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Re: Legends are slightly less than...legendary?
@JJones I thought there was a way to do this. I played with it a little and couldn't figure it out either. It would be nice to see a solution to this. I feel like it already exists and I'm just missing it. I can only see where you can separate it by page, not area of a page.
Re: Lessons Learned in Training New Users
@bcostlow
it really boils down to the quality of the drawings. (Don't most things we do?)
I've had snaps be off as much as 1/4", depending on the scale and the line weight, etc.
The other thing that may happen is that you'll have more than one line hidden by a thicker line weight.
Do some experiments 🤔
Its also a 'Set it and Forget it" setting. Once its done, it'll apply to all PDF's.
Re: Lessons Learned in Training New Users
Mmm… I definitely see how the hidden lines could be a problem. Ok. That alone is reason enough for me to stick to it. Thanks for the explanation, @Doug McLean I'll do some messing around with it sometime to see if I can create some of those issues for myself in case the question comes up in the lessons I give.
bcostlow
Re: Flip Markup of Chosen Axis
@Nextakeoff you can do this by grouping the items together and then ungrouping after flipping. However, be careful as if you have your markups assigned to differing layers you will lose these and everything will be assigned to just one layer instead.
vfrench
Re: Lessons Learned in Training New Users
@Doug McLean - I certainly trust your experience and will probably use your suggestion simply because it seems like a best practice, but I'm just having a hard time understanding the 'why'. Line weight is about the visual representation of the line, correct? Are you saying that drawing the lines will have a higher level of accuracy because the cursor will be smaller? It may seem like I'm being purposefully difficult here, but I'm genuinely interested.
My understanding is that snapping aligns to exact points based on what snaps are active. I don't see how line weight would affect that in any way at all, other than if I'm using the lines to draw free-hand and want to get as close to the actual line without snapping as possible. Grid spacing can get down to 0.01 units if you want that level of accuracy, and if you turn off the grid, and draw lines with reference to anything that can be snapped to, it should be virtually exact in it's accuracy.
Am I misunderstanding something about this? If you look up what the Enhance Thin Lines and Disable Line weights does it doesn't seem to have any effect on accuracy of measurements or anything like that. They can just make lines look thicker than you'd like for identifying intersections or whatnot from a quick visual inspection.
bcostlow
Re: Feature Highlight: Scale & Calibration
This is one of my most used tools. I struggle with trusting the measurements though, and could greatly benefit from a deep dive on the topic.
When calibrating, is it best to use the largest known dimension as the benchmark?
My thinking is that the longer my line is, the more of the drawing is taken into account when scaling to the subsequent measurements made. For instance, let's assume we have two known lines to choose from, one at 3" representing a 30' wall and one at 7" representing a 70' 2" corridor. The 3" line representing 30' would result in a scale of (1:10). If I use that scale to measure a line that is 7" long, the result is exactly 70'. Now, if I reverse the order and use a 7" line with a known length of 70' 2" the resulting scale is (1:10.06). Using that scale, a 3" line would be 30' 0-3/4".
Obviously this is an exaggeration of what would likely ever be found, but bluebeam actually calculates measurements with a given point at which the measurement would need to be rounded. If you force it to round at smaller intervals you are making it input calculation errors at a greater rate.
Now, if we have two or more known measurement we can compare results to get the most accurate measurements possible, but when there's only one known measurement I'd recommend taking ALL measurements with a great big grain of salt. Honestly, I would just recommend not trusting any measurement where you are left calibrating the drawing. You can, but there is a level of liability taken when doing so.
All that said, I happily use the measurement tools to perform my BIM tasks. It gets me in the ballpark so I can conduct useful coordination with the other MEP trades and is invaluable to my current workflow.
bcostlow
Re: Cropping Snapshots?
Sorry, I should clarify, @bcostlow . I meant to take another snapshot of the pasted image, therefore re-cropping it, then pasting the new snapshot where it is needed. Different cropping would require new snapshots. Also, a blank page could be inserted into the document where this work is occurring.
Re: Feature Highlight: Scale & Calibration
A simple one for me was realising you can add your own custom preset to the calibration dropdown menu!
1:250 is a pretty commonly used one with the drawings i receive.
JJones