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  • Doug McLean

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    December 5, 2023 at 9:46 am in reply to: Timber stud wall tool need help please
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    I see what your problem is. 400mm is .4 meters, not .400mm

    You should always set metric scales as mm to mm. Never do mm to M, you’ll mess yourself up.

    You should also use Measurement instead of length.

  • Doug McLean

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    December 5, 2023 at 8:11 am in reply to: Timber stud wall tool need help please
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    should it not just be a typical stud wall formula?

  • Doug McLean

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    December 4, 2023 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Line Position for Polylength Takeoff
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    is this a Revu 21 thing? I’m not too sure what you mean when you’re talking about alignment.

    the default in Revu 20 is center and there doesn’t seem to be a way to change it (or am I missing something)

  • Doug McLean

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    December 1, 2023 at 3:07 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    I’ve quietly started with a few people on custom toolsets. (Basically I took the stock toolsets from the Revu profile and tweaked them) They all seem to actually like and understand the purpose of doing that.

    I’ve also started using the Status Column more, complete with Custom Statuses, and have also introduced a Responsibility Column for anything that we have to have a vendor for.

    I think I’m just going to keep putting these into my bids and see if anyone actually notices.
    Start doing full markup summaries and leaving little breadcrumbs.

    Maybe, eventually, someone will ask how I did that.

  • Doug McLean

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    November 14, 2023 at 2:44 pm in reply to: How do I undo this mess??????
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    To err is human,

    To REALLY foul things up, requires a computer.

    Glad you got it all sorted out

  • Doug McLean

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    December 5, 2023 at 9:58 am in reply to: Timber stud wall tool need help please
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    just use .4m instead of .400mm in your formula.
    Or use 400mm.

  • Doug McLean

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    December 5, 2023 at 8:46 am in reply to: Timber stud wall tool need help please
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    yes, but you should always use the Measurement column in your formulas ILO length

  • Doug McLean

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    December 4, 2023 at 5:05 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    what part…. its a REALLY BIG country…lol

    I’m taking a couple of weeks off around then, so if you’re coming to the Vancouver area, we can get together.

    I could probably even swing a shop tour if your family will let you get away.

  • Doug McLean

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    December 4, 2023 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    most dangerous phrase in business…. “We’ve always done it that way!”

  • Doug McLean

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    December 4, 2023 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    I’ve been doing that, but instead of getting people to want to learn, they just want me to do more.

    I was asked about two weeks ago to show all the glass we have in the mall project we’re working on. I mentioned to the Sr. Project Manager that yeah, you guys need to learn how to do the export, he more or less dismissed that notion. They honestly have no concept of what the markups list can actually do for them.

    Its so frustrating that since 2019 or so, almost no-one here has even bothered to see what more Revu can even do.

    I did do that full Markup summary anyways, left it sitting in a folder. We’ll see if it even gets noticed. (I like leaving it, accidently on purpose, on a printer though).

  • Doug McLean

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    December 4, 2023 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    I love it when I get them in a room and I get that ‘ah ha’ moment. Problem is, I’m not getting them in the room.

    Once I get them there though…

  • Doug McLean

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    December 1, 2023 at 3:02 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    all great points

  • Doug McLean

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    December 1, 2023 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Release the Kraken
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    lol… breathing

    Honestly, the problem here goes deeper than one person, although there is more or less one at the center of it.

    I did have a whole training program in place, but then Covid hit and we weren’t allowed to do any group training.

  • Doug McLean

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    November 27, 2023 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Tools for steel column take offs
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    you can also add measurement attributes to a count too, look into that a bit as well

  • Doug McLean

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    November 16, 2023 at 1:35 pm in reply to: How do I undo this mess??????
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    you can easily create a Set drawing log, that includes the filepath if you need too.

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