“I got a call from a customer who was bidding on this massive job and he had a PDF file with 56 sheets in it and he wanted to take off quantities,” Deepak said, “especially some certain symbols like electrical fixtures and so on. Once you’ve found all the instances of an object, you can apply an action such as an item count. With the VisualSearch feature, you can search for all instances of a visual cue or object that occurs in a document. “Finding out about it was my ‘aha’ moment with Revu.”
“There are a lot of programs that do searches based on text, but for programs that offer visual search, there are not too many,” Deepak said.
#Autodesk quantity takeoff vs bluebeam update
The quantity and unit price, along with other custom column information, can be easily exported from Revu to Excel and dynamically linked so the values update as the takeoff continues. You can have that displayed as a table on the sheet, which means that you can straight away find out how much it’s going to cost you,” Deepak said. “So as soon as you take off the quantities, it gives you the dollar value of that quantity right there in front of you. This allows a user to associate a markup for a carpet type with the unit price of that carpet and add a dollar value to the takeoff. Users can also instantly know dollar value and price estimates of materials within Revu by setting up Custom Columns in the Markups List. “Once you’ve set up everything, you can then standardize this quantity takeoffs process throughout your team to make sure that everybody’s taking off the quantities using the right tools, which ultimately means you are consistent as a company.” Custom Columns “If you want to measure an area that needs to be carpeted, you need to make sure that you have got a tool that tells you this is carpet type A or carpet type B,” Deepak said. Markups, like colored hatch patterns, and symbols, like lighting fixtures, can be saved as a custom tool set in Revu and even shared with other users. Taking off building quantities can be a repetitive process, and if you have multiple people working on several bid packages at once, having a standard set of tools makes work consistent and efficient among everyone. “When it comes to taking off regions and areas and so on, it’s got some really smart tools that let you snap onto the corner points of the areas and you can really easily take off those quantities,” Deepak added. Revu includes automatic prompts for setting scale and can calibrate a PDF to a single scale or to separate X and Y scales as needed, as well as setting multiple measurement scales on the same PDF using viewports. “Calibration ensures that we use the right scale and we get the right measurements.” “You don’t always know whether those sheets have been printed to the right scale or not,” Deepak said.
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