Doug McLean
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I have had none of those issues, but I’m on the MAX Beta.
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I feel you.
Two things I HATE doing. Window Sills and Baseboard. Both very time consuming. Might be something to try when the AI gets better.
When I do these on large scale projects I tend to only do one of each unit type.
Then with two custom columns, Floor Multiplier and Quantity, that will get me close enough for all that I need to take off.I will also do any odd or custom rooms on their own.
You can also copy/ paste like rooms. And mirror them. Not perfect, but it helps. Any minor adjustments can be made along the way.
I agree with Troy on this, don’t worry about your door openings. Let that be your waste. You’re going to order your base in 16 – 20′ lengths anyways, you’ll be covered.
Anyways, hope this was helpful.
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Doug McLean
MemberFebruary 27, 2026 at 9:15 am in reply to: Bluebeam Revu: How to Auto‑Populate Matching Fields in a Fillable Form?Points: 18,561Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue Belt III
Welcome to the Brainery, Courtney.
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I hope everyone learned something
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and of course I can’t find it now…lol.
I use the Headers and Footers feature to add a Tag already, so that is one way to do it en masse
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probably the same technique though.
Placing a Custom Tag and then a Custom sorting Template.
I made one for one of our customers that broke down the drawings by their nomenclature
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this is new
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this is new.
I doubt I would ever suspect the software if a keystroke wasn’t working. I’d be wondering what was up with my keyboard.Good to know though.
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Doug McLean
MemberJanuary 12, 2026 at 10:22 am in reply to: User beware – Markup Summary overwritesPoints: 18,561Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue Belt III
There is an Overwrite Existing File checkbox on the Batch Summary dialog box.
Uncheck that if you don’t want your original file to be overwritten -
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other than having to spend WAY too much time in hospitals on this vacation (thank goodness we get free parking), its been a much welcome amount of time off.
Don’t worry, most of the hospital time has been scheduled visits, there has just been a lot of them.
Here’s to a great 2026.
Can’t wait to do the full Unbound presentation to everyone. I won’t be abridging it like I did on the MCR, y’all will get the full meal deal 😉 -
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Its a problem with all the finishing trades. There isn’t a easy solution for any of our takeoffs
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Doug McLean
MemberFebruary 27, 2026 at 10:08 am in reply to: User beware – Markup Summary overwritesPoints: 18,561Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue Belt III
I can deal with that in PQ 😉
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I do. I use that for the Drawing package.
For this particular template, they use those codes as a prefix to their drawings labels, so it picks it up from the page label.
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They made this available in 18.1 or something.