Doug McLean
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Doug McLean
MemberMarch 1, 2022 at 11:04 am in reply to: Which tool to use, polylength or perimeter?Points: 15,212Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue BeltOne other difference is that the Perimeter tool can be dragged to a rectangle, while the Polylength tool cannot.
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If you can’t select them in the markups list, you won’t be able to do much with them, they’ll be embedded within the PDF content.
I’m with David on this one, ask for a clean set of drawings. -
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It should still be able to access the individual files.
Make a drawing log from the Set or use the index page, that is hyperlinked and you should be good to go
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Sometimes the file size of the photo is just too large. If you can’t reduce the filesize, try uploading it to the cloud and then putting a link to the image instead.
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There’s no substitute for bad drawings.
We had one set of drawings, on a major project no less, that had text buried on a hidden layer from ACAD.
The only way I could get automark to read it was to only cover half of the page label with the box.
Bad drawings suck.
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You might just need to apply the right filters.
Could be a lot of things though.
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Its great isn’t it?
I learned most of mine by watching ExcelisFun on YouTube, as well as a couple other Excel people.
Once you get it written, just record a refresh and attach to a button. Even easier.
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Completely agree with Vince.
Macros can do a lot, but can be tricky to write properly.
While Power Query can be a bit tricky to learn, once its done, its fully repeatable. -
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As with most things in Revu, there is more beneath the surface.
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Yes, but it comes when you want to update.
Plus I’m pretty sure you can combine stapled files to make a bigger file
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Ibwill DEFINITELY be there then
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You can do that in Electrical, its really hard to make a template for that stuff in the Finishing trades because Architects cant come up with a consistent naming structure.
I can have WD-1 or W1 or W-1 or WWP-1 or almost any combination you can think of.Plus our GC’s prefer to see things by room, which is where Spaces comes in. That just makes setting up a QL link tricky and time consuming when you only have a week to do a job.
I learned Power Query and didn’t look back.
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well, you can come to Canada, we just can’t drive across to the US right now (we can fly in though 🤷♂️)
I’d LOVE to get our Field teams on board, its hard enough to get some of our PM’s off those dreaded Legacy Workflows -
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Auto creating Spaces would be amazing.
I thought I heard that one can from Revit though. The Spaces transfer over -
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me neither