[Doug McLean]

All three members of my team use the same toolchest.
They’re designed around our Estimating software so its pretty critical that everyone is using the customized tool chests.

[Doug McLean]

its pretty cool.

Watching Luke do the Offset as function opened my eyes a little.

I tried it out and showed my team, and we all were a little blown away

[Doug McLean]

We’ve heard May, but when in May is up in the air.

Luke Prescott is coming on to the MCR on the 21st, so maybe we’ll know more then

[Doug McLean]

I’ve had some issues with the Word Plugin.

Other than that though, nothing outrageous.

[Doug McLean]

I have had none of those issues, but I’m on the MAX Beta.
Not seeing them from other member of my team either.

[Doug McLean]

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.

[Doug McLean]

Welcome to the Brainery, Courtney.

[Doug McLean]

I hope everyone learned something

[Doug McLean]

Found it.

[Doug McLean]

There’s a link to the submission page in the upper right hand corner of the page.

[Doug McLean]

I do something similar.
What I have is a custom column called “Floor Multiplier”; Just set your default to 1.
Then you can simply do the math.

[Doug McLean]

Not sure how it’ll work eventually, but in the beta, you could only access your custom tools with Convert to via a keyboard shortcut.

All in all MAX is pretty cool if you do a lot of the things that they show you it can do. I think they will probably get a lot of Revit users signed up as well because of the new integrations there.

[Doug McLean]

Its a problem with all the finishing trades. There isn’t a easy solution for any of our takeoffs

[Doug McLean]

I can deal with that in PQ 😉

[Doug McLean]

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.