[Vince]

I’ve heard early June but that may just be here in the UK.

I know that the integration with Claude has been talked about a lot and appears to be very useful – I’ve tested it on creating things like manhole schedules, etc., I think some of the other tools are going to be the most important for anyone doing take-offs.

Offset, duplicate, etc. all saved me so much time when I was using the Beta version.

[Vince]

I’ve had that here in the UK too Doug – quite funny when the salesman really doesn’t know anything more than the basics.

[Vince]

Maybe something to with the line weights being disabled?

[Vince]

When I get this type of thing I’ll just use a provisional quantity based on tonnes / m3 (I guess that’ll be ton / cubic foot for you?).
Sometimes I’ll try to look at what will be in a lm of a ground beam etc. to provide a degree of backup but don’t go much further than that as the engineers all seem to come up with something different!

[Vince]

Unfortunately, I’m not going t make it Troy.
But I hope everyone has a great time and I look forward to seeing the presentations from you, Doug and the other members in one format or another after the event!

[Vince]

I’ve not come across any issues with 21.9 @DavidCutler but, as Doug has also said, I’m using the Max beta.

[Vince]

I think that the move away from ‘standard’ types to virtually everything being bespoke is a universal thing now.

Here in the UK we have housing developers building large schemes – 100 to 1,000 or more homes on a scheme. 20 years ago, each developer would have a set of standard housetypes (less than 10 I would say) with maybe the odd change to elevation treatments but nothing major.

Today, if I get a package for the brickwork on 100 houses, I could well have to measure them as 70+ different housetypes due to changes like windows in different positions, bays being added to the sides of houses, feature courses being added to the brickwork, etc..

It really is becoming a bit of a pain and to make matters worse, no one really acknowledges that this adds so much time to the tendering process.

[Vince]

I do get a lot of people contacting me and asking if they can have my tools, profiles and spreadsheets – and I mean a lot!

[Vince]

I wouldn’t hold you breath on this one @DavidCutler !

[Vince]

I quite often swap between the two @DavidCutler when I look at room sizes in houses. I use feet and inches when I look at the actual size of the room, the door sizes, etc. but when it comes to measuring things like skirting boards (base boards?), architraves, etc. then I do that in metres.
I guess that’s what comes from doing a Carpentry & Joinery apprenticeship in the late 80’s!

[Vince]

I’m guessing it is to do with changing between the Select and Pan tools as you are moving around a drawing.

[Vince]

Interesting idea @DavidCutler and one I will try to have a look at.
At present, as windows and doors are usually openings which are ‘square’ on the page, most of the time it is quicker to drag the polygon cut-out than it is to copy a cut out and then try to get it in the correct position.
However, that is not to say that if I can get the template idea to work then this might speed things up.

[Vince]

That would be a very good idea.

[Vince]

How are you getting the option to use the wand at the moment – mine does come up occasionally but not really when I want it.

[Vince]

I have the stitching feature available, but I get an error every time that I try to use it.

I also have the wand available – sometimes. When I say sometimes, I mean about 5% of the time which is very odd!