[Vince]

I have a cheap Bluetooth mouse for when I go out on site.

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I ended up going for the Logitech G604 mouse. I’m making use of a lot of the keys but not all of them yet! 😅

As for the keyboard, my old one is still okay so I can wait to sort that out.

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@Doug McLean I can understand why you would do that with what you are measuring. Unfortunately, when I measure brickwork to houses not only can the % of openings vary massively but there are a load of other features that I probably need to pick up too.

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@David Cutler 🤣

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Sorry – have just realised that you guys are probably thinking “lintel, cavity closer, etc – what is he talking about?!”. They are some of the joys of building in brickwork instead of timber frames.

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I think I’ve worked out a way not only to deduct the door but to also add the lintel, cavity closer, etc all at with the same markup!

[Vince]

Tell them to markup the door first and then draw the wall around it – that way they won’t have to remove the door at all. 😁

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Suggestion to Bluebeam for those? 😅

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There’s a floor to @David Cutler .

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@David Cutler I’m supposed to be having a look at a setup for someone soon!

[Vince]

So, do you save all of you documents to projects? If so, and you don’t use sets, how do you go about adding revised drawings, etc.?

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I did start out with an old formula which used Index and was rather ‘epic’ so was quite pleased to find the new formulas.

The problem that I found with the Bookmarks pdf is that it is just one continuous list and therefore several pages long.

As for Sets, I would love to be able to use these, but I won’t go into that as I think everyone has heard me moaning enough about those not working for me! ☹

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The site is 241 houses along with detached garages, binstores, etc..

I don’t need all the files as they send out the drawings & specs for the entire site even though I’m only pricing the Brickwork and Scaffolding in this instance.

There was a second set of drawings sent out for the scaffolding as well!!! But fortunately, I know which additional drawings there are in that package – some standard sections for the temporary works, etc..

But I do need to download all of them before I decide which ones to delete.

I could download the 20 files to my desktop but that involves finding each one first. So, I might have to try downloading the whole lot to another folder with a very short path to it!

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This is where the problems start unfortunately.

The latest Brickwork tender that I’ve just downloaded has 802 drawings in 82 folders. There should actual be another 20 files but when I tried to unzip them, just the addition of “c:\Users\Vinic\Dropbox\” to the beginning made the file names so long that they could not be downloaded!

I can pretty much guarantee that by the construction phase of this contract starts at least 25% of the drawings will be updated.

This is so frustrating as Revu could make things so much easier to manage.