[Vince]

@Doug it’s always interesting to see someone else use Revu – even if they have only been doing this for five minutes. I guess most of us are self-taught and, unless someone shows us a different way or questions what we are doing, we just carry on in our old ways.

I hadn’t thought or looked at this but fortunately my custom tools are all created using the perimeter tool as I often use the click and drag method for measuring the foundations of houses. Measuring say 200 plots without this would take considerably longer.

I guess the issue with the polylength would be that it needs two distinct ends in order to offer the facility of adding the rise / drop measurements as well.

[Vince]

Hi @robgib0

I’ve given up trying to use sets with UK drawings.

It’s not only the location of the title block that has caused me problems but also the

– drawing titles

– how the revision letter or number is added

I’ve tried about 30 sets of drawings now and reckon that the automatically uploading of details is probably only somewhere between 10-20% accurate at best.

That just leaves entering most of the details manually which really isn’t an option when you are looking at hundreds of drawings.

[Vince]

@mikeceilingsystems-com are you trying to just work out the ’rounded up’ overall area or the actual number of whole tiles?

If you are just wanting to look at the overall area then I think you may be able to use the properties to adjust the document (shape) width and height.

You’ll have to work out the dimensions with them being adjust for the scale of the drawing but this doesn’t appear to be too much of a problem in metric so I guess it will be the same as imperial.

If you are looking at the number of tiles then, I think the discussion that @David Cutler mentioned might help. I’m thinking that there may even be a way to automatically count the number of whole tiles without adjusting the original shape using the Spaces method.

[Vince]

@David Cutler how about naming your parent layer “aaa Takeoff” (or starting any title with “aaa “) and then ensuring that “Sort Layers Alpabetically” is turned on?

Then that way it might not be necessary to drag to the top? 😀

[Vince]

Thanks @David Cutler !

[Vince]

Definitely of equal importance @David Cutler !

With regards the nickname, I think I’ll go with “hyperlink” as you take instantly take us where we need to go! 😀

[Vince]

Are we all allowed to use this now then @Doug??? 😃

[Vince]

Great podcast @David Cutler – well worth a listen!!!

[Vince]

Thanks @lizlarsen ! I think I’m going to play it safe on this one and get the users to ‘import’ just in case anything goes wrong. They can all be emailed if there is a change to the tools, custom columns, etc..

[Vince]

Hi @lizlarsen – one quick question – if the ‘add’ method is used will the root file be updated every time any user saves the profile?

[Vince]

Thanks @lizlarsen – that is really helpful!

[Vince]

Many thanks @troy-degroot !

[Vince]

@David Cutler don’t forget – save your new layer configuration in order so you don’t have to repeat everything the next time you open the drawing.

[Vince]

I’m not sure which is more accurate: –

David ‘Bookmark’ Culter

Or

David ‘Hyperlink’ Cutler

😄

[Vince]

@David Cutler you seem to have a great memory for what has been posted on here!

In which case, can you remember if there has been a feature on saving custom tools, importing them, etc.?

It might be worth rebooting that one to the top of the discussions for members just in case they are finding the same issues as me with the disappearing layer details, etc. on 20.2.85 and Revue 21! ☹