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Nathan Bartlett

28d 5h

Split view

Under Review

Do you have any plans to create a split view similar to Bluebeam? Being able to view multiple pages on the same takeoff screen is one of Bluebeam's coolest features. I often times need (or at least I really like) to be able to see my plan view, wall section, detail, and elevation all at the same time. In Bluebeam, I can do takeoffs on any of the view windows without having to stop or start the takeoff tool -- pretty cool. Between my two large monitors, I typically have 8 different view windows going at one time, and it really helps me wrap my head around complex sets of plans.

I know that I can have zzTakeoff open in multiple browser tabs/windows and arrange them how i'd like on my screen. However, having the browser toolbars/address bar/tab space stacked on top of zzTakeoff toolbars in each window takes a MAJOR slice out of my overall screen real-estate, and requires me to restart tools every time I go from one window to the next.

As a commercial subcontractor, we have to get into the nitty gritty of all the details. Having the ability to keep my plan workspace efficient by having multiple plan sections easily visible and usable is very valuable.

David Quinn 28d 4h

You can right click on any page on the left, and select "Preview Window". That will accomplish the same thing, and I use it all the time.

Nathan Bartlett 28d 4h

Are you able to markup or perform takeoff on those preview windows?

David Quinn 28d 4h

Hmm, no, just view. I suppose you could duplicate your browser window and just have two sessions open. Both would accept markup. But it wouldn't be like Bluebeam does.

Bryan Kellenberger 28d 3h

Nathan,

You also can right click on any page and "open in New tab" this opens a new browser, this will let you markup/TO on each like you want, works great.

Jes 27d 9h

If you're in Chrome you can use Chrome's built in feature for this by right clicking on the tab:

Eliseo Arellano 27d 6h

I support this request. It really does save time.

Nathan Bartlett 14d 11h

zz team -- any thoughts on whether this is something you're planning to explore/review?

Kevin 14d 8h

Not a perfect solution, but if you make ZZ a web-app, it helps reduce the real-estate the bars take up, in the interim. Unless you already do this, then the only thing I can think is there may be a way (browser depending) to remove the address bar per window?

As standard browser window

As Web-App

This is with Firefox as a browser, but I believe most other modern ones (Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, etc) can do it as well.

Hope this is helpful!

Lorin Allred zzTakeoff14d 8h

Hey Nathan, the currently supported approach is to use the browser split (like Jes suggested) or open multiple windows and resize the tabs to fit (like Kevin suggested). We may change this in the future, but there are no plans to build a split view yet.

Nathan Bartlett 14d 8h

Thanks, Lorin. Just wondered what the status was.

Kevin -- yes that is the best approach i have found as well -- thank you! Doesn't check all the boxes, but it is certainly a decent option.

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