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@dchambers I’m not sure I understand your question. Do you have a drawing or some sort of example?

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Glad we had a chance to chat last week @Doug McLean We’ll schedule another one soon. It’s good to hear you’re taking care of yourself through all this, I know all of us are thinking about you. I’m glad you have work to keep your mind busy. You have my number my friend.

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Sorry for the delayed response @jjmurphy

I spent several years creating the 1615 tools included in the free download. Its by no means a complete set for any one part of the industry, but I had to publish them at some point, or I never would have. I hope you understand. Sorry for the confusion.

From here you have a few options. I have worked with many companies to create tools custom to their workflows. I believed tools should reflect exactly how each company works and not be “good enough” and the same for everyone. I do offer custom tool building and training services packed with all my experience if you’re interested.

I also launched a few digital courses that will teach you the basic skills you need to build them yourself. The courses are set up in sequence to be done in order as prerequisites.

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Thanks for sharing David. It seems to me that when he offset, it was just a markup, but I believe you could still convert it to your custom tool after. For now anyway. Exciting times.

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Are you having trouble with the same file, or does it happen no matter what file is open?

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Maybe I’ll update while on vacation next week. I always hate to update in a busy training season (which seems to be more continuous these days)

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I would guess they are scanning the line you said, but there is a setting when they print to select Vector or Raster. I hope it’s that simple and fixed going forward.

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I should probably update, but per typical, I wait a little while. I’m guessing I’ll be jumping straight to Max.

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You could create a custom column in the markup list for the “Unit Type”. Then create a custom column for “# Thus”, and finally a custom column for totals where you multiply all your quantities * # Thus. Adding the Unit Type simply allows you to organize your markups and keep things straight.

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Welcome to the group @Courtney Ward Thanks for posting.

If you open the Forms panel, you will see that each “field” has a name. Use copy/paste so that all the fields you want to match have the same name. That’s it, super simple.

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There are some good ideas here, but also some areas that may confuse others on your team. I read you are the only one in your role, so it works great. When I build tools for customers, I always build them for the intern that hasn’t been hired yet. It should be teachable so they intuitively trip into doing things correctly. If they go out of their way to do it wrong, flags will go up, and we have a teaching opportunity.

What you have works, and sometimes thats all we need. Custom tools and columns are usually evolving the more you learn. Great job digging in and figuring out a way to get what you need.

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I’m still on 21.8, and I haven’t had this issue.

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Was it while working with certain markups, or just random?

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I don’t think this is a solution, but I really hate not having a good answer. If you use Dynamic Fill, you can pull the length measurement from the perimeter of the filled area……

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It looks like you are using the Snap to Content, which would be my first suggestion. Is there any way you can measure through each doorway and use that as waste rather than getting into all the fine details of small bumpouts? Just thinking, some of those very small pieces can be very time-consuming to trace over. Others in the group might also have ideas.