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Search Text with Regular Expressions
Revu's text searching is excellent. My workflow involves lots and lots of it. The ability to use regular expressions would be a massive timesaver.
Paste All Features from Tool in Tool Chest
Instead of just being able to paste the formats from a tool saved in the tool chest it would be really handy to be able to paste the main features e.g. Format, Subject, Layer, etc..
This way, if you use the wrong tool or something changes, you can quickly change the markup that you've already completed without either starting again or going through all of the properties indiviually.
vfrench
A Valentine's Ode to Shortcuts
Hello! It was requested of me to share this post from my LinkedIn with the Bluebeam Community! Hope you enjoy, and Happy Valentine's Day!
A Valentine's Ode to Shortcuts
Oh dearest keys, my fingers dance,
A love so pure, a true romance.
No wasted clicks, no aimless strife,
You bring such ease into my life.
With just one tap, you steal my heart,
A perfect pair—we’ll never part.
Ctrl + Z, you right my wrongs,
Undoing woes where they belong.
H for highlights, bold and bright,
Marking love notes left and right.
G to capture moments dear,
A snapshot saved, forever near.
C, makes clouds, correcting wrongs,
I love so much I could sing a song.
Q for callouts quick and sweet,
Where words and passion always meet.
T for textboxes, so sharp and true,
Expressing instruction the perfect queue.
No lag, no wait, just swift embrace,
A shortcut’s love is full of grace.
So here’s my heart, my Valentine,
To every keystroke, pure, divine.
Oh shortcuts dear, my endless bliss,
Sealed forever with a digital signature that really locks up your document and someday soon we'll show you how to fix that too.
hatch tool lineweight
When hatching an area in bluebeam, you can change the lineweight of the shape, but you can't change the lineweight of the hatch. Sometimes it is hard to see the hatch. This would be a nice feature to consider adding.
Re: 🗓️ February 2025 Challenge - Template Time!
One of my templates in use - far easier than trying to flick backwards and forwards through loads of drawings…
vfrench
Print to Bluebeam Problem Resolved
I just installed version 21.4 this morning on a second work machine, and encountered the common problem of Print to Bluebeam being broken during install. I resolved the problem using the following steps (Windows 11, 64 bit). I have admin privileges, so make sure you can make such changes before starting. I can't guarantee this is the exact right way to accomplish this fix, but these are the steps that worked for me. Proceed at your own risk.
1. In Windows, go to "Printers & Scanners" by searching your device
2. My device showed that Bluebeam was installed as a printer, but was disconnected.
3. Click on the line showing the Bluebeam print device, and hit the "Remove" button
4. Once it has been removed, search Windows for "Bluebeam Administrator 21" and open it. Click "yes" to allow changes to your device.
5. A window will open. Go into the "Print" tab and then click on "Reinstall Printer".
6. You should see a small dialogue box pop up after a little bit that says "Printer Install Succeeded".
This restored all previous print to PDF using Bluebeam as the print device. Hopefully it helps you, too!
Navigation Bar Page Number Width
Is there a way to reduce the width of the page number field? It seems to be wasted space. As a result of this field being so wide, the "Next Page" icon gets buried when my Bluebeam window is in a reduced/condensed view. It's a hassle and quite slow to click a "down triangle" and then hover over to the next page button to click through pages.
My work around currently is to turn-off other icons in the navigation bar, which is not ideal.
Re: 🗓️ January 2025 Challenge - New Year, New Discoveries!
There are so many to choose from - I use sketch to scale a lot, cut-outs, flip, multiply, etc.. And as mentioned previously, dimmer is a massive help on many occasions. However, I still like the lasso tool for selecting markups - when I show this many people say they either had no idea it existed or, if they did know, they didn't know what they could use it for.
vfrench
Tool Set Change Color
Add an option to change the source color of all tools in a tool set. A dropdown with change color from: XX, to: XX would be really useful for people who use the exact same tools but different color for each discipline or role.
Thumbnails Pane: Show Page Size
Currently in the Thumbnails Pane on Revu, there's an option to show Page Label and Page Scale beneath each page's thumbnail. There's also a helpful "Create Page Labels" button which works best in documents where all the pages are the same size.
When documents contain multiple page sizes, it slows down the process of using the "Create Page Labels" tool to grab a page number or sheet title, since that text often moves depending on page size. Being able to show page sizes in the thumbnail view would allow users to only select sheets of one size at a time without having to guess whether the tool works based on thumbnails.
Showing page size would also help users select only pages of a certain size when printing, (e.g. to large format printers.)