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What do you mean they are in the wrong order? You can drag the columns in the markups list to reorder them however you need. If you would rather import your custom columns, you can do that through the Manage Columns window. You might need to open a drawing with our custom columns and export them before so you know where the file is to import. This will override the existing columns so you can use yours.

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Hey @tshump67 If you go to the menu bar Revu > are you set to View Mode? You might have to go into your preferences and make sure Markup Mode is set as your default.

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I would be interested to learn what you’re doing as well @Doug McLean
If you simply what 2 separate names to lable a numerical value for a choice, you could try the vertical line.. “Material | Cost”

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I know some companies with management software like Newforma prefer users to work through that system. This makes sense because Newforma collects everything from emails to voicemails and everything in between for a complete picture and archive of a project progression.

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Welcome to the group @tshump67
What do you mean by importing word docs? Bluebeam is primarily a PDF software, so you would have to print the word doc to a PDF, then open in Bluebeam. I hope this helps, if not, please share your workflow.

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good point @Vince if you want to remove the markup data from the previous person. Thanks for adding!

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Prime does allow you to use your own servers if I remember correctly.

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Post Link.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vince-french-ab9aaa85_bluebeam-activity-6918815183964377088-YA8e?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web

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Now you can add the correct selection to each custom tool so it’s filled in correctly each time you place it and doesn’t need to be updated. When I build door tools, I have a column for “Door Material” that correlates with the estimating software. Then in all my wood doors, I set it to wood, and all the aluminum to aluminum. That way I never have to update the value, but it’s ready for export. A blank is always my default when I want the user to make a decision, but on each specific tool I fill in as many correct values as possible.

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I love learning from you guys. there are plenty of things I have never tried and this is one of them. I don’t have a suggestion to add to the conversation, but I will say, I like to always keep an original of what was sent to me. So I would prefer to have the original word document in a folder anyway.

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Definitely not an idiot for posting a question we couldn’t answer. You are the smart one who provided the solution! Thanks for posting @Roye

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If you look in the preferences, did you somehow switch to an English UK Language? Weird one for sure.

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You’re right @Vince that would be a compound angle. I would have to do some research as to what the formula would be, but you might need a few custom columns to make it work. Probably a choice menu with different pitches and the decimal value. As far as displaying on the document, the only way I can think is if you manually added the value in the Lable, but that’s a horrible idea! 🤣

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For this one, you use the Length measurement, and add a slope to it. This will do the math and give you a new length.

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When you add the 1,000.00 mm height you are forcing the slope to be different on each example by 1/100th which results in the 4/100th difference in the area. What you want as the “hard number” is the slope rather than the height (rise). The Rise should always be the result of the length and pitch.

If you go by the Rise and Length, you’re no longer using the Slope feature in Bluebeam.

In summary, they’re close, but on the length of a very large building, the “Hard” Rise dimension would continually reduce the slope degrees…. I think it’s time for a beer. 😂🍻