[Doug McLean]

I also hope you’re moving forward with PQ. There’s so much too it.

I’m going to try and do a couple of cool videos over my Christmas break to show some really cool tricks I just learned. (Just have to practice a bit first 😉)

[Doug McLean]

Mine starts early on.

I start by making my Spaces on the floor plans and placing a custom tool that we use for any given Millwork Callout. (We’ve also recently updated this process to include items that we can’t run though our estimating software)

Then I make the corresponding Space markups on the elevation drawings. We name the Space the same as the Millwork Callout so that its easy to tie everything together later.

Next we use a collection of Custom tools designed to work with our estimating software to do all the takeoffs, then its just a matter of running through the process.

The best thing you can do to keep up on your QC is be vigilant. Always make sure that tools are up to date. BatchConfig files are correct, any data tables are current, etc.
Keeping your team up to date too is also very important.

[Doug McLean]

you should be using the Redact function rather than blacking them out and flattening.

Edit> PDF Content> Mark for Redaction (<Shift> +R)
apply your redaction boxes
Edit> PDF Content> Apply Redactions (<Shift> + A)

This will stop anyone being able to search for underlying text.

[Doug McLean]

I’ve complained about this. Even had this shown on the MCR.
Bluebeam, for some reason, can’t seem to replicate this on their computers so its not a problem in their eyes.
It’s kind of a sore spot for me tbh

[Doug McLean]

Give it a try with no spaces, add an underscore or something.

Who knows, just guessing at this point

[Doug McLean]

the Hyperlink off a Space needs to be fixed. In a word its clunky.

Troy has the workflow pretty well laid out, its just too manual for my liking

[Doug McLean]

Troy is right, anyone can change the status.

The edit would come with a colour change once that status has been changed. I.e. it’s marked complete, it changes to green

[Doug McLean]

There are two ways around this.
One is simply Reply to Markup.
The other is custom statuses in Session.

Let’s bring in @lizlarsen on this one, this is her pet project.

[Doug McLean]

Reusing a Query is one of its biggest advantages. You’re going to need to do a little bit of coding to make it work, but its pretty easy stuff.
Maybe I’ll add that to the list 🤔 😁

[Doug McLean]

you need to set up a macro to refresh on open

[Doug McLean]

like when you have update your Power Query to accommodate the new columns?

That’s always fun

[Doug McLean]

Michael Echave and some guys from ATG went to the Dallas one. T
They enjoyed it. The LinkedIn posts I saw from Sydney looked like they had fun as well.
Most of it they said was about upcoming features in both Desktop and Cloud.

The big takeaway for me was the return of XCON, rebranded as Bluebeam Live. It will be next year in DC. I think they said September/ October

[Doug McLean]

its just a Text box tool placed in the elevation pat of the Space.
This is how they look once complete.

You could add the hyperlink to the Millwork Callout instead of just a blank box

[Doug McLean]

I accomplish this by doing a layered Space of Floor-Room-Elevation.
Then I drop a tool in the Elevation Space that is the Millwork Callout, i.e. MW 01.

Then on the elevation drawings, I create another Space labeled MW 01, which I do all my takeoff in.

While they don’t hyperlink together, in most cases the elevation callout does serve as a hyperlink to the elevation.

Later, I can tie everything back together in Excel using the Millwork Callout and the corresponding Space.

[Doug McLean]

not sure if Revu will connect to SharePoint through Studio, but why would you?

SharePoint is the cloud, and so is Studio, why would you go cloud to cloud service?