[Roye Arie]

Hey Doug, sorry to hear the news, but hoping for a successful treatment and better news in the future.

I’m glad to hear that things are going to be ok for you guys.

I know we haven’t met in person (maybe Bluebeam will revive XCON and I’ll be able to attend and we’ll finally meat), but we communicated a lot, sharing ideas and thoughts.

Wishing Tammy and swift recovery and in the meantime, if you need to chat/vent hit me up.

[Roye Arie]

I don’t think it’s doable to add a leader to a Cloud+. I also don’t think you can group a Cloud+ with another markup.

My suggestion is that you’ll use a callout box and align the leader with the markup and group them. The limitation of that is that you can’t move the callout markup around without ungrouping.

And like David mentioned, you should match the line weight and color.

[Roye Arie]

Tory, ever since you learned Bluebeam? Umm, I thought you were born with it! LOL!

Welcome all members. It’s such a fun community!
Keep up the good positive discussions!

[Roye Arie]

Are some of the tools lost once you shut your computer off and you find yourself redoing some of the tool set parameters?

(Probably a silly question:) Do you save the toolset once you finish modifying it? Save it to the toolset and to the profile.

[Roye Arie]

Inhale… Exhale… Inhale… Exhale…

It’s such a loaded topic. In summary, it depends what’s your relationship with that person. Are you training him (officially or not officially? Supervising him? Is it a person from a complete different company that does things differently?

I think a lot of that has to do with “what is their end goal”. As a Construction Contract Admin, I don’t get in the depth of full estimating capabilities (at least not with the company I work for, there’s no need for it), I enjoy geeking out on it, but I don’t have daily use for it.

On the flip side, I try to push other limits to make my life easier, my workflow better, and more so to help improve our drawings.

I think the best approach is trying to talk to that person, get an idea for “why”. Why they are doing certain things in a certain way, and go on from there. Ultimately, if they are learning to become the next you, then (if they are open to it) you can dump all the knowledge on them. But start with getting the feeling of what they are going to use Revu for.

[Roye Arie]

Late? Nah, there’s no late to the party. That’s the nice things about the way the boards are structured here. It’s easy to focus on a broader subject and then fine-tune the search to the exact topic, and if it’s not there you create one.

[Roye Arie]

Hey @flipboy465 welcome!

How long you’ve been using Revu? What do you mainly use it for?

[Roye Arie]

Hey @doug, those blogs are great! Easy to read and on point. You will probably reach different crowd posting them here and on LinkedIn, since the audience is different (I assume, not all UC2 members are your LinkedIn friends?).

Personally, in my line of work, I don’t do much estimating with Revu. I do enjoy reading more tricks and tips, I constantly think of ways to improve our usage and workflows (and sometimes I need extra elbow grease to convince people to change the “this is how we do things” mentality) and sometimes I work ways to implement tools in ways they weren’t necessarily designed for.

[Roye Arie]

We’ll take a moment of silence to remember all the ideas the died under the phrase “but that’s how we always done it”…

People don’t like two things: The way things are, and change. People object change for different reasons. That can create little undergrounds of more open minded people that choose to expand their knowledge and learn, better ways or more efficient ways.

When I onboard a new team member I tell them that I’m teaching them what I thing is the best approach for this scenario, but I encourage them to come up with a better way be more efficient with something.

[Roye Arie]

@Doug McLean how is the training program different in person vs. virtual training? Is it mostly the personal interaction in seeing if someone is getting it or not?

There is a barrier in hosting a digital meeting/training, it’s difficult to gauge people’s interest and attention span.

But to your core point of the thread, I think that everyone uses Revu differently depending on their needs, but there are some fundamental basics that everyone should know, and follow.

(One “favorite” pet peeve is the ones that make their markups stand out, so they pick out different, awful, markup colors. Ummm… You guys know that one can filter your markups?)

[Roye Arie]

Thank you Vince. I think that for the time being I’ll live with it as is, without reinstalling.

[Roye Arie]

If I understand your question correctly, you can change the display to “Detail” and add a description in the Comment area.

[Roye Arie]

I think there’s a workaround it with Java. So if you can write a script, it may be doable.

[Roye Arie]

I’m not surprised man! There are plenty of people that are long time users that don’t know of many of the capabilities of setting/customizing toolsets.

It gives you both an advantage and a drawback. The advantage is that you get to coach them and open their eyes to more options, and the drawback is that it takes time, and if you work with multiple people on the team you may need to repeat some training several times until all are in a similar spot.

That’s awesome though. It’s a great feeling helping someone learn something new.

[Roye Arie]

Same thing here. I’ve been swamped at work.

I need to do better and peel-off a bit here and there to participate here on the boards (mostly to soak the knowledge from you phenomenal people), and to watch the videos.