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Re: 📣 COMMENT TO WIN AN AMAZON GIFT CARD!
Name: Akhil Kundu. I am Tekla Software Leader and Tekla Poweruser of the Canam Detailing team here in Canam Kolkata Inc. I have been using Bluebeam since 2015 & it made life so easy. Because of Bluebeam we can now proudly say "Go green Go Paperless".
My go-to Bluebeam feature is: I love the tool Overlay Pages and Compared documents and then combine the results by Export Markups from the Compared document file (the cloud marks mainly) and then import them (the .bax files) in my Overlay drawing. It is so helpful to work with change orders and revisions with this tool because the clouds help to find changes easily ( so we do not miss any) and the very tiny changes are already visible for the Overlay also (Which we can not get only in Compared doc by cloud).
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Re: Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
I have found that an example where this WOULD be beneficial is if A&D teams are using a session during a client meeting presentation. One person may be "hosting," while another could be documenting more detail of the comments from the client. I could see this (limited) solution work for correcting notes by select individuals as the meeting is happening.
However, I have become hesitant over the years to have this implemented into a CA (or even redlining) process. For redlining, we use an additional Markup Status called "rejected" for items that are no longer needed. But, at least we still have the log to refer back to.
Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
Please add the ability to allow some users to edit/delete other peoples comments. This can be controlled through permissions.
At our organisation when reviewing drawings there is a review manager that consolidates comments before sending them back. This process occurs regardless of if we are using Bluebeam or another tool.
Our current workaround is to remove the documents from the Session, make the edits and then re-upload to the session. However this causes issues as all the comments are then locked (even from the users that made them). It also means those changes aren't tracked in the Session audit history so its not clear what was changed.
Re: Edit/Unlock markups in Studio Sessions
Hi @Alan A.,
The general process for a review is as follows:
- Contractor submits drawings and reports to us for review (we are the client)
- The Review Lead creates a Studio Session, prepares all the documents with the required custom columns, statuses, and invites all the reviewers (up to 50 reviewers depending on the project)
- The reviewers then have 2 weeks to go through and make comments. Comments are made by adding markups (usually callouts or cloud+).
- After the 2 week review period, the Review Lead reviews everyones comments. Review lead might need to edit comments for the below reasons:
- Any time 2 reviewers have made duplicate comments one is deleted (or they are consolidated into one comment).
- If a reviewer has put incorrect data into the custom columns or has missed putting data in the custom columns the Review Lead needs to add it.
- If a reviewer has made a comment that does not comply with project deed then it would be removed.
- If a reviewers comment is unclear or needs more information to be understood, it would be edited by the Review Lead.
- Probably more reasons I can't think of right now.
- The Review Lead would then invite the contractor in the Studio Session to reply to comments.
We as the Client want our feedback to be clear, concise and provide value to the project. We also don't want to provide conflicting information. So the job of the Review Lead is very important in ensuring that all of our comments are collated well.
Re: Dark Mode / Invert Colors
Hi Jonathan and Jared,
Happy to share we will be offering "Dark Mode" with Revu 21.3, targeted for release at the end of September. This was something that we have been considering for some time, and once we were able to do some feasibility testing, we were able to offer this to solve the needs you all described. Thanks for posting and helping us to define the future of Revu!
Convert shape to Area
I don't know how many times I have drawn a rectangle or polygon shape to create an outline or fill, only to need the area. Instead of redrawing it, it would be great to be able to simply convert it to an area. Or have them always calculate area regardless of the tool?
Bluebeam Session integration with Sharepoint
Hi, I hope you are doing well. As a engineering consultation company, we go through a lot of markups for many large company projects and use the Bluebeam Revu Sessions a lot of realtime collaboration within PDFs. However, with how Bluebeam Projects and Bluebeam Sessions are setup, it can be very hard to maintain a standard structure when dealing with many iterations of markups. Just recently with the push for doing everything virtually, we've been finding ourselves using a lot of SharePoint features to manage documents, and collaborate with each other on files. I know that Bluebeam currently has an integration with SharePoint, however it only supports opening files from the online browser.
A feature I would absolutely love to see, and which would help out our company a lot, would be to have an integration to have "session like" Realtime collaboration from PDF documents hosted in SharePoint. This would allow for us to easily manage document control and host many live internal sessions. I understand that this is not currently being considered as a foreseeable integration that Bluebeam is working on (according to Bluebeam Support), but it would be a very useful and widely used integration. We are actively seeking a product that can support this type of functionality.
I hope this is maybe a feature that can be considered at Bluebeam, thank you.
Support for Revit 2025 and AutoCAD MEP 2025
When will Bluebeam provide an update for 21 that supports Revit and AutoCAD 2025? It is almost September 2024, and they are only supporting Navisworks 2025 so far with the latest build of 21.2.