[Doug McLean]

Hey Bruce

At least you found the party… lol

Never too late to start learning.

Like Troy said, we look forward to learning as much from you as you do from us

[Doug McLean]

What you might need is a dynamic stamp.

Here are two people who could help you out

@lizlarsen @isaac-harned

[Doug McLean]

Layers are something I’m just opening our team up to in Revu. With most of our people familiar with ACAD layers, this isn’t too hard to explain, its more about knowing what they can do.
With any luck, more and more people are going to start to see the benefits.

[Doug McLean]

Yesterday, I walked the PM on this project through adding a Custom Tool chest to Revu.
Just a little something I created, very similar to the Architect Review tool chest that comes stock with Revu.
At the end of this, he says to me now you’ll have to show me how to use this because this is the first time I’ve seen this tool chest thing. 🤯😱
We have far too many people here using the tool bars, and not the tool chests when they’re doing their markups.

The Project Coordinator on the job LOVED the idea, and what options it will give her.

THIS is what I’m starting with.

[Doug McLean]

Makes you wonder if many of these are the reasons that Bluebeam Cloud really hasn’t taken off like they thought it would.
People want their software to work, not be glitchy.

[Doug McLean]

I’ll have to find some time to watch this one.
The problem with this being the middle of the work day is that well, I have to work… lol

[Doug McLean]

this is new

[Doug McLean]

it seems that Bluebeam has also applied a fix for this in the first update for Revu 21.

Its #5

[Doug McLean]

Welcome to the Brainery.

Care to share a little more info on what you do and how you’re using Revu?

[Doug McLean]

One of the things I’m finding initially is to use the Tool chest tools, rather than the Tool BAR tools.
I set us specific tool chests for the various job descriptions, that are all colour coded, specific subject, and set layers… now its getting everyone to USE those instead of the generic ones that live on the tool bars.

[Doug McLean]

right now, its just in the beginning shop drawing stage.
We’re doing all the project startup stuff, finalizing schedule, finalizing scope… all that stuff.

Its going to be pretty wild when its all done.

[Doug McLean]

I like the Lunch and Learn idea. I should schedule one of those.

One thing I’m going to do is go way back to the old TWI methods.of training where you show quick, show slower with some explanations, and then show again with more explanations and more whys. That method has worked for decades, yet we abandoned it.

I used it with our previous Estimator and she was fully up to speed in 6 weeks.

[Doug McLean]

When I create a custom column, (for example a specific Part Number) can I then assign that text to show up as a Caption on my takeoff? Right now when I enable Show Caption and click Edit the only options I see are Label, Length, Depth, Wall Area, Rise/Drop – can I add any other values to this pickable list? – Most likely not. These are embedded tools in Revu, I don’t see a way to add them. Maybe a feature suggestion?

Several times after completing my color coded takeoff and printing to a color PDF in Bluebeam when I open the resulting file it shows up as Greyscale in Bluebeam, but in other PDF readers it shows up color as expected. Any thoughts on why this is happening? –

Why are you printing to PDF after you’ve done your markups? It’s not necessary.

[Doug McLean]

profiles, custom stamps,… anything like that should also be exported.
You can also Export your Preferences for Import into the new computer

[Doug McLean]

One of the headaches with the markups list is that there is no if statement available.

The work around is get the data to Excel or some other estimating software and do the math there.