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As always, I’m going to hold off for a little while. I was hoping for 21.7.1 with just bug fixes, so I’m still back a few updates. I did have some students yesterday who had upgraded; they didn’t mention anything in class.

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Some manufacturers have AutoDesk and Bluebeam tools ready to download. If you want to talk about custom tools, we can set up a call so I can put together a proposal. Click here to schedule a call. https://uchapter2.com/contact-us/

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Wanted to give in Tammy’s name.

I see Heidi Wiebe or Tyler Hesketh as team options. Which one should we pick, if it matters?

[Troy DeGroot]

If the total length of a bent bar around the box culvert is 6′-6″, you would have a column to enter that. Add a column indicating the bar spacing. Then your Polylength tool measures the length of the culvert, telling you how many bars based on the spacing. Last, build a formula column to multiply the bar length by the number of bars. Thoughts? Also, make a custom column for the bar size so you can sort by size and find those totals.

[Troy DeGroot]

Nice tip, thanks for sharing!

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This is great @David Cutler. I’ve built tools and custom columns for customers that match the estimating software for import. Sometimes the data in those columns is empty in Bluebeam, like you said. I simply hide those columns in Bluebeam to reduce clutter. They can still export, but we don’t need to see them. Unless, of course, you’re adding value by using them differently, like you are.

Great post, thanks for sharing!

[Troy DeGroot]

They are a utility company laying out underground gas and electric, along with overhead electric. They were flexible on the linestyles, so we got it to work out.

[Troy DeGroot]

Done.

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Maybe I’m overthinking it. Is this in Bluebeam? How did you create a line with 2 colors?

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I was thinking, rather than fixing them, you could remove them and recreate them correctly using the labels. I’m confident you have it diled in, just asking for the sake of learning.

[Troy DeGroot]

@lizlarsen Would it be faster to create the page labels and then create the bookmarks using those?

[Troy DeGroot]

Unfortunately, I don’t see an easy solution. I’m excited to see what Claude can do and start playing with it.

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They are sequencing doors to match the door schedule and working with a 140-page document. The sequence is continuing from sheet to sheet, so Slip Sheet isn’t an option. That was my first thought as well. The revised plans don’t have the same number of sheets either, so importing may not land the markups on the correct sheet, or any sheet after that.

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Users don’t know what they don’t know, and trainers can train until they know what the user doesn’t know. 🤣

Perhaps I should deliver my Other 85% presentation to the Brainery Community.

[Troy DeGroot]

The Stitching button is located in the current interface; it’s a side panel that you need to activate. But before you get too excited, I don’t think the tool is ready, and there is no documentation anywhere showing how to use it yet. I very quickly tried to figure it out, but had to move to some other pressing work.

A developer reached out to me about 2 years ago, asking about my video and workflow. Providing him with an understanding of how I stitched the drawings together and why the industry needs that functionality was the kickstart of the Stitching tool. Can’t wait to see it in action.