[Doug McLean]

I’m thinking it was just getting everything set up properly.
Like, how to set the defaults

[Doug McLean]

It’s been a little while since I gave you an update.

Tammy was able to “Ring the Bell” yesterday. 6 months to the day of her first Chemo, was her last one. It was pretty emotional.

CT Scan on Thursday to see what is still in there, if anything. Then a 3 week recovery from Chemo, and then probably some rehab to build up a little stamina, and then we’ll see where it goes.

We did find out that this cancer isn’t genetic, which is good news for the kids. If this was genetic though, the long term treatment options are much better.

Progress now will be a checkup every 3 months for a bit, and keep on keeping on.

[Doug McLean]

kinda surprised that no one has noticed the 1/2″ thick plate steel on the back of the cabinet.

Then to have it polished to a No. 8 mirror finish? That cabinet is going to weigh 500 lbs. when it completed.

Funny, we can achieve the same look with 18g and the steel would be a 10th of the cost.

[Doug McLean]

this is where it gets tricky.

When you do a line like that, and L shape, it creates an outer box which is a bit bigger than the overall size of the markup. It’s that outer box that is causing the issue (or so I’ve found)

There’s no real easy way around this except to make your Spaces a bit larger or to move the markup within the Space after you’ve made the measurement

[Doug McLean]

So I tried going backwards a little.

I started in the Specs and had the drawings open. Did a search through All Open Documents.

Works the same, I just don’t have to create Places

[Doug McLean]

If you copy a profile to create the new one, does the toolbar not stay?

[Doug McLean]

I had forgotten about using a macro to do this.

This is what happens when you’re old I guess 🤣

[Doug McLean]

no silly questions

Yes, this is possible.
Make a blank page with your layers on it, and put something on each layer to make it active.

The you can insert it into your document and they layers will come over.
Then you can delete your template page.

You can do the same thing with Statuses.

[Doug McLean]

with thanks to Carol Hagen

You have nine options.
You’ll have to arrange your Statuses though. Its only the first 9

[Doug McLean]

that’s what Power Query is for

[Doug McLean]

yeah, its a US based drawing

[Doug McLean]

that’s actually worse

You’re limited in how you can use the Batch Hyperlink function.
If you chose a page region in your specification documents, its going to look in that spot on every page of the Spec docs, to match to every page in the drawing set.

This would work if each spec actually had its own page in the Spec book.

Hopefully I explained that right

[Doug McLean]

That would be another use case for sure

[Doug McLean]

I set my Estimating team up with Shared Tool chests and what a difference its making.
The other cool advantage, you can accidently edit one because its locked out.

[Doug McLean]

that I don’t think you can do.