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🗓️ September 2024 Challenge – Seal of Approval!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the September 2024 Monthly Challenge! This topic generates many questions, which is why we'd like to talk about it here. This month, we're focusing on how you give your documents the final seal of approval. Whether it's signatures, stamps, watermarks, or images, we want to know how you make your mark.
For those wanting to know more about monthly challenges, please visit this link.
Last month’s challenge ended with some great custom tool sets. Check them out in this link.
🎖️ Rewards
Participants will earn a special badge and points to help you level up in the community ranks.
💬 Create, Share, and Discuss
- Describe or post your seal, explain your process, and offer tips for others.
- If you use a custom signature, stamp, or watermark but are unable to share it directly, feel free to discuss your process and the importance of this final step in your workflow.
- Share how you add your seal of approval, whether it's a signature, stamp, watermark, or image.
- Engage with others by commenting on and upvoting your favorite seals.
🤝 Why Participate?
- Your seal adds authenticity and closure to documents.
- Show how you uniquely sign off, whether with a signature, watermark, or stamp.
- Your approach could inspire others to create their own seals of approval.
We’re excited to see how you complete your documents. Let’s showcase our community’s attention to detail!
For more information on digital signatures and stamps in Bluebeam Revu, check out the links below.
Marco M
Re: Selective Sheet view
Sounds like bookmarks with a tree organization is your best bet. Make bookmarks for Sections A-F with sub-bookmarks for parts A1-A9 (as makes sense for you). Then you can collapse the unused sections to focus on Sections B and F.
Unfortunately, this only really helps if Sections can be subdivided in some logical way. If each section is 20+ pages with no natural breaks then bookmarking each section is less helpful. But maybe it's worth bookmarking each page and making it a sub-bookmark of the main sections.
The example below shows bookmarks for each discipline (Main Sections) with sub-bookmarks for each sheet of that discipline.
✴️ How do you use Capture Media?
How do you utilize the Capture Media tool in Revu?
Are you using it primarily for reviewing plans/drawings, or are there other creative ways you’ve found to make the most of it?
Marco M
Re: 🎉 Special Congratulations July 2024 Leaderboard Winner!
Ah shucks. You guys are awesome. Thank you.
Re: 🗓️ August 2024 Challenge - Custom & Favorite Tool Sets!
A big thank you to all who participated in this August 2024 Challenge and congratulations to those who earned a badge! This challenge is now closed.
We loved seeing the creativity and custom tool sets you shared. Your contributions showcased some of the expertise within our community.
Stay tuned for the September Challenge that will be posted in the Community Hub soon. We can't wait to see what you'll share next!
Marco M
Re: 🗓️ August 2024 Challenge - Custom & Favorite Tool Sets!
These are some great responses!
Marco M
Re: "Go To Page" Shortcut
Thank you both!
I'm glad to see you have it on the docket for Revu 21.4!
I'll still give a bit more detail on how this shortcut would enhance my work flow.
My company handles Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams, documents ranging from 100-200 pages, each labeled PID-XXXX. They all have lines on them that go to other pages, detailing what page in a connector box. When navigating in Adobe, say I am on "PID-1734" and I need to follow a line to "PID-1403".
This would normally be accomplished by moving my mouse to the page navigation bar, clicking into the number of page I am currently on, removing that number ("1734" in this case) and then entering that specific page number.
(In the screenshot below, I would hit backspace or delete after highlighting the current page number, enter the destination and hit enter.)
Using the "Go To Page" shortcut mentioned above, I have an assignment on my keypad that opens "Go To Page", removes the current page number automatically by inputting tab, end, shift+left arrow and a few other inputs. From there all I need to do is type in the number "1403".
The screenshot below is what I see after inputting one keystroke using the "Go To Page" shortcut and a special assignment on my keypad.
Having a shortcut for "Go To Page" enables me to press a single key, type any number, hit enter and navigate to that page. That replaces the traditional way of double clicking in, selecting the current page number, hitting delete to remove the old number, then typing the destination.
It's not a massive time save per search, but across 34+ documents all with 100-200+ pages it adds up with how frequently we jump from page to page. I can also do this without moving my hands from where they rest on my keyboard, so ergonomically there is less movement involved too.
Thank you both for the timely replies and pushing my question into a product suggestion!
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: Combine of two files with marks in different scales
If I understand your question correctly, you want to move markups from a sheet at scale "X" to a sheet at scale "Y". The cleanest way to do this is to set the drawing scales of each sheet, then group the markups (shift+G) and add them to your tool chest. Make the group have a dynamic scale and then insert that tool on the new sheet.