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Re: 🗓️ August 2024 Challenge - Custom & Favorite Tool Sets!
I’m excited to kick off our first Community Challenge by sharing a custom emoji tool set created by our very own @Peter Noyes. This tool set is designed to add a fun and personalized touch to your projects. Feel free to try it out. I have attached it to this post below.
Note: This tool set is fairly large, and it will take some time to load.
Any feedback is also appreciated here, so let us know your thoughts!
- Feel free to test the emoji tool set.
- Spot any glitches and share your feedback.
- Suggest improvements or new features.
You'll also find a great list of custom tool sets within our Revu Custom Libraries.
Thank you in advance for your contributions and we can't wait to see what all your favorite tool sets are.
All emojis designed by OpenMoji – the open-source emoji and icon project. License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Marco M
🗓️ August 2024 Challenge - Custom & Favorite Tool Sets!
Hey everyone!
Join our August 2024 Monthly Community Challenge and share your best custom or favorite tool sets! For those wanting to know more about monthly challenges, click here.
This month, we’re focusing on the incredible flexibility of our markup tools and how you use them to create custom tool sets.
📋️ Challenge Details
Share your best custom and/or favorite tool sets. This can include calling out your most used tool sets, attaching some custom tool sets to share with the community, or even calling out some existing tool sets that need updates.
Note: We understand some tool sets might be private, or intellectual property. Please make sure you have permission to share.
🎖️ Rewards
Participants will earn a special badge (shown above) and points to help you rank up in the community.
⁉️ What to Do
- Create and Share: If you do not feel comfortable uploading custom tool sets, feel free to share some of the types you’ve created, your favorites, and how you and your team use them.
- Use our versatile markup tools to design your own fully customized symbols and save them in the Tool Chest as a unique tool set.
- Post or describe your custom tool set(s) here and explain how you use them. Whether you use tool sets to stay organized, remain consistent across teams, or to speed up repetitive tasks, we'd love to see them!
- Discuss: Engage with other members by commenting on and upvoting your favorite tool sets.
🤝 Why Participate?
- Standardize: Sharing tool sets helps set standard markups for different projects, job functions, and clients.
- Collaborate: Connect with fellow members and learn new ways to enhance your workflow.
- Showcase: Highlight your expertise and creativity with custom tool sets.
- Points: Gain points by earning a special badge and make your way to the top of the Leaderboard.
You can also find a list of custom tool sets within our Revu Custom Libraries, with details on how to import and export tool sets within our How to share Tool Sets article.
For those interested in learning more, feel free to check out our Tool Chest Overview course within Bluebeam University.
We can’t wait to see the shared feedback and some custom tool sets you’ve created. Let’s make this challenge a showcase of our community’s creativity and expertise.
Happy sharing!
Marco M
Re: Highlighter Tool
Holding Ctrl as suggested will temporarily override the text highlighting, and there is a Preference setting you can disable to completely turn this off.
Go into Revu's Preferences (Ctrl+K), select Windows on the left, then on the Tablet tab, un-check "Enable Text Highlighting" and click OK.
With this disabled it will no longer recognize and try to select the text in PDFs when highlighting. You can also hold the shift key while drawing a free-hand highlight to draw a straight line.
Re: Highlighter Tool
@Rob7603 The highlighter tool can be used freehand if there is no text underneath. You can also override text mode and draw free-form highlights over a text area by holding CTRL while you click and drag.
Hope that helps! We also have a lesson on essential markup tools in Bluebeam University if you're interested in learning more about the different ways you can use markup tools in Revu. There's a video that specifically goes over the highlight tool and the different ways you can use it in the lesson "Essential Markup Tools" in our Revu Essentials course.
@Luke Shiras I like your answer too!
How to create offset lines
Revu doesn't have an offset feature that really works but you can use custom line styles to create a guide line to work to - not only does this work for straight lines but also basically any shape that you need to work to.
Re: Quantity Link
Hi @Brent
If you're interested in seeing what you can get out of a Bluebeam and Excel combination then this might give you an idea
Re: Quantity Link
Hi @vfrench,
Thanks so much for the suggestion. Power Query looks like a great option. Now looks like I have some homework to do on using Power Query!
Brent
Why is OCR so Bad?
The plans we received from the EOR are a mess when it comes to hidden text, so doing things like creating page labels, bookmarks, or Set labels from Page Regions doesn't work and we basically have to manually edit everything, which can be a pain on a 770+ page plan set. At support's suggestion, they had me Print to Bluebeam PDF to clean all that up and then run OCR. It did improve things, but I still need to correct a lot of sheet numbers. It thinks 1's are 7 or I, it thinks B is 8, thinks W is V \ /, and S is 5. That's just the sheet numbers I'm working with. I can't image how it's messing up numbers on the sheets in general. Here are just a few examples, I fixed most of them before thinking to post.
Re: 💡 Share Your Bluebeam Tips & Tricks!
It appears your links use an old format.
You need to remove "/bluebeam-connect" from the url.