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I’m not sure what you mean by “distance behind curb” in relation to the rise/drop. I’m confident you know how it works, but Rise/drop is intended to measure the vertical (unseen) part of a horizontal markup. I’d be curious to see your tools and how you’re using them. To your question.. I don’t think there’s a way to convert them, the best I can think of is to draw an example of each of your tools on a blank pdf, then draw a Polylength line next to each one. Use the Format Painter to copy the properties from the existing tools to the new polylength lines. select all of them and add the rise/drop, layers, and whatever else needs to be adjusted. Replace the tools in your toolset. I like to keep these “worksheets” to archive the process of creating tools. That way if anything breaks or gets lost I can go back to the original. I hope this helps David, thanks for posting!

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The Status is applied to the individual markups, not the sheet as a whole, so you would need to update each individual markup on each sheet. I hope I’m understanding your question correctly!

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I would try to get all the markups aligned correctly, then use Document Compare or Overlay Pages to know which markups need to be updated. I like using old markups because it’s a direct reflection of scope change justifying the change in your estimate. Also, rather than Paste–In-Place you could import the markups from the old drawing, I’m not sure if it would give different alignment results, but it’s easier and you won’t miss anything in the transfer.

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I’ve seen it where hidden or “no print” text in the CAD file will still send over the metadata. You could try to flatten the document before you do any markups.

I’ve also seen the page number show up twice in the label because there were two layers of text on the CAD file.

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Within a formula, I will add 0.4 to round up, then set the answer to a whole number. This way .2 becomes .6 and rounds up. If you have .8 it will become 1.2 and round down. I hope this makes sense. One thing to also think about is when to round up. I recently built tools that rounded up each length to a quantity of product units. It was important to assume the waste wasn’t used again. With 12′-0″ J-Channel they needed 3 sticks to cover 30′-0″. So we rounded up there instead of rounding the total linear footage and coming up with 30- 6′-0″ scraps to complete the project.

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You could maybe create a blow-up of the area at a larger scale so when you click on the Space it brings you to a larger copy with all your markups. Right-click on the Space in the Spaces panel and select SnapShot, then paste the image onto another page.

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Convert to Arc is a great tool for this, but I have run into the same issue. another issue is you have to remember to draw the lines in the correct order (clockwise I believe) so the arc doesn’t invert. One thing you could try is adjusting the sensitivity on Dynamic Fill to see if you get better results.

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If I understand this correctly you want to add the markups to a cover sheet in Bluebeam so it exports every time? This is a great idea, just add it to the template file so those items are automatically part of every estimate. Small hinges swing big doors!

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This is good @david-cutler my favorite is to show estimators you can undock your Markups List to display on another monitor. This saves a lot of real estate in the drawing area.

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Thank you Michael, I don’t use the Stapler very often and have never used Show/Hide in Word, so I didn’t have an answer. Thanks for post in the Brainery and adding the update.

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I was wondering the same thing.

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Gotcha, yes the Status needs to be loaded into each document. The Status lives in the document, not the Session. #suggestions@bluebeam.com 🤣

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To expand on @andrew-veggian comment, you can update the visual properties to not have a background, meaning you only see it when the radial is clicked. You can then use the markup tools to draw whatever background shape you want. This way you have a custom symbol that gets the radial mark when picked. I hope that makes sense!

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I tried some of that as well, but once you group them it takes on only one overall hyperlink. At the end of the day, I learned when you’re in a Studio Session, tools with Hyperlinks are no longer available to use. Revu places this hatch pattern over the toolset if they contain hyperlinks. In fact, the entire Hyperlink Panel goes dark when in a Session. So that eliminates the functionality for this customer who’s only working in Sessions. Always learning!

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Sounds like a pretty cool workflow, I’d love to see how it works when you’re finished. Sorry I can’t be more help