Plies property is a must.

EWP Studio does this sort of thing. You specify the starting elevation of the base level. Specify your base wall/floor heights for that level. Then you can adjust bottom/top heights or the elevatio...

Another interesting option would be to show the overlays on the pages dropdown when the sidebars are collapsed.

If the overlays are going to continue to be subitems of a plan page, I couldn't agree more. But this is also why I suggested takeoffs on overlays instead of pages. In the current setup, maybe hav...

Don't get me wrong. I love the hotkeys. But whipping my mouse to the right and clicking with reckless abandon would be sorely missed. I am also thinking that an autohiding, full-height bar may w...

Can we make the clickable button a bar the extent of the side of the screen as well?

Any timeline on this feature?

Why does there have to a handle for dragging the edges at all?

Well, it's not exactly FPS...but it's on it's way. ;)Feels good. Thanks guys!

Sounds good. Thanks Heber!

Yay! But no keyboard panning yet?

I am making them with EWP Studio. Would be nice to get more out of all that data!

What if we used layers as visual containers for pages and used "portals" as visual containers for phases?

This has been discussed before as Takeoffs On Overlays Instead of Pages. Also, this is a basic feature of EWP Studio (iStruct) for designing floor systems and such. The model was never tied to a ...

@ Justin Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the Cutting Stock Problem may not be reducible to a simple equation that will work optimally in every scenario. Related to the Knapsack Problem and ultimat...

Maybe pages should be subitems to layers instead...then you wouldn't have two different kinds of folders and you could sort by layer.

How about you share a report...and they can see everything in the takeoffs that is in the report so you don't have to configure both? It could be a layer or a composite of multiple different layers.

These sorts of problems would be easily fixed by switching gears to a negative sections method.

The preference to see sections or not could easily be handled with a setting as PlanSwift does. I'm sorry...I'm just not seeing the utility of the current method.

@ Lorin Ok. I see what you are saying regarding the way that cutouts currently work and how additionally showing the cutouts as sections would give incorrect totals--but that would be an inappropr...

@ Shawn You could easily copy positive sections and negative sections and paste them. What I am asking is why we are using this cutout method and not just using a negative section. And I would wa...

@ Lorin But one could also apply the positive area twice...right? I'm not sure I follow.

No. That is only giving the the total cutout area. I am wondering why the cutouts aren't represented as individual items, i.e. sections.

@ Chaz What you are saying could be done on the pages sidebar/tab. Other RFP documents could also be uploaded and marked up for keeping track of where you are going and what you are doing during QTO.

Before, I had suggested that the markups live on the plan pages and that generally they would be managed via the Plans tab. Then you could see your notes/markups per page...without a huge list of ...