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JDR,

Making sure we are on the same page:

Are you familiar with BB's Mark Up List where you create Custom Columns and then utilize the Export Feature to Excel Function… I am trying to understand the big picture of what you are attempting to do?

No problem. However, it appears you accepted your comment as the accepted answer instead of mine. Usually I wouldn't care but when I checked for an update, it hid my answer because it had defaulted to display "accepted answers". That "tab" is not obvious so someone new would be pretty confused that you praised yourself 😁

Could it be this setting keeping you from accessing the hotkeys?

Add the tool to "My Tools" and then type the number of the tool's place in the set. So, the first tool is 1, second is 2, and so on. Sometimes I don't see the numbers, but the function still persists.

If utilizing the method that @Debora Leal outlined, you'll get the default settings of the markup tool you assigned the shortcut to. If that is adequate for your purposes then so be it. I try to keep common tool shortcuts dedicated to memory, but my markups I change the most throughout a project, I make sure to turn into a custom markup, sort it into a logical (to me) set and then put my favorites in My Tools and just use the hotkeys it assigns.

Just make sure to right-click the tool and change it to Properties Mode if you want to draw the shapes and such yourself. If you want it more like a stamp, then Drawing Mode should be good.

I hope that helped.

Correct. That is the DGL Tool Set. If you add a tool to the My Tools chest, any tool(s) there will be numbered. I believe that's the only way to give a shortcut like command to a custom markup. I know it limits the usefulness in some ways, but I hope that helps.

It has certainly been difficult for us to get to this work-around, but the issue is pretty simple.

Again, it is not the software/computer, it is what we are telling it to do.

The original PDF is 11x17, and we're working with markups placed outside of that boarder. As far as the software/computer is concerned, when printing, those graphics DO NOT EXIST, as you have seen. …"out da frame"

Go back to the original output and reset the sheet size to print that 11x17 graphic on 24x36, knowing this is how you are going to mark it up. Then you are likely not going to have that problem, and you are working with a vector PDF.

The snapshot is only my workaround because I do not have the original drawing info to work with… I did not think to try printing that 11X17 PDF on a 24x36 sheet. That may work as well.

Try this on…

I stopped fooling around with print settings and inserted a blank ARCH D sheet - 24x36.

Then, cut and pasted the markups to the new sheet

Then, inserted the drawing (11x17) on the new sheet as a snapshot, using the scale calibration mark to locate it.

Now, the print preview of the ARCH D sheet looks like what you need to print document and markups at scale.

The catch is that the snapshot of your original drawing loses some snap functionality.

Why are you using 'Adobe PDF' to drive prints out of Bluebeam?

Have you tried different setting for the page scaling? Currently set to "Reduce to Paper". Try "None."

I agree you do not want to mess up the scaling. What I was thinking in my previous post was setting up a larger sheet size than the one you are marking up.

If you are working with a 24x36 sheet size:

• draw a 48x72 rectangle at the sheet scale
• set the markup drawing roughly in the center of that
• make/add a 48x72 sheet size in print set up - like @Shaya Birnbaum illustrated in his post - changing the media size.
• test it

If you do all that, I am thinking that will trick out the print driver to show all you want at the scales of the original sheet. Looking at the last print menu screenshot above, it looks like there is still something set as confining the print window within the markup drawing size. I think it is the sheet size.

Start with using Bluebeam PDF for your printer, though.

Thank you for the reply! This looked promising for sure!

I still am not getting the ability to print both at the same time

When I make the document settings changes - printing issues remain and the settings do not grab any of the area outside the document

Dwg 1 Markups show up and I think I can get them all to show by playing with the settings

Dwg 2 Document shows

Dwg 3 Markups and Documents - Markups cut off

Dwg 4 - screen shot of what I am trying to print

What I want to print

This is just a long shot, but what save mode are you using? I would have to look into each option, but I wonder if one/some of those would hide markups?