[Jeffrey Collins]

Are you checking the file out? I had a similar issue with powerpoint in the past.

[Jeffrey Collins]

Thanks for sharing. I’ve never implemented anything for a municipality or agency doing reviews, but have shared with some, what could be done with Revu. Some of the exact things you mentioned in your article, so I’ll be sharing that for additional support.

Do you have any tips for “pushing” an agency to do electronic reviews? Something that possibly doesn’t sound like complaining.

[Jeffrey Collins]

Thanks for sharing @David Cutler

“…it was setup with clearly identified layers so that you can toggle off what you don’t need to see.” Agree with this, certainly related, teaching people pdf’s can have layers is also important and a step to reducing the plan types needed.

“If it was a nice straight job it would be great to plot out a single sheet that I could hang on the wall in the trailer without having to tape multiple sheets together.” Funny thing is designers do this during the early stages of design and then we chop it (additional time and money) to give it to contractors.

“Having sheet numbers to reference in correspondence, RFI responses and such are key to good documentation.” Could still have sheet numbers and we have alignments (in the world I’m use to) that could be referenced. Adding layers that can be manipulated would add a wringle, but maybe then there’s a “flat” contract plan and then a user friendly “smart” pdf.

[Jeffrey Collins]

@troydegroot thanks for sharing the video.

That is a work around for sure and exactly supports my point. I’m responsible for creating the cut sheets (which honestly is a pain and time consuming), that then someone would need to do those steps for. On most projects this needs to be done for multiple different plan types, having to do the “same thing” numerous times. We (designers) should just be creating the combined version in the first place. Taking a step back, maybe it starts with going with the familiar, standard sheet sizes, but including a master/index sheet that is larger and has hyperlinks to individual sheets if those are needed/wanted for other purposes.

In theory this leads to no cut sheets, just multiple different plan types, taking plan sets from hundreds of sheets to tens of sheets. Which in return becomes familiar and is the step into 3D pdfs and digital models.