[David Cutler]

I haven’t ever performed a steel takeoff , but your approach sounds pretty reasonable to me @ChrisRiley

What type of markup tool are you using?

At this point if you only have to click to apply the tool and add two data points it seems you have a pretty efficient system.

[David Cutler]

Ended up deleting the “frozen” markup and starting over on that piece of the takeoff. This time I broke the parking lot into smaller sections so that if I had a similar issue I wouldn’t have to start completely over again…🙂

[David Cutler]

Okay, that wasn’t too bad….

I was able to export my markups from my original file and then import them into a “clean” file that I had available.

All is well now. 🙂

[David Cutler]

Tried to edit the markup on my laptop. No luck.

Updated my Revu to 20.3.15. No change…

[David Cutler]

Glad to hear that they were able to address the issue so quickly @Doug McLean !

[David Cutler]

SQUIREL!!!!!

[David Cutler]

Good to know @isaac-harned ! Thank you for trying this independently.

At this point our workflow isn’t very “high tech” – basically we manage our PDFs the same way we would handle a paper set of drawings. The “original” gets saved to a “plans” folder in our project directory. A copy gets saved into our “takeoff” folder. This is the file that we make our takeoff markups on. Even if we managed to mess up both of these sets we typically have access to the clients cloud storage site to obtain a clean copy. We also have a set on an cloud based file access system for our trade partners. So 99.9% of the time I have access to a “clean” copy.

I know that we could be more sophisticated with our system using “Sets” or “Studio Sessions”, but typically one of us completes the entire takeoff for a proposal so setting these type of systems up would be added work.

At some point I expect that we will transition to digital plans in the field which will require updating our processes – but this may be years in the future…

[David Cutler]

At some point I’ll have to go back an try to replicate what I did – with a sandbox copy of my file – and then see if there is a way to undo it…

[David Cutler]

Must be a glitch in the Matrix….

[David Cutler]

Not using any spaces on this one @Doug McLean

Another thing that is odd is that I can add new control points to the markup, but I cannot delete or move existing or added control points. Another tidbit is that I can add cutout areas, but cannot adjust them either…

[David Cutler]

Thank you for the suggestion @isaac-harned – it’s probably easier to just re-do the markup – only about 30 mouse clicks…

[David Cutler]

That “Dynamic Phil” guy can be a bit fickle @troy-degroot 😎

@dhwalkellc I noticed this issue a while back and haven’t used it much since. While I haven’t tried it with an ellipse I have experimented with a 10 ft x 10 ft square with various line widths. Each provides a different result – not the 100 sf that you would expect.

When performing takeoff you need to be careful about the line weight of the source document as dynamic fill will always measure to the edge of the line, not the center.

[David Cutler]

Great questions @rebecca-yu !

Not sure how much information you are looking to display/what level of detail (individual markups vs summaries), but at a minimum you can include your custom columns in a Legend on each page.

[David Cutler]

So I guess asking for a PDF that includes layers with a naming structure that doesn’t require a PHD to translate is out of the question? 🤣

[David Cutler]

@Vince perhaps you could “coach” your clients (or their clients) to require consistent file naming from their designers. If part of their design agreement is that files are to named following an established naming convention and the client enforces this requirement I’d expect that the designers would shape up quickly after being required by the client to rename 500 files to meet the standards a few times… 🙂

“What is important to my boss is important to me”, Author Unknown – but a very smart person for sure!