Q & AAdding addenda to your project
Hi, am i doing something wrong with ZZ?
We work in the commercial sector and we get a lot of addenda with pages ranging from 1-2 pages to 3-500 pages depending on many factors. Our drawing sets are typically 75-100 pages of architectural. When Addenda come in with other software's we use... they load up in file folders such as add#1, add#2 and so forth depending on how we named the folders. I have tried a few different things with ZZ and so far I have not been able to find a way to load addenda the way i want to see them... Which is in folders with their appropriate file name.
Lets say I navigate to ZZ find the project and click on the plus symbol at the top. We have options for add pages, add blank, from clipboard and new folder. When I click add pages the addenda drawings get mixed in with the rest of the drawings Or I can have them continue with new pages from the bottom of the page list and add more pages with new titles. I see some options about revision plan sets but honestly tracking addenda that way doesn't work for me. I need to see all the pages of the addenda since there are Q&A or other architect notes that appear on letterhead which give additional instructions. I don't know about anyone else... but I like to read my addenda like a book... in order. I don't need ZZ to deconstruct the PDF assembly as I have received it. I can do that myself later if I need to.
The biggest thing is... I don't understand why there is no option to load in my addenda into a target a folder titled addendum 1 and so forth for subsequent addenda. So far what i am seeing is I have to create a folder, title it as needed, download the addenda, and highlight 500 pages and drag it into the folder. Seems like this could be simplified by allowing us to target a folder to post the addenda into?
What am i missing here?
Hey Beau, right now, if you drag a folder that contains PDFs into zzTakeoff instead of selecting specific PDFs, we keep the folder structure (though we split the PDF into pages). For now, you could create a folder with the PDF in it, name it the addendum name, and drag the folder into the upload section. Once you finish uploading, those pages should be grouped in the folder.
Separately, you could submit a feature request to add an option to automatically group PDFs into their own folder, if that's what you're after.
Dragging a folder in works... I never tried that before. I typically would drag the PDF's into ZZ.
Problem solved. Thank you sir.