[Doug McLean]

Short answer, I ignore them.

Long answer, it depends.

If the opening is significant, then I just won’t even mark them up, but even that depends.

In Millwork, in something like Wall paneling, depending on how the grain sequencing and matching is specified, I may have to take off the full panel regardless. In those cases the customer is PAYING for the waste to meet the spec.
For example, if we get a spec where the veneer has to be sequence matched and there is a window in the elevation with paneling on all four sides of the window, I need to allow for all that veneer in the middle so that we can maintain the sequence.

[Doug McLean]

I actually have two separate data files.
One that has my ‘punch list’ items (my scope list symbols) and then there is another with all my markups.

I eventually bring these together later however

[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]

we try not to let it pile up… lol

[Doug McLean]

The one headache I see to this Vince is on projects where we’re not allowed to use AI on.

Our company policy is that we’re not permitted to use AI agents on projects that we’re under an NDA on, which leaves out one of our largest contracts.

People are still going to need to know how to actually do something when the AI goes all awry

[Doug McLean]

he told me this morning, its pretty cool

[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