Discover how you can effectively use Bluebeam to carry out different takeoffs for a music room and guest room, starting with simple tasks and gradually progressing to more complex ones. Learn how to measure, count, and fill different architectural elements and get accustomed to regularly saving your work.
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- The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Bluebeam for various takeoffs, starting with straightforward tasks like linears, areas, and counts, before proceeding to more intricate tasks like volumes and automated features.
- You will learn how to deal with different architectural elements, starting from the simpler interior finishes, moving on to the exterior elements, and then progressing to the framing, structure, concrete, and some electrical components.
- As the tutorial progresses, it's emphasized that it's important to save your work at regular intervals to avoid losing any progress made, especially when measurements are being put on plans and adjustments are being made.
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All right, so now that we have gone through our initial overview of Bluebeam, and now we have a really good understanding of our different toolbars, our different drop-down menus, and the different takeoffs that we can use, now let's go ahead and actually start doing some takeoffs of the music room and the guest room. And the way that we're going to structure this is we're just going to start with some of the more simple takeoffs first, and then we're going to build upon that and do some of the more complex work later. So simple in terms of types of takeoffs, so we'll start with easy things like linears and areas and counts, some of the most basic takeoff elements, and then we'll progress further into doing things like volumes and using some of the automated features within Bluebeam for counting as well as for dynamic fill.
And the same is going to go for the scopes of work too. We're going to start on some of the more simple and easy to understand architectural elements, so some of the interior finishes will be a good place for us to start. Then we'll move to some of the simpler exterior elements, and then we'll even get into some of the framing and some of the structure and some of the concrete, as well as a little bit of electrical.
Nothing extremely in-depth, but just enough to give you a strong mastery of all of the different parts and assemblies of the music room and the guest room, and a lot of really good practice with all the different takeoff types that we use commonly in Bluebeam. So just getting started here, let's pick something like wall base for example. We'll get started with that, and then we will move throughout some of the other interior elements.
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One thing to note here before we get going on takeoffs, when this little asterisk exists next to your file set, that means that changes have been made and that you can save it. So let's just get in the habit of saving this every once in a while. Now that we're actually going to start putting measurements on the plans and building on top of them, we want to make sure that we're saving at regular intervals, so if something happens for whatever reason, we don't lose all of that work that we've just done.
