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Re: Drag and drop document stapling

I can definitely see how much time and effort this would save for architects making ASIs or responses to AHJ comments. Likewise, Contractors creating product submittals or substitution requests.

Luke Shiras

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Re: Tip: Dimmer Tool

@Duane Gingras I just checked mine and I'm set at 40%. Thanks for the tip.

Luke Shiras

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Re: Drag and drop document stapling

Hi Alan, I do this multiple times a day, during construction administration processes.

I will combine a transmittal created in either MS Word or Excel with a PDF attachment. In other software programs I would have the PDF file open, drag the transmittal (MS Word or other) straight into the thumbnails, reorder as needed within the thumbnails, and then simply save under the proper file name. Along the same lines, I would often drag pages from open pdf documents to thumbnail section of other open pdf documents. This is easier than right clicking and "extracting". Going back to bluebeam and having the stapler "wizard", I've already accidentally saved over previous "staples", because you have to take the additional step within the wizard to "delete your stapling job". This should happen automatically. How often to you have to go back and "restaple" the same documents? I can't think of an instance where this would be necessary, unless there was a mistake made in filenames, in which case the original "staple" would be useless anyway.

It really just seems much more cumbersome than it needs to be. Both foxit and nitro have very streamlined processes for this function. They have something similar to the stapler when combining files straight out of the file folders, but also offer the other drag and drop function.

Rob Maxwell

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Re: Tip: Dimmer Tool

Great Tip! This is one of my favorite tools! When I first started using Bluebeam Revu, this was my default setting as a BIM technician incorporating redlines into Revit models. It enables me to be quick and efficient AND not miss anything.

Peter Martin

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Re: Tip: Dimmer Tool

And the companion tool (which isn't as accessible) "Filtered Annotation Dim:". You use the Dimmer to emphasize your markups and then use this to emphasize your filtered markups. Set to 0% to just see your filtered markup or set to a value greater than 0% to see a greyed out version of the markups filtered against.

Duane Gingras

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Signatures in Sessions

During a recent class, we encountered an issue with the Signature tool being grayed out during a Session. @Aily Roper from Bluebeam mentioned that 'Signatures need to save document-level info, which is not possible in Sessions - what our internal expert suggests is Electronic Signatures or applying after the Session.'