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Use VisualSearch for quantity takeoffs

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Use VisualSearch for quantity takeoffs

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- [Instructor] In previous episodes of Bluebeam tips and tricks, I've shown you how to use Bluebeam's visual search tool, and I've showed you how to create custom counting tools. Now I want to bring those two tips together and show you how to use Bluebeam's visual search tool to count things and apply that custom counting markup to them. Let's take a look. Let's zoom in on our floor plan here into this restroom, and we see the symbol here for a toilet fixture. And if I open up my tool chest, you'll see the toilet counting markup tool that I created in an earlier episode of Bluebeam tips and tricks called creating custom count tools and that's what I want to use, but I don't want to find all of these symbols in my drawings, I want to let the software do it for me by clicking on Search and selecting the visual search tool. Now, this is really handy when there are dozens or even hundreds of different symbols or fixtures that…

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