PDF Drawing Search Adventure

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Few huge QOL improvements i always use in bluebeam:

1) Search "whole words only". For example right now I'm looking for TREE, but getting so many results for "sTREEts"

2) I want to pick the pages I search, sometimes I have a crap load of drawings and dont need it to search the MEP for example.

Justin Hildreth (Horizontal GC) 3d 0h

I am countering with, I like that it finds everything. Maybe add an option to find the exact match as we have in Excel?

Kyle Bonde - Vertical GC 3d 0h

Fair, I was under the assumption that it would be a check box like bluebeam, so we both win :)

Heber Allred zzTakeoff3d 0h

Thanks for the input guys. I wonder if a "starts with" may be useful as well. We could also support RegEx, which is much more technical but very powerful.

Heber Allred zzTakeoff2d 23h

Maybe something like this? This is on the Test Server if you want to play and see if it does what you're after.

Some Example RegEx (produced by AI so I haven't tested all of them). AI can easily help you generate RegEx for finding advanced text based on patterns:

Kyle Bonde - Vertical GC 2d 22h

@Heber,

Do you just have these features waiting in the closet for someone to ask LOL. That RegEX is a epic tip and shocked what AI can do to help with search, I pasted a screenshot into chat and wow gave me options, check it out LINK

Just learned why we want the "starts with" as well with chatgpt....interesting and useful.

Luke Olson 2d 10h

Yes starts with is helpful.

for example:

heat trace is expensive

if I search heat trace I’ll miss heat tracing so I search for heat trac

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