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You can do just about anything in Revu, I have a tattoo to prove it. 🤣

The only reason I still use PowerPoint is that I can point to things with my mouse, we cannot do that in Revu Presentation Mode.

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I’ve always thought the same. By marking all the elements you’re estimating, you now have an installation checklist and items to make notes on damage or installation problems (punch). One of the first things I try to incorporate with customers is how everyone else in the lifecycle of their projects could possibly benefit. How can we build systems for everyone from start to finish so we don’t redo the markups 4x
Great thinking in your millwork case for sure! Now you just need to get your field team on Revu. I know a guy who would love to come out and train them, and maybe have some of those ribs you grilled up and shared on LinkedIn!

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At the top of the Sets Panel, there is a button to Add Files to Set. If I remember correctly, once you navigate to the new files it may ask you to create tags on those new sheets.

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I think the trick is to reverse engineer it. Figure out exactly what the import needs to look like. Then build custom columns in Revu to match both the data and the order of the columns. Some columns can have default values, some will have choice menus. After that, you build your tools as detailed as you want to be using the custom data. for instance, you might have the same tool with different manufacturers, so you make 2 tools with different colors and set the default for the manufacturer (or material type or whatever). Hope this makes sense.

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We will definitely have something when we move to in-person again. A lot of great courses this year!

I’d love to hear from anyone else!

My Sessions Include:

Bluebeam Opening Keynote

Supercharge Government e-Plan Reviews with File Automation and Bluebeam (Teaching)

Design Collaboration with Bluebeam Studio

Tech Talk: All in a Day’s Data – The Collaborative & Secure Journey of Your Project Documents

Generating Accurate Bids Using Bluebeam Revu

Special Event hosted by The B1M

Bluebeam Product Keynote

How to Use Bluebeam to Provide Rapid, Accurate Facility Assessments

Big Data for Big Projects: Using Information for Any Scale of Design

Bluebeam and Autodesk Revit Workflows

The Bluebeam Extreme Awards

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Thanks @David Cutler
I’m working on having so many resources, I need to make sure they’re easy to find!

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I also ran into this yesterday, the Boundary size I can work with most time because you just have to line up one side of the thick line, it doesn’t have to be associated with anything at all. I was running into an issue where the Fill dot was too big. In full disclosure, I was creating tiny social media buttons for my email signature. 😂

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You would have to flatten the markup for that to work. Dynamic Fill is looking for content in the PDF, and the markups are simply overlayed so it doesn’t see them.

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I assume the recordings will be shared as well, there was a great list of courses this year. didn’t seem like anything really basic. Good luck with your course, I know you will be fantastic and I can’t wait to check it out.

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That would be nice in Revu, but highly unlikely based on simple lines and text. Revu would never know how to distinguish what boundaries define a space or not. I wouldn’t put it past them to figure it out though.
I know when you create “Rooms” in Revit, those convert to Spaces when printing to a pdf. (depending on license and settings).

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I’d love to hear more Brett, thanks for being in the group!

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Great questions @david-cutler , Here is my best attempt at answering.

1. There is nothing special about the markups themselves, if everyone is using the same tools which are linked, the quantities should pull through regardless of who placed them.
2. I’m pretty confident we cannot link to a file in a Studio Session so each person would have to essetually have the drawing checked out to do the markups.
3. “Sets” are mearly a xref or viewport of the individual drawings. When you set up your QL you would be linking to those drawings with no regard to the “Set”. So yes QL should work without any issues in parallel with Sets.
4. Yes, when you load the Source File, either load an entire folder or map to all the individual drawings you want linked.

Thanks for clearifying with some great questions. Wait until this weeks more advanced wrap-up of QL. I’ll be dropping some value bombs!

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My IT guy sent me to my marketing guy, who sent me to my graphics designer. After getting the run-around, I just decided to do it myself! 😂

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You might try adjusting the Edge Sensitivity in the Dynamic Fill Properties..

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@vince or @dcutler you could try flattening and then creating a new pdf from that one. maybe then it would be totally flattened.