vertical length. For the civil site side “distance behind curb” is a typical term for how far from the edge of the road we extend utilities towards the house.

    I guess the biggest lesson of the day is that our tools should be “polylength” measurements rather than “perimeter” measurements. Hopefully others can learn from this experience!

  • David Cutler

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    June 21, 2021 at 4:50 am in reply to: “The file you are opening contains Layers.”
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    I don’t remember seeing it.

  • David Cutler

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    June 17, 2021 at 7:30 am in reply to: Auto bookmarking producing gibberish
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    Thank you @troy-degroot I’ll try the flattening routine.

  • David Cutler

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    June 10, 2021 at 6:52 am in reply to: Estimate cover sheets
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    Thank you for the tip @andrew-veggian I’ll have to check that out!

  • David Cutler

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    June 8, 2021 at 6:14 am in reply to: Any tips for using arc markups for takeoff?
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    Good morning Doug. I’m using 2019 Standard version. Yet another reason to upgrade to Version 20. I was afraid I was pushing my computer too hard and overloading it.

    Thank you!

    Dave

  • David Cutler

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    May 24, 2021 at 5:31 am in reply to: Keeping your tools close
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    @troy I had no idea that you could undock the Markup List! That is going to be great for monitor real-estate management!

  • David Cutler

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    May 13, 2021 at 9:11 am in reply to: Spell Check!
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    I do not know if it is case sensitive Roye. That’s a good question.

  • David Cutler

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    May 12, 2021 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Importing BlueBeam BAX file markups
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    Good afternoon Glenn,

    Your file sounds like some of mine – lots of individual markups. With my workflow once I export it in a CSV format I don’t go back into Revu so I don’t know that I’m much help at this point. Perhaps @lizlarsen or @doug-mclean might jump in…

    Dave

  • David Cutler

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    May 7, 2021 at 12:36 pm in reply to: Importing custom measurement tools
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    I was afraid that you would say that @troydegroot 🙂

    Ideally I would setup custom tools for each of our pay items. Some are counts – “Sanitary Manhole” for example. Others are lengths – “Concrete Curb”. Some are areas – “Fine Grade Subgrade”. I create them on the fly now as I need them, wondering if there might be a way of automating the process. Might be time to hire a summer intern..

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