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Set the scale for the measuring tools

Set the scale for the measuring tools - Bluebeam Tutorial

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Set the scale for the measuring tools

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- [Instructor] Over the next several episodes of Bluebeam Tips and Tricks I'm going to spend time each week bringing you another tip that will help you to use Bluebeam Review as an estimating and takeoff tool. Now when we're talking about estimating and quantity takeoffs on a set of construction drawings you know we're really talking about both counting things and measuring things. If I'm going to measure things the first thing I need to do is set the scale. And you know sometimes in my construction drawings the scale is different as I flip through sheet to sheet. So I want to make sure that I am setting the correct scale on each one of the sheets in my set of drawings. And starting with Bluebeam Review 2019 they gave us an easy way to tell us whether the scales been set in our construction drawings by clicking the thumbnail view. And again starting in 2019 or with the release of Bluebeam Review 2019 it now tells us…

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