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Feature Highlight: Rotating Measurement Captions
This week, we'll be highlighting the Rotating Measurement Captions feature in Bluebeam! It's a simple, yet mighty feature that allows a user to rotate Measurement captions. Here's how: Select the measurement markup whose caption is to be rotated. Click the anchor point and drag it to the desired angle. Notice that the…
📅 October 2024 Challenge – Shortcuts!
Hi everyone! Welcome to the October 2024 Monthly Challenge! Last month, we explored how you add your "Seal of Approval" to documents, whether through signatures, stamps, watermarks, or other methods. We saw some great responses and a variety of methods across the community. This month, we’re shifting gears to focus on…
Google Drive Shortcuts
When accessing files and folders that live in google drive and are shared, drive creates a shortcut in windows to access the files. We share folders of our construction drawings but only the owner has access to these through File Access in Bluebeam. Since these are shortcuts and not actual folders in windows, Bluebeam does…
Bug Report - Alert Attendee e-mails
When an attendee is alerted, they get the e-mail, with some of the info, but clicking the link does not take the user to the thing they were supposed to be alerted to. The studio session does open, but no files open. It doesn't go to the comment.
Make list of studios joined sortable by title and last time joined
when I open the studio tab, there is a random list of studio sessions that i've joined. The list is random. Sometimes the most recent ones are at the top, sometimes ones I haven't joined in weeks are randomly at the top. There is no ability to change the sorting. If I could sort it, I could quickly find the one I want.
Feature Highlight: Overlay Pages
This week we’re highlighting the Overlay Pages feature. This tool allows you to compare two or more documents by overlaying them, highlighting differences and changes with different colors. It's perfect for identifying revisions between versions of drawings. Overlaying documents can help you catch changes that might be…
Locked File Issues? Me Too!
Have you ever opened a file and tried to do some annotations and takeoff and it was locked with no permissions for the viewer? Are you unable to even print it to a .pdf or affect any change to it? Boooooo! Me Too. Looking for a workaround? I Found One! Aaaannnd, You're welcome. — If you have a other workaround, please…
Export a PDF Package from Bluebeam Studio Session
If I am not mistaken, there is no current way to export a PDF package to retain the individual pdf sets from a Bluebeam Studio Session. The only current way creates a combined PDF set, to which then the admin of the session would need to break them apart if they wanted to keep them separate.
Studio to Procore?
Do I always have to download the files from Studio to upload them in Procore?
change error message for studio
Currently, when changing networks, Bluebeam studio gets disconnected. When disconnected, and I click on a link for a studio session, I get an error that the session is not found. This causes confusion that I to ask the provider of the session to confirm that it is still active. If Studio is disconnected, can we please…

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Studio Session Permission Management
I want to better understand how permissions work in Studio Sessions. I have asked BB and was basically told to attend a 101 seminar at the end of November and read the product help screens. Really? So, I want to state what I think I already know and ask for clarification from the community. It feels like the documentation…
Revu 2016 Compared to Current Version
As an electrical contractor are there any significant changes that should persuade me to update from 2016 (paid in full) to the current version (annual subscription) software?
Insert Sheet Into Multiple PDFs - Batch Insert
Is there a way to insert a single page pdf into multiple pdfs? I need to update the title sheet of multiple pdf's. I insert the standard PDF then update a few of the text as needed.
How to edit file on BlueBeam Studio Session?
I'm searching how to insert a new sheet into a file in a Studio Session, without having to download it and then upload it again, because when I do it, all the markups of all the collaborators get blocked, and nobody can edit them again. I need to know how to insert a new sheet into the files located in BlueBeam Studio…
Hyperlink Color Auto Changes when Markups added
I have a sheet index that was batch hyperlinked and showing the color outline for it and placed in a bluebeam project with each sheet as an individual file. Is there a way to get the hyperlink color to change when a markup is added to the individual sheet? I want a way to let my large teams know that a sheet has markups…
Organizing markups in a Studio session
We typically have quite large review sessions that can reach thousands of markups from dozens of users. Many of our users, as well as our suppliers on the receiving end, ask for better ways to organize markups. Most commonly to group a set of markups to discuss at coming meetings or to assign to different users for further…
Calibration Units vs Dimension units
Did older versions of Bluebeam (18, 19 etc) automatically match the dimension units to whatever scale you calibrated to? I feel like it did' but can't confirm since I've been updated. For example, if I am working in a metric PDF, and I calibrate based on an existing dimension of 6100mm within a drawing, the new dimensions…
i have multiple viewports with different scales. how can I measure & retain different dims
If a session host has left your organization, how do you transfer the host's session ids?
Hi Everyone, I am a new Bluebeam Revu 21 administrator, and I was wondering if there is a way to bulk transfer ownership of all of the Bluebeam Session ID's from a session host that has left my organization. Thanks, Sammie
Cannot Change Status of Markup in a Session
This is probably answered somewhere, but search does not appear to be working I am and Admin in a studio session, but I cannot change the status of any markups even my own. The Set Status sub-menu in the right click is blank. Any idea on why or how to fix? Not been an issue till recently.

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Studio to Procore?
Do I always have to download the files from Studio to upload them in Procore?
Export design, review comments, and responses into a streamline Excel document
hi, my team uses bluebeam studio sessions for design reviews. Is there a simple way to export the original comment and the response comments into an Excel, CVS or xmls file?
Overlay default settings for page range not functioning
When I try to overlay two documents, I have my default settings set to "all pages", however, I have to manually change each document in the overlay list to all pages. Why is this function not working? It used to work in older versions (2015).
iPad WebDAV Connection
I purchased the iPad app. I use Microsoft SharePoint. I can't seem to connect to my account via WebDAV, it always says "Unable to Login" and "Forbidden". Do I need to configure anything in Microsoft 365?
Polyline Segment Export
Hello, we are looking for a program to create polylines with seperate measurement from segment to segment - so we found bluebeam. The next Challenge is to get the measurment of the segments into a *.csv I finally found the marking list where i can find a export - but no split for the measurments of the segments - so I hope…
Is it possible to Quantity Link Multiple Excel Cells at once?
Good day, I'm fairly new to BlueBeam 21 so I'm not sure if this has been asked/answered before, but I've searched and for the life of me I can't find a way to do it haha Problem: I'm trying to link a lot (100+) cells to show data from pdf. They should all have the same "Total" and "Subject" from the tool chest tools but…
using hyperlinks to address a cell in an excel
Behind multiple markups we want it to have a specific link to a selected cell (different per markup) in an excel sheet. Using the action and url we were able to add the link, but is does not to work. This one of the formats we tried : <filepath>#SheetName!CellReference or excel://C:/Documents/myfile.xlsx#Sheet1!B5 Both…
Excel Quantity Link - Broken Up by Floor
Hey there, I work in estimating for a local construction company and we utilize Bluebeam to create markups (counts) based on provided plans. Sometimes the plans are single story or single area buildings and other times they are multi-story or even multi-area / multi-story buildings. We usually export our markups via a CSV…
Quantity Link in Studio
Is there a way to link quantities to Excel from a Studio document? All of my work is exclusively in Studio but I can't seem to connect the two.
BOQ Rates, QS Rates, Rate Sheet Purchase. Australian Company
Good morning, Does anyone have recommendation of a Australian company that sells construction QS rate packages for building estimates? We typically outsource to QS companies our project but have the capacity and programs inhouse to do our own. The only thing missing is a rate library. In the past we have owned Rawlinson…

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