[Vince]

Hi @Roye

Have you tried going to Document then Page Set-Up?

From there it would appear that you can change the media size but I’m not sure if this will change your default properties for the future?

[Vince]

I use it to calculate the surface area of banks to ponds, etc and works really well.

With regards which axis it uses – I don’t think this matters. If you have a 10x5m plan area and then apply a 30 degree slope you should get the same area regardless of which side of the area you lift. Which I guess means they just increase the area using a formula without even considering the shape involved.

[Vince]

@david-cutler I haven’t seen any differences between the two of them but that makes me wonder why would they then bother have the two separate tools?

With regards changing your existing tools, can you use a custom column for the rise / drop?

[Vince]

Thanks @troy-degroot

I have the formulas somewhere for the hips, etc. so will dig those out.

As for manually adding to the labels – I don’t think I have the patience for that!😩

[Vince]

Thanks @troy-degroot .

Unfortunately the hips and valleys will be a a different angle / slope to the main roof area – the rise will be the same though. So I think it is going to be a case of some custom columns to do a few calculations.

The next question is – can you get Bluebeam to display the information from a custom column against a mark-up?

[Vince]

I have been thinking about a template for measuring the different elements of a cut & pitch roof.

I can see how some of the ‘pitch’ feature can be used for calculating the length of standard rafters (from a plan not section) but have you ever looked at whether Bluebeam can provide the lengths of a valley or hip?

[Vince]

@David Cutler I have measured some fairly large balancing ponds which have banks that are varying heights & shapes (a fixed slope angle though) and the measurements come out accurately.

In actual fact, when comparing the areas to those produced by someone else using a CAD based programme, the measures were basically identical.

[Vince]

Thanks Michael.

Unfortunately I know very little (well actually nothing) about this sort of thing so I guess it is going to be something I need to read up on! 😀

[Vince]

I reset mine from Adobe quite a while ago but virtually everyone else that I know still has Adobe as their default viewer even if they have Bluebeam installed.

[Vince]

@David Cutler I totally agree about the civil construction aspect however, I can also confirm that when it comes to structural works (building footprints, etc.) then the perimeter tool can definitely be used to speed things up.

[Vince]

Same here which makes me wonder how most of my tools have been set using “perimeter” instead of “polyline”?

[Vince]

@david-cutler that’s unfortunately what I thought.

The grid display seems to vary as you zoom in & out which is of no use unfortunately.

I did start drawing up a template but thought that I must have been missing something and that a scaled grid is one of those things that Bluebeam would include.

I guess this is another one to add to the requested new features list!

[Vince]

Thanks @troydegroot !

[Vince]

Thanks @David! I was only getting that to work on the areas for some reason??? I don’t suppose you know how you update the tools that you already have saved?

[Vince]

Thanks @David that worked for me. As you say – another great post!