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Be Among the First to Try Bluebeam Max (Powered by Revu 21.8)
Hi Bluebeamers,
We’re excited to share that the Bluebeam Max Beta (Powered by Revu 21.8) is now open for applicants. This is your opportunity to explore new features before they officially launch, share your feedback directly with our Bluebeam team, and help us fine‑tune Bluebeam Max for your everyday workflows.
Here’s what’s included in this release:
- Offset: Easily create precise duplicate markups at defined distances for faster, CAD‑like drawing right inside Revu.
- Markup “Convert and Duplicate As”: Transform or duplicate markups into different types instantly, reducing extra steps and streamlining your processes.
- Stitching: Combine partial viewports from multiple drawings into one seamless document to improve efficiency and drawing alignment.
- Revu Tool Set Syncing: Keep your Tool Sets with you wherever you log in using your BBID—across desktops and, in the future, mobile platforms.
Who can join:
Anyone with an active Core or Complete Revu 21 license can participate. All you need is your Bluebeam ID (BBID). If you don’t have one yet, you can create it here.
Ready to get started?
Join the Bluebeam Max Beta project now
We can’t wait to see what you think and how you’ll shape the next generation of Revu.
– Ryan Arnold
The Bluebeam Beta Team
Your Input Needed: Improving Bluebeam on the Web
Hi everyone! 👋
I’m Alan, a Product Manager here at Bluebeam, working together with Meike, one of our Product Designers. We’re exploring ways to make the Bluebeam web experience faster, smoother, and more useful for you.
We’d love your input!
If you use Bluebeam on the web, or are thinking about it, we want to hear about how it fits into your workflows. What’s working well for you? What gets in the way?
A few areas we’re currently researching (just to get ideas flowing):
- Managing pages (creating, deleting, reordering, etc.)
- Flattening and handling markups
- Performance with large documents
- Connecting or integrating with other web tools
These are just examples — please don’t feel restricted to them. We’re interested in anything that would make the Bluebeam web experience more valuable for you and your team.
Your feedback helps guide where we focus next, so let us know what’s important to you in the comments below.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts,
Alan & Meike – Bluebeam Product Team
Alan A.
Re: 🗓️ March 2026 Challenge - Power Combos!
Snapshot> Change Color> Blend
Many times it's easier to take a snapshot of something else to use as a comment or go-by.
Step 1: Use snapshot (G) to select the goby image
Step 2: Past (Ctrl+V) in desired location
Step 3: Right click on image and selcect Change Colors
Step 4: From Drop down select Colorize and select your source and destination color
Step 5: If required modify Blend Mode to desired result
Example:
Re: Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
Hey all - Harry here, I'm the new PM for Studio and wanted to provide some context and an update.
PM for Studio. First, thank you for continuing to raise this request and for your patience – we know this functionality is hugely valuable to many of you and it’s been a long‑standing need.
Your feedback in this thread (and through support and customer calls) directly helped us prioritize this work internally, and the Studio team does actively review and discuss what’s shared here when we plan our roadmap. I’m planning to be more present in the community going forward so you’re not left guessing where things stand.
On the feature itself: we have started work on making this possible within the constraints of Studio Sessions, and the main challenge has been the technical complexity rather than a lack of desire to create it. I don’t have a firm release date I can share yet, but the work is underway right now and I’ll come back to this thread with a more specific update once we have more clarity
I know this is still more of a “progress update” than a concrete date or details, but I didn’t want to stay silent until everything was locked in. Please keep sharing how you’re using Sessions and why this matters in your workflows – that context really does influence what we build and how we sequence it. Thank you again for pushing on this and for sticking with us!
-Harry Potter (yes, actual name)
Re: ✴️ Feature Highlight: Creating the Perfect Circle
I use it more with polylines. This is a great feature for giving confidence that your circle is an actual circle, that your square is an actual square or that your parallel/perpendicular lines are actually parallel/perpendicular, or that your resized shape held its original dimensions. I have foremen send markups showing their idea of conduit paths, and the ones that use this have clean and easily readable drawings to work with. Those that don't, have spaghetti monsters that make me question my life choices as I try to tell where one line ends and another begins or where they head from a given turn in the path.
List of known limitations
Recently ran into a problem with using the stapler on sharepoint (through onedrive, locally synced files), and when I reached out to support, was told this is a known issue. This is not the first time I have spent hours trying to solve an issue and have recieved that response, however when I ran a search, I found no documentation to back this up. If it is a known issue, we have never been told. Things like this make developing workflows extremely difficult.
Please create a known issues page so that we can know about these issues ahead of time instead of running in circles for hours.
Re: 🗓️ March 2026 Challenge - Power Combos!
We implemented a variety of tools and workflows here that help with day-to-day functions, which effectively this includes the custom profiles, then toolsets based on the task, and custom tools to work in tandem with our existing processes; similar to what was described by @Vince French above, though we delved into automation/scripting too.
Each of our custom profiles feature typical comment-based markup toolsets pinned to the toolbars with custom iconography showing exactly what colour comment tools you're getting:
Unfortunately recent releases of Revu 21 prevented these custom icons from showing, but they're working to have this restored in 21.9!
Also, I would highly recommend testing out the Grouping function for tools as you can get varying results in the output allowing for creative custom tools; for example, you can accomplish a fillable field by ensuring your tools are combined with a text-tool at the front.
Colored Document Tabs
It would be helpful if Revu would allow changing the color of the document tabs. I often work with several files open in engineering field, especially when reviewing markups. The tabs become so small that the document title would be hidden.
I would like to do something like this: Set my initial marked-up documents in a red tab. The revised document is in the green tab. Have general colors for the references.
Thanks,
Revu Stapler - Eliminate the Second Dialog Window
yah so I am never ever ever ever going to save a staple job, so if you can just get rid of that second dialog, that would be great. why i have to click to close that dialog, and then click again to say no i will never save a stapler job?
maybe, the "Create File" button can just do only that, create the file, without opening the second job dialog. but, for weirdos, you can keep the "OK" button to pop up the other dialog to save the stapler job. i can see its use, i just rarely if ever restaple the same sets of docs
sorry if my engish is not too good, i'm too busy closing stapler dialogs to edit this message.
thanks for your consideration!! 💓
Snap Angles
Would be really nice to have 30 deg and 60 deg snap angles added to the 45 and 90 that are standard. Or at least an option to add these two in the snap menu.