Spaces Cutout

Adam Myers-Pulles

It would be nice to see a cutout feature for spaces. Similar to the way its done with the area measurement.

Katie Murff

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your post. How would you use that?

Best,
Katie

Adam Myers-Pulles

Katie,

I use spaces when doing estimates for Electrical. For example, I will create a space for an entire parkade level, as well as spaces for individual rooms. When I complete the takeoff, I export to a CSV file and add it to a database that will track $/sf for all these rooms. This gives me the ability to quickly generate budget numbers if needed as well as a good base point for cross checking estimates.

Because I cannot cutout the individual spaces, i have to manipulate the exported names on the CVS file before I can add them to our database.

Katie Murff

This is helpful, Adam. Thanks for sharing the additional detail.

Carina

Could you use Dynamic fill and have it based on your Spaces to do this?

Adam Myers-Pulles

Carina,

I just tried this, but it has the same issue. It won't leave a cutout, as soon as the dynamic fill wraps fully around a cutout, it fills it as well. I do like the Dynamic Fill feature, but the drawings I get from the engineers often are not drawn in a way where the Dynamic Fill feature could be useful.

jimb

I am color coding a set of drawings for scoping purposes, so I am not using measurements. However I can't back out items that are 'islands' within a scope area. Seems like adding an area cutout option would be pretty straightforward.