

David Cutler
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
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! 🙂
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
Could you put the script tools into a Tool Chest and then make that Tool Chest “Visible In All Profiles”?
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
Great question @Roye !
I’ve done something similar to @carlwegman – I have an “BSD Standard Items” sheet that I keep pinned to my file access panel. This file includes items that we include in every estimate such as Supervision, Layout, Mobilization, Test Pits, Etc., along with my standard layers. When I’m ready to start a new takeoff I add this sheet to my drawing package and have all of my standard layers ready to go. I don’t delete the sheet though as I want to ensure the standard items end up in my markups list export.
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
Just used this to add bookmarks to a 15 page “scope” document and it worked slick! Will be much easier to find the sections that I’m looking for in the future!🙂
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
My “Alt-Z” seems to be working fine (Revu 20.3.20).
What’s getting frustrating is that Revu has locked up on me at least 3 times in the last 2 hours where I’ve had to close Revu from the Task Manager and restart it. Lost a bit of work each time. Never seem to save often enough! ☹
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David Cutler
MemberMay 27, 2024 at 12:00 pm in reply to: from proposed to as-builts to proposed phasePoints: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IINice application of Revu @wirelineinc !
My initial thought would be to establish layers for the steps in your process. This makes it easy to toggle on and off the information that you want to see.
I believe that could do something similar using statuses, but I’m not as familiar with them.
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
I was glad to hear Tuesday on MCR that Tammy was recovering well @Doug McLean
Prayers for more good news in the coming weeks and months.
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
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?
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
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.
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David Cutler
MemberMay 29, 2024 at 12:22 pm in reply to: from proposed to as-builts to proposed phasePoints: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIMaybe the ultimate solution is a combination of layers and statuses with copies of the file saved as issued… 🙂
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
That sounds as if it would be incredibly limiting @Vince – and probably very frustrating!
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
Hopefully these will help @Vince
In this example I want to measure a sawcut 2 foot off of a curb line. Basically follow the steps as outlined above. It takes a few steps and looks a bit choppy when I’m zoomed in this tight, but it works.
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Points: 30,030Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
Had another thought for you on this @troy-degroot
This would be a 5 – click method:
1. Select your custom tool – note that it would need to be a polylength tool
2. Click on the starting point of the valley/ridge – call this the “A” point
3. Click on the end of the valley/ridge on the plan view – the “B” point
4. Extend the measurement line perpendicular to your “AB” line a length equal to the rise to establish your “C” point. Finish the measurement here.
5. Select the “Subtract Control Point” tool and remove point “B”. This leaves you with the measurement along the slope from “A” to “C”.
I’ve been using a similar process recently when I need to offset at line – say for paving restoration along a curbline. I start on the curbline (my “A” point), move out the specified distance (“B” point), place my next point along the curb at a direction change (“C1” point), then move out the specified distance perpendicular to the line at the “C1” point to establish my “D1” point and then continue along establishing a series of “Cx” and “Dx” points. Once I’ve gotten to then end of the measurement I select the “Subtract Control Point” tool and delete the “C” points. What is left behind is offset from my baseline consistently by the distance between the “C” and “D” points. This also works with area tools, but you have to pick your return pass points carefully to avoid crossing the measurement lines…
This take some practice, but avoids having to create multiple offset lines…