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Using Bluebeam Revu to do takeoffs, part 2

Using Bluebeam Revu to do takeoffs, part 2

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Using Bluebeam Revu to do takeoffs, part 2

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- [Instructor] Let's continue this a little bit. Let's go to our floor plan. Actually, let's use our foundation plan and let's zoom in since we're taking off concrete, we already started with the driveway. Let's take off some more concrete. And don't forget I just switched from a civil drawing to an architectural drawing. So, a site plan drawing to a building plan drawing. My scale is probably different. So, before I get too carried away measuring everything don't forget to calibrate or reset the scale. In this case we're going to change this to 1/4 of an inch equals one foot. We'll leave the precision set there and I should be set to measure things. So, let's zoom in. We have a little detached garage and we're going to click on area and again just drag this out. It says our garage is 575 square feet. Let's click on the gear icon and shade that a little bit so that we can... Oops! And don't forget to select the…

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