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Snapshot tool 100% of the time. Because it only takes the linework with a transparent background, it works great for creating custom markup tools from existing drawing content. Great post David!

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Are you combining several sheets into a combined document, or are you taking screenshots of several plans and pasting them into one large plan? Also, are you losing layers you have in markups or layers that came over from the CAD software?

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You can work on the same document in a studio session off line. It will hold your markups in the pending folder until you’re back in line. Once on line all your markups will publish with the correct time stamp of when it was placed.

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” but getting too late now.” 🤣

One key is a reason for sure, but it’s more customizing Revu to react to my muscle memory habits.

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I think with my basic cheap mouse I don’t get a consistent double-click action, so it doesn’t work half the time. I do like and prefer that method however.

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One more thought, your concern about layers turned off not exporting….

If I remember correctly you are exporting your markups list to a CSV file. Turning off the layers is simply a visual thing on the drawings, the markups still exist in the markups list and will be exported. A person can change the export settings to NOT include certain layers, but you wouldn’t do that.

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My concern with having several copies of the same drawing is when a revision comes in and I have to update all of them. With that said, if you have a very small team and a system that works, keep at it!

For the future, if you want all the markups from all those sheets on one, you can go to the Markups List menu and select Import Markups, then select all 6 sheets and they will import all at once in the correct place.

Thanks for the response David!

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I created the links and exported them, they all come up as broken.

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Andrew, I’m also curious if you are getting quantities for rebar along with the concrete with these tools? I recently built some tools to do this, but I’m curious if you have done the same.

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This is great Andrew. I love layers also and just in writing this article exploring the child layer functionality. I imagined a layout similar to what you show, but your image really drives home the idea.

My thought for importing the layers was to have a “standards” document pinned for quick reference. Then copy/paste the markups representing each layer into the document… This will bring over the layers and you can delete the markups. This however does not bring with it the Layer Configurations like I was hoping.

Mind if I Steal your method and credit you on my blog post?

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This was extremely helpful. It also solves a problem for an existing customer workflow. Thank you Andrew.

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That’s a good one Vince. I’m asked all the time how to remove layers, but you’re the first with a workflow where you are trying to figure out how to keep them. 😂

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I will typically build a toolset specifically named “Internal comments” and have all those on a specific layer. Then like you said you can delete them, or export them to a record copy to archive.

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Excellent example Vince!

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Working exclusively in Studio Sessions makes the tools worthless. similar to what you’re saying, I’m thinking of creating a template and possibly running a script to insert it at the beginning of the drawings before they are uploaded. Work in progress. Thanks @doug-mclean