What are your Tips and Tricks for the Specification Manual?

Ted Krush · 2024-11-13T19:10:09+00:00

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What are your tips and tricks for utilizing Bluebeam when it comes to the Specification Manual beyond simply booking the sections and conducting a word search?

There are many posts and videos available on maximizing the use of drawings for markups, navigation, and collaboration. However, these resources often overlook the Specification Manual.

As a construction manager, I spend as much time in the specifications as I do in the drawings. Therefore, achieving better search results and improving data mining is essential for me.

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Jes Stafford

Best thing we did for specs - make the headers and footers the same for each page, not alternating even/odd like a hard copy. That enables all the page region automation in Bluebeam - page labels, Bookmark grouping, TOC indexing/linking, etc.

Ted Krush

Jes

Thank you. The addition of page labels really helps when it comes to reviewing the search results by showing what Spec Section the result is in instead of just seeing a page number.

Jes Stafford

Glad that is working for you and your team @Ted Krush

To clarify, making that change enables the labels in less steps.

If you ever run into a holdout throwback that want to see that header and footer alternating, you can always run the labeling for odd, then even pages. Same ends from a less efficient operation.

Cheers!