[Doug McLean]

It works, but it’s updating the Set when it’s in a cloud environment that is the challenge.

It’s really hard to explain what all it does, but let me say that it’s much easier to do it in Windows.

[Doug McLean]

Sets and SharePoint have a somewhat complicated relationship.
Sets and Studio are even less compatible… lol

As for the page labels, I’ve never had that happen, but I start with them in the cloud. I would try and put them all back together as one document and re-running the page labels with the files on the cloud first. See what that gets you.

[Doug McLean]

Nice to you’re playing with the new formulas. (wrapcols)

Revu does offer a couple of easy ways to produce a drawing index. One is from Bookmarks, the other is from Sets.
Pretty handy if you ever need them

[Doug McLean]

One of the other things they could do it not just copy/ paste a spec from a previous job.

[Doug McLean]

welcome to the site.

Something like that is probably a custom tool.
Maybe check the tool sets that @troy-degroot has built, or the Bluebeam website

[Doug McLean]

Things I tell designers is to take standard material sizes into account when you’re designing something.
You don’t know how many times I get something made out of solid wood that has a finished size of 2″.
Standard solid wood sizes are 4/4, 6/4, 8/4,and 10/4 (if we can get it). So for a 2″ finish, we need to either get 10/4 OR laminate two pieces together to reach 2″ thick. It effects cost.
You don’t know how many times I see stuff 50″ wide… which requires me to price a 5 x 12 sheet, which 25% of ends up as waste. Again, adds to the cost.
There are so many times when they just don’t take material size limits into account in their design.

[Doug McLean]

yeah, that’s doable. Most doors are 21 sqft, so that makes it pretty easy

It would all depend on what you want though, how close of count do you need?
If I’m taking off something like sequenced wall paneling around a window, I need the veneer that would have gone where the window is. Doesn’t matter that the customer isn’t getting it, they’re still paying for it. It may not show up the finished quantity of wall paneling, but we’d better account for it during ordering and layups.
Same thing with a door skin, only I need to keep that and mark it as such so that it stays for the door and all blends in with the surrounding wall paneling.

What I tell people though is to just leave it in, but then not to add anything for waste.

[Doug McLean]

well I can definitely get an image report and then twist the data to whatever is needed.
Pulling data from that image in itself will be up to Microsoft and what all they allow to be read in the metadata

[Doug McLean]

Not really sure that’s going to be possible with image data.

Although, Excel is releasing a new feature soon where you can import image data into a cell.

[Doug McLean]

the folder structure is set, that’s not the issue, its the location of that folder structure within our Jobs/ Estimating Drive.
Every project has a different starting location, which is the main problem really, even being on SharePoint.
It would just be nice to not have to set up those initial links.

[Doug McLean]

oh I hear that, the new formulas are wonderful.
I recently changed my filepath formula to using textbefore from the left and find functions… so much easier.

[Doug McLean]

@lizlarsen is mulling this over as I understand it

[Doug McLean]

You would have to match the tags on the updated drawings to whatever you put on the previous page

[Doug McLean]

We don’t, but that does happen with our local AWMAC (Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada) office.
I’m pretty sure that AWI does the same in the US, but its a big struggle.

[Doug McLean]

partially.