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Hi! I've had a few enquiries like this and I've actually been discussing with someone how we might do some proper training videos. Unfortunately, we aren't there yet with how to do this but please stay tuned and hopefully we'll get there soon!

@@vinicsurveying Just watched your other recent video on the brickwork takeoff. The way you have your bluebeam set up is brilliant. A few videos showing how you get to that from scratch would be very helpful. Also a run through of the excel spreadsheets and how you link it to the bluebeam. This would save me hundreds of hours doing drainage takeoffs/ brickwork etc for civil works.

Hi, this is part of a much larger spreadsheet so would need to be broken out. Protecting the spreadsheets is also proving a bit of an issue at the moment. However, I am getting a few enquiries about my spreadsheets and setups at the moment so I am looking at how I can make these available.

@@vinicsurveying Thanks, let me know, if they become available please.

The custom columns are found in the Markup List drop down at the bottom of the screen. After selecting Columns then select Manage Columns after which you should find the custom columns 'menu'. Is it fencing that you're looking at measuring or something else?

Hi - yes, all imported via power query.

You can select one of the Markups then right-click. From the pop-up menu select Resume Count and then you can manually add more instances.

Thanks David! I really enjoyed doing this one.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you like them!

Thanks David! The tools are all set to scales but unfortunately ths doesn't work for counts or the custom line types. However, when I start measuring a job it's quite quick to change the line thicknesses or the scale of a count item as I don't have too many tools to start with.

It's a spreadsheet that I made several years ago now.

Revu is great! I've tried a few diferent products and think that Revu is by far the best. It's easy to customise everythng to suit your specific needs. If you're looking to get a new licence(s) then can I suggest you reach out to the guys at at brightergraphics.com

If you are using Revu 21 then you should have free access to Bluebeam University where you'll find loads of learning courses. Another great place to look is the @UChapter2 website which is run by Troy De Groot - on there you'll not only be able to see what others are doing with Revu, there are courses and you can ask questions as well.

Glad you like this!

I'm really happy that you've found some of my videos of help!

Wow, thanks! Very happy that you like some of the bits on here!

Did you set the scale in the toolbox okay?

No problem!

Glad you like those! I have Custom Profiles for each trade that I look at with various Tool Chests within each profile. For measuring groundworks I actually have four different profiles due to the different tools and custom columns required for each. What training have you done so far?

None, self taught from Bluebeam Tutorials and You Tube. Length lines I use are just basic straight line in different colours. I like how you have projecting course 75mm line, also the 150mm thick cills. This makes it easier to see your mark ups.

What trade are you measuring for?

We are brickwork contractors. I have also watched your video's on take offs on excel spreadsheets, I assume the contain macros to. Impressive work and quick. Well done !

Thanks. I swore for years that marking up hard copies of drawings by hand and then using the spreadsheets was the quickest and best way of doing things. However, I'm now doing everything on Bluebeam and not only am I just as quick but the level of detail output is incredible. It also means that anyone can pick look at one of the drawings and automatically see what has been measured.

Hi @mattlittle2901, I've also done a video on 'Creating a Donought Area' which you can use to create the shapes that you need.

Are the layers totally lost or are they just not showing when you reopen the document? The only thing that I can think of is that your default view has a doesn't show all of the available layers.

Thank you! 😊

Very busy here but all is good thank you.

@@vinicsurveying Good to heard that.

I don't at the moment unfortunately. Which part of it are you interested in?

Is there anyway to get a video on how you created this? or anyway to gain access to this tool? it would be very helpful@@vinicsurveying

Sorry for the late reply but things are rather hectic at the moment - I will try to do a video showing how to make the tool in the next couple of weeks.

Unfortunately, I'm still working on a lot of the things that I am demonstrating. Also, the tools won't work without the Excel spreadsheets which are proving a bit difficult to protect at the moment. Once I get it all figured out I'll look at the best way of putting everything out there.

I'm glad you like these. I've been wayliad a bit recently but hopefully I'll be posting a few more in the near future.

Sorry - none of the tools are available for download at the moment.

They are Custom Columns that are cretaed in the Markup List. When you create them, one option you have is to create list from which the user must choose.

I see, thank you @@vinicsurveying

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks

For the internal walls I'll measure the length on plan the do a quick sketch to scale markup which I then overmark with the internal wall - if there are several walls, they can all be added together in one sketch to scale item. The openings are then deducted in the same way as the external walls. When I infill the opening with the door type I can then automatically create the information for the lintel, cavity closer for party walls, etc..

If this isn't done by someone with CAD then I do have a set up for it, but it does involve entering a lot of levels. Once the areas are exported to Excel then all of the areas are automatically grouped and sorted - how I allocate the measures will depend on the areas and levels involved. I then have details for topsoil strip, min strip if no topsoil, stated formation level if required, depth of finishes along with say 6 existing levels and 6 finished levels. This sounds a lot but most of the details are prepopulated apart from the actual levels.

The Markup Summary is exported to a csv but you don't need to open this - it is just saved. Power Query in Excel is then used to find the csv file and pull all of the information into Excel.

I'll have a look at putting something together when I get a bit of time.

@@vinicsurveying thanks for your kind reply

Glad you liked those. I have looked at possibly selling the spreadsheets but finding a suitable way of protecting them is the issue - I am still working on this. What do you use for doing your brickwork take-offs at the moment? Is it a manual thing with a scale ruler, highlighters, etc. or something digital?

@@vinicsurveying I have developed a spreadsheet of my own which I’ve been using for a few years now, but think there is a few things I could use from yours to further streamline things.

I guess it depends on how much you get out of it as to whether it makes it worthwhile. The amount of time and effort it saves me over a course of a year makes the approx £300 seem quite inexpensive but if you only use the software on an infrequent basis then I understand what you mean.

Power Query is being used to pull in the information from the CSV file then manipulate it. The button is literally just runs a macro which 'refreshes' one of the final query.

Hi. Glad you like the video! I have created both the toolsets and spreadsheets for all my setups. They can take a bit of time but that is nothing compared to the time saved once you can start using them. And most importantly, everything is how you want it to be. Best of luck in your new role!!!

No problem 👍

Thanks Steve!

The offset is created in the custom line style settings. Additional lines can be added in stage from 1 to 10 or from -1 to -10. In Part 3, I show the lines for a 900mm wide path set 100mm away from a house. This was chosen as it is something I frequently come across, but it is also a very fortunate coincidence that it works out perfectly with the spacings available. The first custom style is set with the first line is set at the spacing of 1 and the second at 10. A second style is created with spacings of -1 and -10. You then just get used to which of the line styles you need to use in each location to make sure that you are offset on the correct side of whatever you are marking around. Hope that makes sense!

@@vinicsurveying Got it. Thanks for the reply...👍👍

Hopefully, the update that was released a couple of weeks ago has provided a fix to this issue. If you are interested, we discussed this over at the @UCHAPTER2 website along with many other items - it's free to join if you are looking for all things Revu with members for all over the world.

Hi. I am aware of a couple of glitches in Revu but haven't come across this one before. One thing to try maybe, overlaying in a different order i.e. use the second drawing as the 'base' this time. Let me know how you get on.

I am trying to do overlay between structure plan and plumbing floor plan, each Plan have different sizes, when I have it done it’s showing wrong for me, nothing is align even using the aligns points, What can I do ?

@@LissandraAcosta I'm happy to see if the same happens for me if you want to send me a couple of the drawings.

Do you have a good email to send you the plans?

@@LissandraAcosta try vince@vinicsurveying.co.uk

Thanks Liz!

Where are you based? The support here in the UK acknowledged there was a problem last September and said they were working on a fix. They also sent me a link to reinstall 20.2.70 as that was the last version without an issue. However, going back to that version when I'm upgraded to Revu21 is not a good option. However, I'm also experiencing a couple of major issues with Excel at the moment which are just as frustrating. The first relates to something called data.mashup and happens when you run a particular Power Query setup. The first time you run the query it takes a minute or two but if you run it again it can take up to an hour. The only way to stop this is to close Excel and restart it between each refresh. The latest (and most problematic!) is an issue with the updates they have done which results in some spreadsheets totally crashing Excel as you open them! These can be spreadsheets that have worked for years. Microsoft's temporary fix for now is for me to reset my version of Office to a January 2021 version so I have lost many of the new features that have been released in the meantime!

@@vinicsurveying Thank you so much for your response, it's extremely appreciated. It's really comforting to know that we are not alone living in this nightmare. I don't know a lot of companies who embraced Bluebeam as much as we did, so it's difficult sometimes to gauge if we are just odd occurrences or if what we're experiencing is related to the fact that we pushed the envelope a little too far and the software we bought was just ultimately not at all what what it was sold to be. We are in Canada, QC to be more precise. We bought the 34 licenses through a value added reseller who originally bundled Bluebeam with a "premium" support option of their own, which ultimately ended up having the same effect as paying for polluted air, i.e. just a bunch of unresponsive incompetents with little to no knowledge about anything but how to setup a GUI. Little did we know, this was only the beginning of this ugly rabbit hole. Since most of the team where I work only speaks French, obviously they were rather limited while trying to troubleshoot the various bugs out in order to try to have something as close as an efficient work day as possible, and so that's how I sort of became aware/responsible for finding workarounds to the overwhelming number of issues with Bluebeam since last summer. As far as our experience went, there was practically no support, neither from our VAR nor Bluebeam directly, despite paying not only for a license but also for support, let alone in double. I can't tell whether it's because they don't have enough knowledge of their software, or because they just don't care, but it took 6 months and a lot of screen recordings to show them what exactly was happening. I even sent them all the custom tools I created, the main enterprise profile, and a couple of .pdf takeoffs as well with long emails filled with extremely precise explanations. It took almost 6 months for them to understand that the layers were not functioning properly. They finally recognized that there was a serious issue and the solution they proposed was to roll back to 20.2.70 and also they invited me to test early evaluation releases to see if we could eventually deploy a new version securely without jeopardizing all of our work because they don't do theirs properly. I might sound like a whiny boy but I have just never ever experienced something that ridiculous in my life. Even with Dassault Systèmes it was not that ugly. I would even have a hard time recommending Bluebeam to anyone even if it was free. That's how low they have fallen in my book. I just don't understand how a company can be so unresponsive and so incompetent at resolving such fundamentally serious bugs such as layers for Bluebeam. It's the absolute first criterium that we use in a PQ over the exported .csv. Talking about Power Query, 95% of all the material takeoff, manufacturing and installation calculations is done through a multitude of queries. I'm not a Microsoft MVP but people like to call me their Excel ninja, and I have a feeling about your query getting clogged and taking a lot of time refreshing on the second even worse on the third and so on. I had a similar issue a few years back and it felt very similar to what you're experiencing right now. Basically when I was refreshing for the first time it was okay but as soon as I was hitting CTRL+ALT+F5 the second time it was taking double the time to complete. I found out that the table with the results from the query was aggregating the results from itself because the query was programmed at folder level instead of table level, so each time I was refreshing it was aggregating the last results and so it was getting bigger and bigger. Since I was on Azure cloud it was taking an eternity to complete, and one time I had something like a query with 20K lines and it occurred to me that there was something wrong because it was taking 10 minutes, then 20 , then 40 minutes... to complete something with like 8-10 queries in one file. I know a few people who had the same issue and this was the culprit so I thought it would help. Anyway thank you very much again for your response it's honestly super appreciated. I hope Bluebeam refocus on improving their software instead of their sales. There is a very impressive potential in this software, I can still see it despite all the rage I have against them for being shabby lazy incompetents. Sadly right now this great potential is overshadowed by all the naughty bugs that we are experiencing, but let's hope they will do the right thing and put the proper energy at the proper place. Reliability will always be king, but these companies are sadly getting more and more into smoke and mirrors to sell their snake oil, forgetting/ignoring the most important and most fundamental thing in the sake of money. Imagine having the most beautiful/powerful car in the world with all the bells and whistles but it never starts, how much would it be worth? How much would it make you feel like a fucking looser?

@@_symmetry_ It sounds like your reseller was absolutely useless which is totally unacceptable especially when they are charging you! My reseller here in the UK has been great - if they can't help then they try to get hold of someone at Bluebeam to who can. And there isn't any sort of maintenance fee from them either. If you are still using Bluebeam, then it might be worth you looking at their UA-cam channel as they are posting loads of short videos at present - Brighter Graphics at @bluebeammeup With regards Excel, I can see what you are saying about your experience but I think my sheet is just a bit too complicated - it is the drainage one that I have posted an example of on here. Basically, it brings in the info from a Bluebeam generated CSV then merges and appends that data to a number of other tables that are already in the spreadsheet. I probably need to look at rewriting everything as I've learned quite a bit since writing it but finding the time is difficult.

Have a look at this one ua-cam.com/video/wVf7SBejxiY/v-deo.html

Hi Tim. On the Line Styles box the first item in the drop-down list is 'Manage'. You need to select that and from there you can start adding your own styles. The same applies to the hatch patterns.

Hi Steve. The spreadsheet is one of mine. It relies on power query which involves an awful lot of merging and appending of tables as well as quite a few formulas. It takes up a lot of processing power and sometimes I have to restart Excel. It still beats having to enter everything into a spreadsheet manually though!

Hi. Once you have got your custom tools in a tool chest then you can start looking at the properties - as well as changing colours, etc you can also add additional information via custom columns, line styles, hatching, etc..

I don't think there are too many changes in Revu 21 - it is mainly the introduction of Bluebeam Cloud and the ability to easily swap your Revu licence between different computers which are the main features I think. With regards the rendering, on my computer this has got a lot better since they started using the computers graphics card although I'm really not sure how that all works. The possibilities for the measuring tools seem pretty endless to me at the moment but I still wish they'd add a link to Excel which lets you use the full Markup list.

Apparently, you need to go back to version 20.2.70 not 20.2.80 as that still has glitches too.