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Is the markup greyed out or missing completely?

Is this happening on all PDF's or just this one package?

My first thought is that a Filter has been applied somewhere and needs to be removed.
Second would be that the drawings have been locked.

Shanoc, the extreme lockdown of options in bluebeam sessions is a feature great for collaborating with outsiders to your organization, but users have wanted for years to be able to reduce those restrictions and collaborate internally on one PDF, with the ability to edit others markups and you know, use the program for all its features.

As Luke posted before, the status model has to be added to a file prior to upload into a session in order to be used during a session. We use custom models so it's on our checklist of things that need to happen to files prior to being uploaded. The common workflow is saving the custom status model to the profile, set that profile current when preparing additional files to be used in the session, check to see that you could set that status to the desired state within the file and then save the PDF prior to uploading into the session.

We occasionally receive files from 3rd parties that we need to review, and to add the custom status model into those, we keep a clean pdf that just has the status models in it that we can add to other files as needed, save, remove the status page pdf, save, and the statuses will remain.

Any markup that was made on a file prior to the file being uploaded will be locked (non-editable) once loaded into a session - even to the person who made that comment, but status can still be changed, as you can with markups made by others within a session.

If you are not seeing any status available to select within a session at all, open a file (any file) outside of a session and within the markups list, go to Manage Status and in there, check on one or both of the default status models (Review and Migration). Go back to your session and you will at least have those to select from. You can't add in new models at that point, but you can at lease use the embedded ones.

Seems high, indeed! I have never noticed any lagging due to local resources. That problem usually comes from ISP/Network/Bandwidth issues and is sporadic.

System: Windows 11 Home. 64-Bit. Intel Core i7. Running Bluebeam 21.6.

You might check https://support.bluebeam.com/online-help/revu21/Content/RevuHelp/Welcome/System-Requirements--V.htm?Highlight=memory to make sure your machine matches, in case something there may be out of sync with your BB Setup.

I looked into what mine is running, for comparison. 5 tabs (local) sits at ~ 830 MB.

Adding a BBStudio connection and opening a file from that kicks it up to ~1300 MB.

Couple of ideas… Have you changed settings for any kind of graphics optimization that could be funneling resources to Bluebeam? Also, have you changed priority for Bluebeam in your Task Manager?

Hope this helps get this thing working with the rest of your system.

There are several options, Lock will keep it in place and the properties will be locked but still able to be modified. Read only will keep people from modifying it. Visibility settings can hide it. Putting it on a layer and disabling, or even setting it to be off by default is a way to keep it out of the way as well. The last two options are pretty similar, in that the fields still exist, but you just can't see them unless you go into form selection mode. Personally I like the layers because I can use JavaScript to turn the layers on and off with buttons.

I have the Revu Complete plan. Revu is largest user of memory on my system. Right now I have 4 plans open and my memory usage is at 2,486.6 MB I seem to hover around 2,000 MB. Could there be a setting I need to change which will reduce this usage? I have some lagging in other programs. I had attemped to use Studio once to collaborate with another user in our company. I believe I have closed that out. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you

Todd

Do you mean that when you apply a markup to a PDF, that same markup has Custom Column data that you can use?
If that's the case, check that your Custom Column information has come through, check the Markup List/Area.

But yes, Custom Column data will show up in the Properties of the markup once it's on the PDF. I am sure it won't show while the markup is still in the ToolChest.

To add, the Markup in the ToolChest only have Subject, Comment and Label display options.
A cool new feature is that Bluebeam has added a Search ToolChest option, so start thinking about naming conventions to speed up your markup process.