by Alena Wilson | 8 May 2018 | Uncategorized
Adding a staircase to a deck in Sketch can be frustrating if you don’t know which settings to change in the staircase properties. It took me a bit of time to discover all of the correct setting to get the staircase to properly match the deck elevation, but was...
by Alena Wilson | 30 Apr 2018 | Uncategorized
Not many people who use Sketch know how to angle components in relation to a roof or a room. In this video, I show how to line up a gable roof ridge with a hip roof hip in a few easy steps. You can also use this shortcut that I demonstrate to rotate stairs, reference...
by Alena Wilson | 24 Apr 2018 | Uncategorized
Just recently I learned that you can show your ceiling surfaces in Sketch while in the 3d view. For some reason, I had always thought this was not possible and had resorted to using the “C” in the calculator field for the line item. In this video, I show...
by Alena Wilson | 17 Apr 2018 | Uncategorized
When there is damage to the SF of a finished room below a staircase, it can be confusing on where and how to find the dimensions to calculate your line item quantities. In this video, I show how you can add line items directly to the room below the stairs in Sketch. I...
by Alena Wilson | 10 Apr 2018 | Uncategorized
When writing estimates in Xactimate, I like to avoid extra clicks at all costs. I learned that clicking to scroll up and down the Grouping Tree window in the Estimate Items tab was a big time waste, so I wanted a better option. I learned that the Low Resolution view...
by Alena Wilson | 3 Apr 2018 | Uncategorized
The line item note doesn’t only have to be used as an attachment to a line item – I find it very useful to use it on it’s own to create line item breaks or headlines to explain what I’m doing on an estimate. For example, I want the adjuster to...
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