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I think what happened here is the view was rotated rather than rotating the entire page. I used to use the wrong rotate all the time.

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WooHoo, so excited to have you and your first-class wisdom in the group. I look forward to seeing you more and more as you build your points to earn your Brainery Black Belt! 🤣

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This year was heavily focused on introducing a new product called “Bluebeam Cloud”. There have been some struggles over the years with the iPad functionality and reliability, so they have built a web-based solution for on-site workflows including RFIs, Punch walks (Snagging lists), and submittals. They have a solid start, but they will be the first to tell you they have a ways to go.

I heard amazing feedback from all the presentations in our Brainery group and it was the thrill of my week to meet them all in person. @lizlarsen @Doug McLean @Shanoc @ekbrayley @mechave and others I’m forgetting in my lack of sleep. I even heard @Vince name brought up a couple of times.

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I’m not doing any updates until after XCON!! 🤣

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Yeah, typically things like that are on sort of a coordinate system with a x, y distance from a center point.

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If you built a custom line style starting with a text element, then a dash with nothing after it, what happens? I’m not at my computer, but I’m curious.

I know you have a handle on custom lines @Vince but for others, I try to build unique looking tools by color and line style so I visually identify it. I like to turn off all labels and text. Doesn’t work for everyone.

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Interesting. In a Studio Session, you can only upload PDF’s, but I haven’t tried attaching a different format as you did. I would assume because you’re not checking out or checking in like a Studio Project it wouldn’t save. I’m kind of surprised the attachment even stayed attached. In most situations, I teach students to use Projects for everything and only send documents to a Session if multiple people absolutely have to work at the same time. Even then I only send individual sheets, not a whole set.

I don’t think this helps you, but this is a place to chat through ideas. Thanks for posting @ChrisRiley

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We cannot build dynamic blocks in Revu where the parts would flex based on parameter values. However, depending on the detail level of your drawings, you could have a Wye symbol with a custom column where you would enter the sizes of each connection. You could manually enter them or create a choice and add the available sizes. 535 for a 5″, 3″ 5″

I’m not sure if this is applicable or even makes sense, but wanted to help. Thanks for the questions, I’m interested to see what others offer.

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I’ve noticed that once in a while several of my tools on the Navigation Bar disappear. I need to turn my Navigation bar off and on again. (F4)

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Love this post @lizlarsen lots of info for all of us to learn from each other.

When I deploy custom profiles for a customer, I always recomend a secure folder for everyone to map to for all the same reasons you mention. The caviot to that, is I always recomend an internal user group so progress by one is progress for everyone. This means they don’t loose their personal tools! If the personal tool is a Must Have, add it to My Tools and it won’t be lost. Just as you mension, I build the custom statuses into the profile for distribution. The problem is, the Custom Statuses in the document override the profile, which is really confusing for everyone whether you’re a new user or used it for several years.

How do I fix this problem?

1. I export the Custom Column file from the profile and save to a network location. (Statuses are part of the custom columns)
2. Used my extremely limited scripting skills to create a custom button to import the Custom Column file.
3. Save document.

Hope this thread helps! As I think about all the info packed in, there is a lot of gold here! Thanks again @lizlarsen

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If it’s working correctly, you should only have to update the source files, not each cell. There are plenty of opportunities for failure, so it might not seam as easy.

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Keep us posted, I loved to hear the solution

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I try to listen to the community and report things. Especially when I can recreate the issue and share it with them.

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That’s certainly an option as well @Roye but I get the feeling there would be hundreds of different sizes and materials. I was hoping if they were identified by a pulldown menu of standard sizes Travis would be able to sort the markups list and see the quantity as the sizes are grouped together.

Another option might be to create a markup with text and a symbol, grouped so he could double click each connection and enter a size. This would show up on plan nicely, but not a legend or markup list. So the use would be extremly limited.

But thats why we think out loud in the Brainery!

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I thought about using the highlighter for all my door tools so I could have the door tags automatically loaded into the comments column, but it wouldn’t work on raster drawings, it’s not in a properly labeled column, and I typically use the comments column for special conditions. For my tools, the customer wanted a colored square so it covered the opening and the swing. Great to have you confirm a similar workflow is working for you as well.