[Vince]

@Doug I’m not 100% sure about this but here goes!

By the looks of it most of your shapes are circles so by using the change in height or the pitch, you can then work out the shape of the ellipse that is created on the angle.

With the two new radii you should be work out the perimeter of the new shape which can then be multiplied by the height.

You can test this with some sketch to scale shapes.

There are also a couple of ways of calculating the length in Excel depending on whether you have the height or pitch.

If you are only completing a wall to part of the perimeter then hopefully it is just a pro-rata calculation that needs doing.

Hopefully this works?????

It’s a bit hard to explain here so I’ve attached a couple of files.

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[Vince]

Hi @robgib0

With some of my custom tools I run into this issue and I’ve found the following adjustment seems to work – if the tool was set with a line width of 3 at 1:50 then it needs to be 1.50 at 1:100 and 0.75 at 1:200.

[Vince]

I’m glad you like that one @David Cutler !

I must admit that I got the idea from using a custom line set up on something else and getting very frustrated about how you had to change the line thickness depending on what scale you were working in.

However, I think that has resulted in something that will be extremely useful – it certainly will to me anyway.

I should have highlighted the fact that if you are working with standard offset dimensions for items such as verges, footpaths (sidewalks?), etc. then you can create these with the correct spacings and then save them to your toolchest.

[Vince]

Is this something for a Gantt chart @Doug in order so you can apply dates and critical paths as well?

[Vince]

Good questions @David Cutler ! My HP laptop is now over 7 years old so I’m think that I’m going to have to buy a new one sooner or later. I’m not sure what will need more power though – Revu or my spreadsheets! 😅

[Vince]

Hi @Roye

I’ve joined in a few sessions which were being hosted in the US but I’ve got an account set up on the US server as well as my UK one.

I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think my UK account will let me join a US session.

[Vince]

I’ll be very interested to see the answers to this.

I would like to use sets for ongoing projects but here in the UK there is a major stumbling block – there is no standard naming convention for drawings.

On housing projects, we get loads of revisions so being able to have the drawings automatically allocated, markups brought forward, latest revisions always at the front of a stack, etc would be a massive help. However, in most cases this would mean ‘renaming’ 100’s of drawings which really isn’t an option.

Maybe if I could demonstrate how useful sets could be then I might just be able to get some of the housebuilders to update their naming practices???

[Vince]

I just about remember having to learn all sorts of calculations when I was at college @Doug – the one that sticks out was working out the surface area of the top of a cone that has been sliced at an angle.

But that was about 30 years ago so the actual details behind everything were forgotten a very long time ago!

One interesting job I remember doing with my dad was a circular oast house roof – for every three rafters in the bottom half there were only two in the top half.

[Vince]

Thanks @Liz

[Vince]

@David Cutler the example of the 900mm path offset works rather well as what you do when creating your line style is create your first line at +1 and the second line at +10.

For a 600mm path it would be +1 and +7.

So hopefully a 2′ wide path offset 4″ from a building would also be +1 and +7.

This of course means there are limits to what you can do in a single tool and sometimes two sets of markups may be necessary.

[Vince]

There’s a box??? 🤣

Thanks @lizlarsen !

[Vince]

I’ve registered with the same details on both.

[Vince]

@David Cutler as well as my Bluebeam and Excel issues, I also spent over an hour on the Dropbox help webchat yesterday as mine just stopped syncing!!!

No news from Microsoft about the Excel fix yet either.

JUst hoping nothing else goes wrong now!

[Vince]

@Bruce_218 it is only me here so there were no plans for deployment – I just tried to upgrade when 21 came out in the hope that it would be working without any issues such as the disappearing layers.

Unfortunately, I did have a bit of a nightmare registering the new version as no one appeared to know how to deal with individuals at that stage. Fortunately, someone who worked for Bluebeam in Canada (I’m in the UK) jumped in via LinkedIn and helped me sort that out.

I think the guys on MCR did a bit about registering new licences and there is also the Brighter Graphics YouTube channel where there are some videos showing you want you need to do. There are loads of other short demonstrations on there too so it is well worth a look.

[Vince]

Yep @David Cutler this glitch is still driving me crazy! It did start in the 20.2.85 update and appears to have been copied into Revu 21.

Bluebeam have been aware for at least 5 months now but there is still no fix insight.