[Doug McLean]

Revu allows you the ability to open multiple copies of the drawings in multiple tabs at the same time.
Simply split your screen. The drag the new tab to another monitor.

[Doug McLean]

This is new… something to keep an eye on though

[Doug McLean]

If Bluebeam would add a simple IF function, this would all be possible.

As it stands now, you have to export the data to Excel or Google Sheets to do that.

[Doug McLean]

We were just upgraded to Revu 21, but I haven’t had the chance to even look at Cloud due to my current schedule.

I do want to dive into this, as we do do a fair amount of field work.

We shall see

[Doug McLean]

It’s a Setting, well it is when you’re working with Sets anyways.

Go into your Preferences > Sets > Set Options > Open Documents: New Tab (or New Tab in front, which puts it first in your list)

Its one of the advantages with working in Sets or individual pages.
A Hyperlink essentially opens a new document, in a new tab.
I detest having to work backwards to try and find my previous page, this way its just another tab. (Of course, I’ll end up with 20-25 tabs open at once and get lost 🤣 anyways)

If I’m actually working with a full drawing package, 9 times out of 10 I’ll split my screen first, and then click the link in the second screen.

[Doug McLean]

I had a newly saved template do that to me last week.

I had to save it in the default folder for it to work

[Doug McLean]

Axel is a little odd like that. Sometimes its tough enough just to get ahold of him.

That workflow sounds really interesting. We should set up a Teams meeting. I can include my whole team on that so we can all see it in action.

[Doug McLean]

Hey John

You and I should talk more…. its been a while since we last did.

I also use Takeoff and have developed an entire workflow to process Revu Markups for direct import into Takeoff (I just wish Axel would make it so that we can do it all at once rather than by room)

[Doug McLean]

I can do that very easily in Excel.

Its just an XLOOKUP function

[Doug McLean]

That all…. mine is 43….lol

I keep telling you guys there are just too many options in Millwork 🤣

[Doug McLean]

I think you’d still need that conditional function

[Doug McLean]

Basically what I want, is the information that is shown in the captions to be available to me in the markups list.

On a 3 point radius, I can turn on the caption for the arc angle, but that isn’t available to me (I would need to use the angle tool for that to show up. Same things with the arc length.

I’d also love it if I could take that arc length and assign it a depth. Its really the only way to properly get the area of a curved wall in Revu. Funny enough, you can assign a depth to the Diameter measurement tool, but sometimes you don’t have the whole circle.

We need better tools for curved work.

[Doug McLean]

Yeah, that’s the workaround, but why should I have to do that, when I can take the 3 Point Radius Tool, do the markup, and then turn on the captions and all that information is already there. It’s just not available to me in the markups list.

[Doug McLean]

try just using the individual pages.

[Doug McLean]

Sets is just a collection of single documents, why does everyone have such a hard time with them?

Working in single pages give you so much more flexibility. Yes it has some drawbacks when it comes to summarizing, but its just a different process.