Member David Cutler
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Something I don’t think I had noticed until the other day is the ability to control the width of the highlighter “line” by changing the font size. So you can use the tool as a broad brush, or as a precision instrument of communication.
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Prayers from Pennsylvania, USA to you and Tammy @Doug McLean 🙏
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Welcome to the Brainery @mattzat
That’s a good question – I have never seen anyone add a second leader to a cloud+ markup. If it is possible I expect someone will be long shortly who knows how. Until then you could probably use a poly line that matches the line weight and color and then group the cloud+ and the added poly line. It’s a bit clunky, but would get the job done.
If it turns out it isn’t available it may be worth making a post to BlueBeam’s “Product Suggestion site:
https://suggestions.bluebeam.com/ideas/new
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Welcome to UChapter2 @sudsy !
You are definitely in the right place to explore the capabilities of Revu.
My primary use of Revu is for civil construction takeoff – which can be very similar to the image you displayed. What are you using to develop these documents currently?
I’d suggest making some time to watch some of the videos at https://uchapter2.com/bluebeam-training-videos/ Our host, @troy-degroot , has some great resources available there.
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Sooo many thoughts on this @Doug McLean …
My manager doesn’t want anything to do with the tools that I’ve built/learning about my workflow with exporting markups/washing in Excel/Importing to B2W.
Very frustrating as I’m sure he could be more efficient with some sharper tools…
Let’s not forget those who cling to that “other” PDF software….
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Welcome to the Brainery @rick-nimtz !
In a presentation last week I saw where a team used a Zoom Whiteboard to collaborate on. They would post the PDF on the whiteboard (not exactly sure how you do this) and then mark it up – I believe with a stylist of some sort. Once they were in agreement they would edit the source document. Might be worth considering.
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I had a demo license for Trimble Business Center at one point a couple of years ago. I used the software to put together a quantity takeoff for one project – with the assistance of the sales rep. It is a very powerful program, but I couldn’t get past the price point – especially since we already have Revu licenses and I have soooo much time invested in my custom Revu tools…
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
What is the program that you were getting trained on @Vince ? Is this an additional service that you are going to start offering to your customers?
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Thank you for the information @Doug McLean 🙂
Unfortunately a quick web search doesn’t indicate that the software can export a U3D or IFC file. Double unfortunately we outsource this analysis so I don’t have the software available to play with… Probably is a way to take it out of AGTEK, into another software that has the capability to generate the U3D or IFC format…
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Glad to hear that Tammy has made it over those initial hurdles @Doug McLean
Absolutely no fun for anyone involved. Continued prayers from south of the border. If you ever need someone to talk with please reach out. 🙂
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
We’ve been together for 27 years. Can be interesting having 2 Engineer’s in the family – especially where most of my career I’ve been on the construction side where she is on the design side. I hope that my “comments” about other people’s designs help her to keep constructability in mind in her designs… 🤣
I’m thrilled that they are moving to Revu. I haven’t used A***** for years so I’m not fluid with the interface. When she (or others) try to show me drawings on that other product I have a tough time using it…
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I can certainly mention the idea to her @troy-degroot !
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Once you apply a highlight you can change the “Line Width” in the properties bar. This also shows a “line weight” in my top menu bar. The default highlight tool has a setting of “12”
If you have a setting that you like you can right click and set the current properties to default. Another option would be to establish an toolchest of highlighters of various widths and colors to have them available at a click of your mouse.
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Points: 27,011Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
I guess that is part of the danger of being the person with the best set of tools in the shop – everyone looks to you to get it done rather than learning to do it themselves – even if you have a sign saying “feel free to borrow any tools” on your toolbox. 🙂
Implementation push may need to come from higher up the ladder. I wonder if when someone like @troy-degroot comes in they get better buy-in from the organization because upper management has brought someone in from outside which implies “this is important to me”.
Maybe you need to get the company to bring in @troy-degroot to implement what you have developed @Doug McLean 🤣