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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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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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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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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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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

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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 🤣