Here’s something I end up telling people when they ask about marking up drawings on an
iPad in the field:

Flatten the layers you don’t need before you walk out the door. The file loads faster, your
session syncs cleaner, and you’re not hunting through markup layers that have nothing to
do with what you’re looking at on-site.

Seems obvious…

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What I know of your system Doug, the integration is so fine-tuned, they couldn’t function unless they completely committed to the workflow.

Sometimes it just takes one time-saving feature to blow their mind and convert them. The trouble is figuring out which one will trigger them. When I was a BIM Manager transitioning 70 employees across 7 offices to 3D design, I would print 3D images from my models, and purposely leave them on the printer to hear people talk about them and…

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All three members of my team use the same toolchest.
They’re designed around our Estimating software so its pretty critical that everyone is using the customized tool chests.

At this point 2 of the 3 of us on our estimating team are using the custom tools that I have built. This is working well for the 2 of us that are using them. Still trying to get our head estimator to use them… 😎

Here’s a pattern I keep running into when I talk to companies about their Bluebeam setup:

Someone on the team put real time into building a custom Tool Chest. It’s solid, for them. Organized around how they work.

And then nobody else uses it.

Not because it’s bad. But because it was built around one person’s workflow, not around how the whole…

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I’ll keep you posted @troy-degroot !

I’ve attached a quick preview of what we have created in Sketchup. Goal is to take this into a 3D PDF to share with our extended team and our customer.

I don’t have any experience with SketchUp, but I would love to see what you come up with.

Has anyone generated an IFC file using Trimble Sketchup that you have been able to use to create a 3D PDF? We’ve been modeling a foundation excavation in Sketchup Free, but would need the “Pro” subscription to have the export capability.

Great to have you in the Brainery @maxskewes

If you haven’t already looked, there might be more tools in my free download that you can apply.

Bluebeam Tool Sets

Another option to learn how to build powerful tools is in my Takeoff and Estimating classes. In 201, you will learn to build the tools,…

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Welcome to the Brainery @maxskewes

I’m not familiar with the window toolset (I work on the Civil side of the business), but you might consider making a few tools of your own that give you exactly what you need for your workflow.

The process is really quite simple:

1. Place a count measurement

2. Update your Subject and Label on the Properties…

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The Windows Tool Set provided only shows windows for elevations. Is there a tool set labeled as something else that has windows for floor plans?

Keep us posted if you find the recording. I’d love to see it. As you said, this would be powerful to anyone doing searches for doors, windows, columns, footings, anything really.

Who all was in the USBUG meeting on Tuesday where Peter showed off the new wildcard search function? I’m not sure if this was in 21.9 or 21.10 though. (21.10 is due out in about 2 weeks)

If you weren’t… apparently you can ask Claude to search with the syntax of XXX where XXX is equal to something. Then of course you can do whatever with it.…

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Hey everyone. If you haven’t caught it yet, the recording is out.

Thanks again to @lizlarsen @isaac-harned and @mitchyoungs

Advanced JavaScript in Bluebeam Revu, Real-World Automation for Smarter Workflows (Behind the Build)

Welcome to the group @dbernhardt58, glad you’re here. JavaScript is not my specialty, but I know there are others in the group who are deep into it. Have you seen any of the recent Behind the Build webinars? There were Into and Advanced JavaScript webinars put on by @lizlarsen @Isaac and @mitchyoungs

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I am new to JavaScript, and using it in Bluebeam Complete. Today has been a big day for making progress, but still have a long way to go.

Looking at other JavaScript tutorials and the Bluebeam API; just noticed that “var” is how the API wants us to define variables, while most other tutorials use “let.”

Suggest this be emphasized in the…

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