Working with Spaces

Spaces are designed to enable more efficient punch list and back check operations. Set up your drawing with spaces before punching and you'll find it easier to find, sort, and report your punch markups.

Spaces allow you to designate named parts of drawings on an invisible layer. Any markups placed inside a Space can be organized based on the Space they are in.

For example, suppose you have a multiple page drawing where each page represents a floor of a building, and each floor contains many rooms. You can designate a space called "Floor 1" which encompasses the entire first floor, and inside Floor 1 you can define many individual spaces corresponding to the rooms called "Room 1," "Room 2," and so on. After your punch process is complete, the spaces will allow you to easily find and organize all the markups in a particular room or on a particular floor.

  1. On the Spaces panel, click   Add Space.
  2. Click and drag a rectangle to define the space. The Add Space dialog box appears.
  3. Enter a name for the space and click OK.
  1. On the Spaces panel, click   Add Space.
  2. Click once on a corner of the space.
  3. Click again on each successive corner until the outline is complete.
  4. Click the starting point or press ENTER to finish defining the space. The Add Space dialog box appears.
  5. Enter a name for the space and click OK.
  1. Add a rectangular or irregularly shaped space as described above.
  2. Select the space from the list of spaces on the Spaces panel. The space will automatically go into Edit Spaces mode.
  3. Right-click the control point that is at or closest to the apex of the desired curve and select   Convert Control Point to Curve.
  4. Click and drag the handles to change the shape of the curve as desired.

Spaces can be nested, but they cannot partially overlap (in other words, the borders of a Space may not touch the border of another Space). Any Space that is contained within another Space will automatically be nested inside it. Existing Spaces can be moved inside other Spaces to nest them.

Spaces can be visible or hidden. You'll want spaces visible while you're setting them up, but afterwards you may want to hide them while still tracking which space various markups are placed in. To do this, toggle Highlight mode off.

On the Spaces panel, click Highlight to toggle visibility on or off. Additionally, when in Edit Spaces mode, Spaces are automatically visible.

Once a Space is placed on the document, it appears in the Spaces panel under the label of the page it is on. From here, you can edit, move, or delete the space.

To alter a Space's shape:

  1. Select the Space by doing either of the following:
    • Click the name of the Space in the Spaces panel.
    • Click Edit Spaces on the Spaces panel, then click the desired Space in the workspace.
  2. To reshape the Space, click and drag any of the control points.
  3. To add a control point, right-click along a line segment where the control point should be placed and select Add.
  4. To remove a control point, right-click it and select Subtract.
  5. To convert an angle to a curve, right-click the control point that is at or closest to the apex of the desired curve and select   Convert Control Point to Curve, then click and drag the handles to change the shape of the curve as desired.
  6. To move a Shape, click and drag any part of the Shape that is not a control point and release once it is in the desired location.
    • If the Space is partially overlapping another space when you release it, it will not move. Instead, it will snap back to its original position.
    • If the Space is entirely inside another space when you release it, it will be automatically nested within that Space.

  1. Select the Space by doing either of the following:

    • Click the name of the Space in the Spaces panel.
      • Hold down CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.
    • Click Edit Spaces on the Spaces panel, then click the desired Space in the workspace.
      • Hold down SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.

  2. Right-click the Space on the drawing and select Space Properties. The Space Properties dialog box appears.

  3. Make the desired changes to the Name, Color, or Opacity.
  4. Click OK.

One or more spaces can be cut, copied and pasted to another place in the PDF or to another PDF. Be aware that cutting or copying a Space will also affect its nested Spaces.

To cut, copy and paste Spaces:

  1. Select the Space by doing either of the following:

    • Click the name of the Space in the Spaces panel.
      • Hold down CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.
    • Click Edit Spaces on the Spaces panel, then click the desired Space in the workspace.
      • Hold down SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.

  2. There are two ways to cut or copy a Space:
    • Press CTRL+C (copy) or CTRL+X (cut).
    • Right-click the Space (either on the drawing or on the Spaces panel) and select Copy or Cut.
  3. Navigate to where you would like to paste the cut or copied Space. When pasting a Space, Revu will automatically place its lower-leftmost control point at the position of your cursor, unless doing so would cause the Space to overlap another Space, in which case it will find the nearest available location that does not overlap another Space.
    • A Space cannot be pasted inside another Space. To nest a cut or copied Space inside another Space, paste it near the desired Space and move it inside manually.
  4. There are two ways to paste a Space:
    • Press CTRL+V.
    • Right-click where you'd like to place the Space and select Paste.

  1. Select the Space by doing either of the following:

    • Click the name of the Space in the Spaces panel.
      • Hold down CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.
    • Click Edit Spaces on the Spaces panel, then click the desired Space in the workspace.
      • Hold down SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.

  2. There are three ways to delete a Space:
    • Press DELETE
    • Right-click the Space and select Delete.

Spaces can be used to create Area markups to minimize the amount of outlining required for a job when both Takeoffs and Spaces are required. An Area markup created from a Space will automatically be placed directly over the Space, but once created, it is separate from the Space and, for example, can be moved independently of the Space or have different Properties.

To create an Area markup from a Space:

  1. Select the Space by doing either of the following:

    • Click the name of the Space in the Spaces panel.
      • Hold down CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.
    • Click Edit Spaces on the Spaces panel, then click the desired Space in the workspace.
      • Hold down SHIFT to select multiple Spaces.

  2. There are two ways to create an Area markup from a Space:
    • Right-click the name of the Space in the Spaces panel and select Create Area Markup.
    • Right-click the Space in the workspace and select Create Area Markup.

In many cases spaces will be drawn onto large, sprawling pages. It can be difficult to fit all the punch symbols needed on a space at that scale. Typically this is remedied by taking a snapshot of the area and pasting it onto a separate page (often a punch template page). Spaces provide a fast and easy way to accomplish this.

  • In the Spaces panel, right-click the name of a space, then click   Snapshot.

Navigate to another page, paste the snapshot, then click and drag to resize it. Now you can fit your punch symbols. And, when you use spaces to generate snapshots, the pasted snapshot retains its space definition and space name. This means that, when organizing markups by space, symbols placed in the same space will show up together even if they are on different pages.

To determine whether or not the markups in the space are included in the snapshot, see Markup Preferences.

In addition to being able to create a hyperlink to a Space from the Action dialog box, you can create a hyperlink to a Space from the Spaces panel. This method allows you to quickly create a hyperlink to a Space within the same document. This method cannot be used to create a hyperlink to a Space within a different document, however. To do that, create a Hyperlink normally and define it as to the desired Space.

To create a Hyperlink to a Space from the Spaces panel:

  1. Open the desired PDF.
  2. On the Spaces panel, hover the mouse over the Space to which you wish to create a hyperlink. The hyperlink icon appears to the right of the Space's name.
  3. Click the hyperlink icon for the desired Space. The cursor changes to crosshairs.
  4. Click and drag to define the hyperlinked area.

The Markups list contains a column called Space. To view this column in your Markups list, go to Markups List > Columns > Space on the Markups list toolbar (if it is not shown in the list, choose Manage Columns instead to enable it). Once visible, click the column heading to sort the Markups list by Space or click Filter on the Markups list toolbar, then click the icon to the right of the Space column heading to choose to see markups only in certain spaces.

For more on using the Markups list, see Markups List.

Space names will automatically appear in PDF Summaries, making it easier to identify from the summary page where a markup is .

See Markup Summary for more information about summaries.

Related topics

Spaces Panel

Markups List

Markup Summary

Dynamic Fill