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Re: Leave Bluebeam Cloud Alone?
I specifically upgraded to Studio Core mid July 2024 to utilise the ability to work remotely on site on a tablet to produce snagging lists.
Since purchasing the Core product I have been setting my future Project up only now to find that Bluebeam Cloud is being discontinued.
There is no simple "Punch" function in Revu/Studio and all of punch-like mark ups are Americanised.
Is the only way to use this facility now to use my laptop to log into Revu and check drawings in and out remotely to synchronise them?
Multiple Legends
I can create multiple legend types. For example, if I'm doing takeoffs on a multi page document, I can create a legend that adds up my takeoffs/tool counts for each page (source = current). However, if I were to create a legend on say the cover page that adds up all the pages (source = all), the other legends on all the other individual pages go blank. If I were to re-add a legend to one of the pages (page total only, source = current), the cover page/document total legend then goes blank.
Is there a way to have a legend for each individual page total AND a legend on the cover page that totals the entire document? Meaning, if I have a 5 page document with a cover page and 4 plan pages, can I have a total combined document legend on the cover page AND a legend for each of the 4 plan pages?
Dion
Re: Multiple Legends
Not to my knowledge. From my understanding of Revu, it ensures that there is no duplication in the Legends by only allowing data in one Legend at any time. So you are looking for a way to 'trick' the software. I don't think you can. Let's see if anyone in the clever little Community has other ideas.
Sorry, I'm stumped.
Re: 🗓️ August 2024 Challenge - Custom & Favorite Tool Sets!
Thanks @Angela Aff , great discussions and applications, we use quite a large number of images in our tool chests that are scalable, we tried different ways to import the images into the tool chest and the one that worked for us was to get a high resolution pdf and take snaphot and add the snapshot to the tool chest on the proper scale. Very similar to Matias, an example here in Ontario is our Traffic Management during construction that follows Book 7, we just took all the signs from the pdf as snapshots and added them to the library and works fine for us as we scale them all the time and keep good resolution.
Juan
Re: ✴️ Experience using the Tool Chest?
Usually I organize in a way that follows my workflow. For designing I have a profile with tools for that purpose, for reviewing, a profile for that and so on. And separate tool chests for legends.
Re: Bluebeam Trial Markup mode
Hi David - with Revu 21 there is no longer a "markup mode" - the trial or full license settings are based on your Bluebeam ID (BBID) - you can see your account setting by clicking on your BBID in the top right as seen in the screenshot below. Are you unable to place markups, or just looking to toggle things until you get a full license?
Re: 🗓️ August 2024 Challenge - Custom & Favorite Tool Sets!
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Re: 👋 Introduce Yourself!
Name: Matias
Role & Company: Project- and project design engineer along with a touch of business development, digitalisation and experimental AI.
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Favorite Bluebeam feature: Batch slip sheet
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Re: Insert hyperlink in excel sheet with Destination in PDF
Hi Mai. I have not seen that ability in Bluebeam.
I could be wrong; it sounds like you might be using Excel as a Markup Register of all the markups on a PDF created in Bluebeam, then Exporting to Excel to be reviewed external to the PDF.
If that is true or similar, I suggest that you not use Excel because once the data is out of Bluebeam and in another software, the data is disconnected. My clients have successfully used workflows within Bluebeam to accomplish Markup tracking. These are creating Statuses that align with the tracking stages they had used for years in Excel. As for a report, these clients use a PDF Report to make it simpler for people to review the markups without looking at every drawing.
If you really want to push high-level reporting, push the data out and into Excel for a Pivot Table or Power BI to review the number of markups that could be "critical," "general," etc.
In short - if you can, keep the PDF as the single source of truth, and track the changes through the Markup List, your Excel lite data tool in Revu.
Good luck
Re: Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
There are a NUMBER of use cases where being able to edit other people's edits/markups would be tremendously useful. Others have spoken to the need for comment consolidation + cleanup, but I'll mention another key reason:
We often use Bluebeam as a sketching tool - it's very powerful for this. If users were allowed to edit each other's drawings/sketches it would an INCREDIBLE tool for collaborative design during live sessions, concurrent editing sessions.
I'd REALLY like to see at least an option on a file-by-file basis to allow for editing each other's markups. Thank you!