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One part question one part idea for y'all today. My office uses studio session extensively to redline and coordinate with several different consultant teams at once. A PM will have to manage 2-7 Bluebeam sessions at once, one per project site. Our field reps will be in and out of 20-40 sessions per week. The firm standard is to have updated progress sets printed with redlines transferred every two weeks during CD’s, and at least weekly during the last two months of the project. Right know when we update our sheets, we are having to save the files out, then export the markups, then open the new file, import the mark up, and then save again and finally upload to the sessions. The export markup function is grayed out in sessions even for admins although being able to make markups and alert markups are both applied permissions. The files are hundreds of pages long, and each session will have several, so manually copying over the redlines is not an option, and would also change its owner to who pasted it not who originated the redline. This takes 5 minutes per file, which really starts to add up and eat into the workday.

My question is - does anyone know of a work around or smoother workflow for keeping both sheets updated along with redlines?

My idea is - add a toggle for access to the markup list drop down within applied permissions, this would allow for session admins to delegate redline transferring to each set lead without having to give them document upload rights. Id love to hear yalls thoughts on this!

That was part of what document sets was supposed to do, but it isn't supported in a session and is a struggle to work with. We have had several projects move into using ACC or Aconex for this reason, although those tools are not nearly as good - but they do this task of tracking comments through the development of the drawings that unfortunately Bluebeam does very poorly on. It's a feature request.

Ticket submitted, thanks.

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I know of 2 computers in our office that are having the same issue. All drivers are up-to-date on both computers, and the latest Windows updates are also installed on both. One computer is running Windows 10 and the other is Windows 11. Both are Dell Precisions (5820 & 3680), and both use a NVIDIA graphics card (Quadro RTX 4000 & RTX 2000ada). We have about 80 Bluebeam users and currently only 2 have reported this issue. The two computer models that are experiencing the issue are not unique in our environment; many others in our firm are using Bluebeam on the same models without an issue. Interestly, both users experiencing the issue are in our Civil department; no issues have been reported from our Structural, MEP, or Architectural departments. So, my best guess at this point is the issue stems from some software that is unique to our Civil department.