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🚀📲 New Bluebeam iOS & Android Releases Are Here!
Available now on the App Store and Google Play, we’re proud to announce two of our biggest mobile updates of the year — packed with new features for everyone, including unlicensed users. These updates make it easier than ever to access your files, work offline, and markup on the go.
What's new in Bluebeam Cloud iOS v1.24:
- Edit locally stored PDFs
Open and mark up PDFs saved directly on your device, from other DMS apps, or through the iOS Files app. Files opened from supported storage providers can be saved back to their original location, while others can be exported elsewhere. If you’re working with files from a DMS, be sure they’re downloaded first so you can access and edit them offline in Bluebeam. - Offline Studio Projects
Designate entire Projects, folders, or individual files to be used offline. Items are checked for revisions when you’re online and synced in the background during app launch, reconnect, or overnight. Files you don’t designate are still cached automatically but removed after 90 days to save space. - Pen eraser
Erase parts of individual pen strokes while drawing or editing, giving you more control without needing to start over. - Freehand improvements
Drawing with Apple Pencil or touch is now smoother and more responsive, fixing lag and input delay reported by users.
What's new in Bluebeam Cloud Android v1.12:
- Check out and check in Project files (Licensed Users Only)
You can now check out Studio Project files directly from your Android device. While checked out, you can add, edit, or delete markups. Files can be checked out from any platform, but to keep your changes, make sure you check the file back in from the same platform you used to make edits. - Pen tool
Draw smooth, freehand strokes to sketch, underline, or circle content in your PDFs. Great for quick notes or markups on both Sessions and Projects. - Highlighter tool
Emphasize important text or areas in your documents with translucent, freehand strokes or by selecting text directly. Works in both Sessions and Projects.Both releases also include refreshed app descriptions, metadata, and screenshots in the stores.
And we’re not stopping here. Later this year, you’ll see even more major improvements, including Tool Sets and editor upgrades that will keep making Bluebeam on mobile a powerful tool for every user. Stay tuned — the best is yet to come! 🙌✨
Current Folder As Save Location For Markup List Export
Instead of defaulting to the last folder where a Markup List file was exported to, can we have the option of defaulting to the folder in which the pdf file that you are using is saved.
If I am moving between pdf's which are saved in different folders it is too easy to end up saving the output file in the wrong place.
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HBD BB Community!!!
- 💙 My favorite thing about the Bluebeam Community is: The COMMUNITY factor. This online group has something going for it that others lack - So much lively back and forth, so many great ideas being shared, interaction, feeling, and friends with lots of skills to share.
- 🧠 One thing I've learned from joining the community is: How versatile the Bluebeam interface is - customized to so many different roles and tasks within the AEC industry.
Offset Tool for line and area
It would be useful to have a offset function. for example you may wish to draw an area that is day 2.00m bigger all round. An off set function would allow you to do this.
Re: Advanced Overlay Options
To add to @Shaya Birnbaum clever tips, when you paste the Snapshot, you can use Crtl+Shift+V to paste to the same location on the PDF in view as where it was copied from.
Another tip, G is the shortcut key to SnapShots, Shift+G is the shortcut key to SnapShots without Revu Markups, just the authored PDF content.
Re: Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
This would be helpful to my internal team, too. Our PDFs are essentially living documents with changes tracked in red ("redlines") over several weeks or months, after which those changes are incorporated back into the original source and a new updated PDF is published.
Even if person A updates the equipment and PDF with change A, we often have person B come along with further necessary changes B, and occasionally even have person C with more necessary changes C. It is absolutely helpful to track that final change "C" is an amalgamation of changes from persons A, B, and C, but it is not helpful for latter persons to have to cover up previous updates with e.g. a blank white rectangle.
And when using the "cover up" method, the final reviewer who is incorporating changes back into the original source is forced to wade through conflicting markup history from three different people on the same page. By supporting markup edits, the final reviewer would only have to review a single markup history collaboratively created by three people.
Re: Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
We have the same problem… our lead reviewer consolidates and verify comments from engineers. any conflicting comments or comments that is not needed must be remove. The lead reviewer finalized comments before document controller sends it to the originator. If the review lead cannot remover or delete comments that is not needed it is causing a bottle neck / delay. Please make this happen. The session report should capture any removal deletion of comments so there is a security in place.
Unable to download an older version of Revu 21
On the Bluebeam website, under "Resources" > "Need an older version of Revu?" there is only v20 and older. This needs new options, like v21.6.
Currently the need for this is high, because v21.7 has a highly annoying "new feature" while drawing polylines, areas and contour and area measurement. Something goes visually wrong with the display of the temporary line segments. Installing v21.6 is a quick solution.
Siem
Repeat last tool/markup (similar to AutoCAD™)
"Reuse markup tool" is a nice feature, but it only works only for the markups in the toolbox. not line, text, etc. as those seem to be "reusable" by default.
It would be a nice addition to the "tool belt" to add an option similar to AutoCAD where the last tool that was used, and it was deselected, would be selected again (ACAD default is the space bar). IT could be applicable to same tools as "repeat markup tool".
Re: COUNTS WITH SNAPSHOT
Turn on the option to include markps in your snapshot. Go to Revu > Preferences > Tools > (scroll ALL the way down) Enable the option for "Include Markups in Snapshots".
That should help.
