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@matt-hackman Have you tried the export to Excel or Word functions under the File menu? You can draw a region around a drawing schedule and export it directly to Excel. Maybe this would help?…

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YES, what an amazing country we live in. Hope everyone had a safe holiday weekend. I’m close enough to Canada, I took Friday and Monday off. 😂

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Awesome @David Cutler glad you’re in the group and all the contributions you provide. We’re all busy and your willingness to help out in the group does not go unnoticed.

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Awesome tip @dhwalkellc Thanks for being in the group and sharing!

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Great question @kbolen16 Java is not my expertise, but I really hope to learn from the group on this one. I know in the template javascript tools are more geared toward document management. There are no text search codes.

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@mep-bim does it need to be a QR code, or can a markup or button just open the file or website? I guess I’m a little unclear on what’s needed. Can you run through the process with examples? Now you have me curious!

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@apssales I wasn’t able to see the image, but there are only a couple of places a Comments column can show up.

1. Markups List. I doubt this the one your’re having trouble with, but go to the Markup List pulldown menu in the upper left corner of the Markups List, go to Columns and uncheck the Comments. This will hide them.
2. ToolSets. Pretty sure this is what you want to hide, just like so many other users. unfortunetly we cannot remove this or reorder the columns within the toolsets. Because there are automated fuctions to import excel to quickly create tool symbols, these are not editable.

Not the answer you’re looking for, but now you know.

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Great question @johnseidenberggmail-com thanks for joining the group.

I don’t know that I have a perfect answer, but here are some ideas.

I’ve used Spaces in the past to assign markups to a level or area of a plan, this would work if you grouped all your markups on one level and imported them onto all the other level sheets. But, I know this isn’t your goal. You would have to update each level markup if there were chances.

Another thing I’ve done is create a custom column in the markups list called “# Thus” so I can enter how many of the same assembly there are. Then create a custom column to build a formula for your “totals * # Thus” to get the grant total. Again, not the answer you’re looking for.

sorry for the late response, I hope these idea inspire some ideas. keep us posted.

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The folder path has to stay the same for the link to work. If you move the document, you also have to move the linked file with it so the relationship remains. I hope this helps.

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YES! Happy Father’s day gentlemen. Hope you had a great weekend. We spent the weekend in northern Minnesota and actually had a black bear walk past our camp down the dirt road. Always fun to see wildlife.

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I haven’t seen anything yet. I think it was coming out this week. I should probably start thinking about mine also. 😂

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Turns out I didn’t save my tool after I created it. 🤣 I need to recreate it and will share it.

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I’m not sure of a way to update a large number of hyperlinks, or if there is a script possibility. Would be pretty cool.

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@Vince I wonder if creating a Layer Configuration would help. Before you insert new sheets, save the layer configuration, then, fingers crossed, you can apply the configuration to the new sheets after. Just thinking, I don’t have drawings to test.

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Formulas were my first response, you need a custom column for the cut spacing, then another one to divide height by spacing plus width divided by spacing. This works great for square slabs, however now that you say slabs are rarely square this wouldn’t work because the width and height of the markup isn’t an accurate value when not square with the sheet. I’ve built very similar custom columns to calculate rebar, but it has it’s limitations.