Is there a way to Convert Counts to Markups?

DanielCraneSon

I've been trying to find a way to translate Counts to markups. I suggested it as an Idea in the Community, but has either gotten ignored or assumingly there may be already a way to do this. To get a better understanding on why I'm trying to chase the following:

I work as a Project Engineering for an Electrical Subcontractor. We have a Bidding department that specifically uses the Counts tool in Revu Bluebeam to quickly and easily count Several different devices, gear, floor boxes.. Pretty much any electrical component is marked. Then, that is kind of where the road ends for counts. We (as Project Engineers) do not really use those counts anymore. We will use custom Markups and essentially create a detailed Matrix for all of those devices with Markups. We have a toolbox full of Markups for Various box sizes, KO's, Whips etc.. We then convert (our Project Engineering Markups) to CVC Excel, measure the amount of material, and then give details to our Prefab and Procurement departments.

Hopefully, that makes sense and why I am asking on how to do this. Unfortunately, this is quite frustrating to us when you have to essentially do this process twice. There is not really any other way to use the Counts tool except for a Legend. I have experimented with the API and Scripting into this with the Revu Bluebeam Complete version. However, after creating what I could, there was not a specific way to do this. A Java script is pretty much a layer/sheet of coding done on top of a Revu Bluebeam document- Where as I believe a request like this would need to be done more internally into Revu it's self. Hopefully I am incorrect on this and I can get an answer here.

Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Glynis D.

@DanielCraneSon While there is not a way to find and replace a count symbol in Revu there are some other techniques that may help accomplish a similar outcome.

1. Converting a tool to a count:

To do this in your tool box where you have for example your GJ1 tool you can right click on that tool and click create count.

Then you will have a count tool with that symbol.

2. Using the measurement column to count markups with the same subject:

Alternatively, as long as the tool is not a measurement tool, you can place your tools as normal. If they have a distinct subject and you sort by subject, the markups list will total all the markups of the same type as long as you have the measurement column turned on. It default to counts.

3. Splitting all markups.

Finally you also have the ability to split counts once you have created them. So if you use the symbol as your count tool and then wanted to separate them into individual markups after the fact you can do so by right clicking on the count and selected split all.

Would any of these techniques resolve your issue?