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A question for the ages in the AEC industry, regarding the abbreviation for UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE or UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED… Do you belong to team UNO, or team UON?
It would be really cool if you could automatically segment the Dimension tool into equal parts. I remember in SketchUp that you can split a line into multiple points and it's very helpful when designing. In Bluebeam, I have a light fixture layout on a plan that needs to be adjusted. I'd like to have 3 lights equally…
Have you ever opened a file and tried to do some annotations and takeoff and it was locked with no permissions for the viewer? Are you unable to even print it to a .pdf or affect any change to it? Boooooo! Me Too. Looking for a workaround? I Found One! Aaaannnd, You're welcome. — If you have a other workaround, please…
In the latest update, the comment boxes seem to pop-up much more often which does not help our workflow. We create toolsets made up of groups of shapes and text boxes. When I try to double-click to edit the text, the pop-up box shows up. In order to edit the text, I now have to ungroup to edit the text. Is there a way to…
Hello, Please see attached. I am doing a rebar takeoff. I have a footing that is not squared. I have used multiply option to multiply my rebar lines spaced equally. however as you can see I have to adjust each line into the footing shape. Can you please create an option that I can trim all lines at the direction i want at…
I use Bluebeam for electrical take-off and occasionally I need to replace the custom count I have in in place with something else. Lets say the duplexes in this area need to become junction boxes, or GFCI type. I'd like to be able to select count measures > Right Click > Replace count measure with > show tool box custom…
When I bring in a screenshot, it is not to scale, and I need to rotate it and resize to try match the pdf content. For example, sometimes I want to take an aerial screenshot and overlay it over my pdf plans. To make sure it aligns I need to scale it correctly, and rotate it correctly. It would be very handy if I could…
We all know and love the ability to automatically create page labels. However there is no way to search for page labels besides adding a markup to the pages and filtering to it in the Markup List. If there was a option in the search section to search for page labels it would increase the efficiency of our searches and make…
I created page labels for my document and want to search for them but when using CTRL+F the page does not show up as seen below. Another solution would be to order/sort the pages by their label, is this possible?
I would like a tool that scans a pdf and spits out an excel containing whatever information I train it to. This would require an AI function that learns because not all drawings are formatted the same.
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What is the best way to track project issues? I have issues that are emailed to me by my contractor customers and need some way to flag it and remember to follow up on it. I am having too many emails fall through the cracks and are not resolved in a timely manner.
When I try to search a set I always get 0 results and the result is instant. It doesn't appear to be actually searching the documents. Am I doing something wrong?
As a contractor several different company's. Often get give a different "Work" email addresses. So when i get added to sessions or project. I often have to get the invitation resent to my personal email. Is there away to attach more then one email to my account. So when i am added via a work email. I can just ad that email…
Is it possible to change the columns shown in the tool chest?
Greetings, I have a question that I can't seem to find the answer. Hopefully I can get some help here. Is it possible to overlay and also compare two PDFs? When we only compare the files, we only see the cloud and sometimes it's not easy to tell what is the difference. If I can also overlay those PDFs, I can see the color…
So, I went through my 165 page PDF and replied to all the comments but using the right click → Reply option. Now, due to limitations with the original creator of the comments, I actually need to have them show as a text box next to the original comment. How do I convert the reply to comments into text boxes next to the…
How do i extract the area of a door or window or oppening from the area of a wall?
I was trying to figure out how to change the text size 1 to size 0.5 and every time I use the font size text box to change the number to 0.50 it'll default the size to 8. Is there a way to change the text size smaller then 1?
I would like to know what is the best method to go through a project and begin to capture info for RFI's?
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