Scale and Rotate by Reference

DominikWegrecki

When I bring in a screenshot, it is not to scale, and I need to rotate it and resize to try match the pdf content. For example, sometimes I want to take an aerial screenshot and overlay it over my pdf plans. To make sure it aligns I need to scale it correctly, and rotate it correctly. It would be very handy if I could rotate by reference, and scale by reference.

Scale by Reference - if I know the road width in the screenshot is 7m, I have a reference point.

Rotate by reference - If my screenshot has two points, I can draw a straight line between them and use this as a reference to rotate the map to match my pdf plan.

Alexander McCaskill

Yes! Yes! Yes! I scale screenshots all the time as a geotechnical engineer. It is a very iterative process of guess and check to dial in the approximate scale. I was going to post an idea about this, but yours is already very clearly stated. This has already been implemented in most CADD software, so should be easy for Bluebeam to build in.

Josh Gebelein

This is a desperately needed feature. It is so tedious and exasperating to get images into their proper orientation and scale.

MKnighton

You can do this by adding a snapshot to a tool chest, assigning the snapshot scale to that tool chest, then placing the snapshot from the tool chest onto a scaled sheet. Still, it would be nice to have a dedicated "scale markups" feature.

MKnighton

Similarly, you can measure the rotational offset using the Measure Angle tool, then type in that measurement going the opposite direction in the Properties tab.

Luke Shiras

If we can use three-point alignment for overlays, surely we can do this for markups like snapshots.