[Doug McLean]

Welcome Brent.

There are tutorials built right into Revu that will get you started before you take your course. Just click on the Help menu.

The number one thing I would recommend though, is to change your profile right away.
Revu>Preferences>Profiles> and then change it to Revu Advanced. This simple thing will change the UI of Revu and make it look like it can do a whole lot more than the out of the box version.

After that, just play a while. Ask questions. Follow people like myself and Troy on LinkedIn.
Join us on Tuesday mornings for the MCR with Jason and Michael over at ATG.

We’re all here to learn from each other.

[Doug McLean]

Using the pen is tricky.
Its not quite so easy to do a markup, access a Rt. Click menu, or move the panel ‘beams’.

Other than that, its quite nice.

[Doug McLean]

(I subscribe to the GIGO philosophy)

My QC starts right when I’m building my tools. If they’re set up right, so many steps become easier all the way through the process.

Reviews at certain steps. Although check points don’t improve quality, they do make sure that its right before it passes to the next step.

I keep a standard BatchConfig file to consistently output only the required data.

Regular updates. Always be looking for ways to improve.

Team reviews. We always review all of our bids as a team. It really helps in making sure that you have everything

Above all else, don’t try to be perfect. You’ll make a mistake. Learn from that mistake, and try not to make it a second time.

[Doug McLean]

The best part about Power Query is that you can simply refresh it once you have a new Markup Summary

[Doug McLean]

I really like the new “Hide Markups” feature.

There are times when I need to place a helper markup (usually a Sketch to Scale type) and then trace over it so I get an exact size. With the new Hide Markups feature, I can just hide it and then delete the helper. Them have the primary markup back in a single click.

Also a fan of the “Multiply” feature.

Not a fan of the new custom dynamic labels though. It still doesn’t work right

[Doug McLean]

Nope, not dreaming.

Its like any other panel, simply grab the icon and move it to where ever you see fit

[Doug McLean]

One of the first things you need to do is change your Preferences.
Revu>Preferences>Window>Tablet
You’ll need to Enable the Tablet Zoom Features, set the Pen and Highlight Cursor to Tablet PC, and set the Touch Input to All Functionality.

You’ll also need to make a couple of Windows changes too. You will need to enable your Windows Ink Workspace and show your touch keyboard. You will also have to set your interactive display to your primary display when using it.

A custom toolbar is also helpful. Ours has Escape, Shift, Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Paste in Place on it. This way you don’t have to engage the touch keyboard.

Once you’ve got it all set up, remember to save your Profile and have fun. Its quite fun to use one of these things.

[Doug McLean]

no… and I wish Architect’s wouldn’t do this.

[Doug McLean]

I believe it has something to do with Studio Projects moving to the Cloud.

One of the things everyone has wanted (besides measurements) is two way document syncing. Moving Studio projects to a cloud environment is supposed to be how they’re going to accomplish this

[Doug McLean]

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

[Doug McLean]

Troy is going to have to put you on commission if you keep this up…lol

[Doug McLean]

Funny you should mention that because that happened this past week.

We had a really odd set of plans from an apartment complex where the elevations didn’t make sense. So we tried to do an overlay with the 1st 2nd and 3rd level floor plans to try and figure it out.

For whatever reason the gridlines weren’t lining up properly using the Overlay, so I switched over to using snapshots.

All of my team are reasonably good Revu users, but I don’t think I’d ever shown them this technique before and it was pretty cool.

[Doug McLean]

its pretty handy.
You can even hide multiple markups, and then unhide them all at once.

Less clunky than the way that it was done before

[Doug McLean]

or @isaac-harned

[Doug McLean]

that’s what Power Query is for