[David Cutler]

I think I remember hearing something about this on ATG’s Morning Coffee Revu earlier this week, but honestly didn’t listen carefully as we don’t use these features.

If you have a reseller that you work with they might be able to provide better information.

Good luck and keep us posted!

[David Cutler]

I know a couple of guys who would suggest that they export their markups as a CSV and then use Power Query to summarize the information and have the headers setup in Excel… 🙂

#revunitrouskit

[David Cutler]

High end finishes for a bar that is going to be behind a door.

Did I mis 14K gold plating on something?

🙂

[David Cutler]

Score 1 for our IT Consultant – he was able to recover everything from a backup! Game on!

Now that everything is right in the world I’ve gone ahead and exported all of my toolboxes to a folder on our shared drive. By the way, why is it that you have to do this with each one individually rather than having the ability to select them all at once????

Probably redundant, but at least I know where they are and how to get them when I mess up again! 🙂

[David Cutler]

A few follow up questions for you @as_mii

– How many sheets are you working with? Guessing that it must be a large number if you are looking to automate the count.

– How often do you need to update the data?

– How many sets of PDFs are you monitoring this data on?

I took a quick look at the markup list on my current takeoff. If you click on the top of the “page” column Revu sorts the markups by the page name and provides a total count of markups on each page.

If you are only looking a small number of pages from time to time this may get you what you are looking for.

If you are working with thousands of pages on hundreds of drawing sets daily this would be cumbersome at best.

[David Cutler]

Welcome to the Brainery @as_mii

I can’t speak to the API as I’ve never explored that feature.

To help us better understand your use case could you provide some additional information?

What is the end result that you are looking for? Number of text boxes? Number of highlights? Number of measurements?

Keep in mind that “count” type markups, depending upon how they are used, could show as 1 markup with a count of 20 items, or as 20 markups with a count of 1 per markup.

I’m sure that we could come up with a solution that would export the markups list to a .CSV and then slice and dice the data contained in the markups list – if it will help you achieve your intended outcome.

[David Cutler]

Not knowing exactly what @mevans is looking to capture I was thinking more along the lines of a bill of materials type markup workflow. First I’d establish standard scaled custom count tools – say 24″ x 10 FT cable tray, 24″ x 3 FT 90 tray bend, etc that could be placed on a scaled print. End result would be a count of how many of each piece you needed – and a layout drawing.

[David Cutler]

Did you end up working up some custom tools @mevans ? I’ve been using some scaled markups that could perhaps be used to create your cable tray ladders. Depending upon how they are setup you could use them for layout and developing material lists…

[David Cutler]

Thank you, as always, for sharing your experience!

[David Cutler]

Thank you @troy-degroot ! Exactly the solution I was hunting for!

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the update @Doug McLean

Glad that you are able to share some good news!

🙂

[David Cutler]

I did see the steel tube frame, but still don’t see the plate – unless the “05 70 00″ is millwork speak for 1/2” steel 🙂

Thought that the steel frame was probably because they don’t want it attached to the concrete wall behind it and didn’t want the thickness that a wood frame would require – or perhaps fire resistance – or seismic?

[David Cutler]

The class is definitely on my to do list @troy-degroot , just have a few work related items on the list ahead of it… 😎

[David Cutler]

Understood @Vince – I might not have worded my suggestion well – could the script tools be added to a tool chest instead of a tool bar?

[David Cutler]

I think this one of the things I need to improve with my system – consistency. Currently my tool chests are mapped to at least 2, maybe 3, different locations and are generally left unlocked. Saving them to one central location and keeping them locked would be a good first step.

I also want to get back to creating “Tool Chest” PDFs that will allow me to change the settings for multiple tools at the same time, rather than individually.