- [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 tool
and click on the mark-up that you just added
or none of your attributes will be applied.
So, now that we've got it selected
we can go ahead and add that shading
and again just helps us see that we've taken off this area.
And we can also change the label if we need to.
We're going to leave this alone because this is the garage.
But let's zoom out.
And use the area tool one more time by clicking on ruler
and area and in this case instead of dragging a rectangle
or a square I've got an irregular shape here
so I'm going to go ahead and just click once on each corner.
To measure the square footage of the floor in my house,
when I get to the last corner
I'm going to double click, it's going to close.
And if you zoom in you see
now I've measured 1390 square feet,
but it's not the garage anymore.
So, let's use the select tool
and click on that markup, use the gear tool
and I want to go ahead and change this.
We're going to call the subject,
Concrete and we're going to call the label, House.
So, you see we've changed the label to House
and I want to go ahead and shade that again
so I know I've taken off this area.
Let's zoom out and again you start to see how easy it is
to do quantity takeoffs on this drawing.
Now, it's nice that it puts the area on the drawing for us,
but I'm going to close this properties pane on the right side
of the page and open this tab at the bottom of the page.
And what this is, is Bluebeam's markup summary.
So, instead of having to look up the square footage
that I've measured on the drawing itself
it keeps track of it down here
so I can see that my garage
is 96 square or is 575 square feet.
My house is 1390 square feet.
It also automatically calculates
things like wall area and volume.
So, if I'm doing things like instead
of taking off the concrete floor here
in my garage or my house,
if I'm trying to find out
how much drywall I have in this garage,
and I know the height of the wall, I can enter that here
and it will give me wall area and then room volume.
So, all-in-one tool.
Really quick way to do takeoffs on these drawings.
Let's look at one last type of quantity takeoff
that we can do very quickly here in Bluebeam.
Let's open up our navigation pane
on the left side of the page and go to bookmarks.
And for this example, I want to scroll down.
I want to find an electrical drawing.
Let's use the first floor plan power.
Let's close this so we can see things a little bit better.
And what I want to do is zoom in.
Let's say I'm the electrical contractor
and I need to count all of the outlets
that I have here in the house.
This is the symbol for the outlets
and it's really kind of a pain
to go through and count all these
and remember which ones I've counted
but since I've got digital drawings,
I've got a really quick way to do that.
I'm going to open this pane
and use what Bluebeam calls it's visual search.
So, click on the binoculars,
click on the visual and get rectangle.
I can now just draw a rectangle around one of the outlets
and tell it to find everything that looks like that.
So, when I click on search,
it's now looking for all
of the symbols on this current page.
You can see the progress down here.
We'll give it just a minute to count everything.
It says it's found 72 outlets and counted those for us.
So, that's great.
But let's go ahead and make sure
that we know what got counted and what didn't.
We'll go back up here to the top
and say I want to check all of those.
And I want to click here and apply a count measurement
to everything that I checked
and I just want that count measurement to be a check mark.
So, you see that when I did that,
let's get this out of the way,
it added a check mark on top
of every single electrical outlet that it found
and if I close that pane and open my markup list,
you'll see that it added it to the mark-up list.
It says it found 76 of these.
Let's go ahead and highlight that, go to our properties tab,
subject now is
electrical and these are outlets.
You'll see it changes that down here in our markup list.
And the reason that I want to keep track of what it is
that I'm counting and what it is that I'm taking off
is when I'm all done and I've found everything
that I need to find on my drawings I can click on summary
and I can export all of this as a CVS file
which in our case we'll go ahead
and export all of the markups we did.
And we'll save this Excel file to the desktop
by clicking on save and immediately it exports everything
that we just did and everything
that was in the markup list now opens up in Excel.
I have the items that I've done the quantity takeoffs for.
I have lengths, counts, areas.
Whatever quantity it is that I need in order
to then start doing some pricing on this project.
Let's minimize that.
Go back and take a look at our drawings.
So, that's just one more way, one more example
of how you can use digital drawings
to simplify the work that you have to do in construction.
In this case quantity takeoffs and estimates.