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If you have the Extreme version you can Batch Rotate the individual documents. Hope that helps.

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I have a monster 17″ HP ZBook laptop which is great for me. Whether I’m presenting or working on the road, it’s nice to have a bigger laptop screen. At the office, I connect to a 27″, I actually couldn’t imagine bigger.

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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 can also right-click on the tab and attach it to the left again. I’ve always known you can stack them, but @andrew-veggian screen share is the first time I’ve seen this beast in the wild. 😂 Makes me want to build a laptop profile and a desktop profile for myself.

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This is a great screen share!

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Never a need to turn in your Brainery card! 😂

I use the Perimeter tool for retaining walls, wall panel returns, and other things that are line-based, but have a Z-plan depth value. If you’re using Quantity Link the value that is transferring to Excel is actually the “Length” value, which should also include length + rise/drop. This was a great post for thinking through how the tool actually works. Thanks for posting David!

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Is the quantity formula pulling the total length? I’m surprised it doesn’t include the rise/drop since that more of a background property entry.

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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!