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If you select all the markups and go to the Measurement Panel, toward the bottom you can change the units setting. You might have to select your tools in the toolsets and make this change for each one before placing any more. or just switch it when you’re done.

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Nice, I was so many years in before I found the mirror tool! Grouping just makes it even more powerful

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I don’t think I’ve ever used that feature. In the past, I have created a new shortcut on my computer and pasted the path to my dashboard on a Studio Project. This way it opens Bluebeam, the Project, and the dashboard all in one double-click.

[Troy DeGroot]

2I always have to refer back to the blog post I wrote with the steps.

https://www.bluebeamandburgers.com/bluebeam-blog/best-practices-for-sharing-bluebeam-revu-tools-profiles/

[Troy DeGroot]

Because a Session only allows PDF files we are unable to save the .bex set file. What I typically do is save the Set and all the supporting documents and folders in a Studio Project. Because they are individual pages, it’s easier for multiple users to work on drawings without getting a “Read Only” warning. When that happens, I just right-click the document and add it to a Session, collaborate, and return it to the Project copy. This will check it out of the Project, but allow many users to mark up at the same time. Then Check-In to the Project again. Hope this helps.

[Troy DeGroot]

Hyperlinks, bookmarks, and things are great as well, but at a minimum update the page labels.

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I believe the “My Tools” toolset stays with the individual user, therefore doesn’t transfer when distributed because it already exists on that new machine. I try to keep everything in one Profile as much as possible and break down different workflows, departments, or maybe submittal types into individual “ToolSet” rather than Profiles. This way you only have to manage one profile when updating and deploying. Different teams can turn off the ToolSets they don’t use which is essentially providing Profile with several different appearances. I really hope that makes sense. whew!

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Good find David, I only use the My Tools for things I use all the time and could memorize the number (which when tied to memory, isn’t very many😂) If I remember right, I tested this several years ago to find out you could have more than 100.

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With Spaces, Hyperlinks, and Forms you have to make sure you’re in Edit Mode to even see the grips and adjust them. I forget this every time.
I’m lost as to why the Area Measurement wouldn’t allow editing if the yellow grips are available. Maybe a bug in the document…

[Troy DeGroot]

Is it locked in the properties?

Are the grips when you select the markup Yellow or Grey?

Or maybe if you’re in a Session you’re not able to change other people’s markups.

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That sounds awesome David. It fun to have a vision for how it could work and then see it actually work!

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One thing that is really important when exporting data is to make sure in the Output Setting to turn off the Replies from being exported. That extra line item can really screw things up!

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I’d be interested to learn what others are doing also. I have built out custom columns to get a proper CSV file export, Quantity Link of course works best for some cases. I have also established a workflow where the CSV export was then converted to a TXT file to be imported into estimating software. Millwork has a lot of different specifics to it, I’m interested to see what you’ve created.

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This is a great list, Andrew! I often forget OCR

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@Roro A lot of horizontal construction projects like utilities and roads have a drastically different scale in each direction. Calibrating allows Bluebeam to do the formulas for distance and area based on the two different scales. We used to have to create formulas in custom columns.