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Counting and quantity takeoffs - Bluebeam Tutorial
From the course: Learning Bluebeam 2017
Counting and quantity takeoffs
- As we've progressed through this course, we've seen how to use the search feature to find all of the instances of a particular detail. Now let's take a look at how to put that ability to work to perform quantity takeoffs. Now before I start, I do want to make sure that if I'm performing quantity takeoffs, I'm adding all of these markups to their own takeoff layer. So, if I don't already have one, I want to go back up here to the left side of the screen and click on the Layers tab, and choose to add a new layer, and I want to create a layer called "Take Offs". Now, I also want to right-click on that, and select Markup Layer, so that everything I do from this point forward will be assigned to that takeoff layer, and then I can manipulate those as a group later. So, I select OK, and on the screen I have my HVAC plan, and I need to start performing quantity takeoffs on all of the fixtures like the air returns and the air ducts. So let's use the Visual Search function to find all of the…
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