Offset button in measurement

DTI · 2024-08-06T05:40:40+00:00

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Is it possible to create an offset button (function similar in autocad) to be able to place lines at a distance from a point, for example?

For example: When calculating earthworks for a building, we calculate the soil 5m further than the outer perimeter of the building. Now I manually draw lines at 5m distance from each vertex to determine the area.

Or is this already possible?

Thanks!

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vfrench

Bluebeam doesn't have an offset feature unfortunately.

However, if you want to draw offset guidelines to measure to, there is a way which works with even the most complicated of shapes.

This uses custom line styles. Have a look at this to see how it is done https://youtu.be/e7n9FeKfzpw

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