What's up ya'll?
I am trying to find an efficient method to run multiple Bluebeam instances on one project file so that one instance (on one screen) is my active takeoff/markups and the other instance (second screen) live updates those markups. Does such a thing exist?
I am an electrical estimator and work on a variety of projects from commercial to healthcare to industrial projects so I am always tagging up various disciplines' drawings (architectural, structural, civil, instrumentation). I rely heavily on a custom column "additional comments" where I will utilize naming systems to quickly search those areas in my markups list and bounce around to capture takeoff.
Currently I save my active takeoff files per date, 2025126_File Name, 20250127_File Name, 20250128_File Name, etc, and I will open the previous days file on my second instance. This helps reflect what markups have been done, but leaves me bouncing around my active takeoff file to markup changes. Depending on the sheet (one-line diagrams), I may just markup yesterdays file and replace that page into my active document.
Our team does not use Bluebeam studio but I just created a project to make an attempt at running two instances to reflect live updates to the file. I have only attended a basic Bluebeam Live Training on Studio, so maybe I am missing something. But I don't believe I am seeing live updates because I've essentially just opened a read-only copy of the studio session because I am logged in with the same credentials on both instances.
Anyways, I figured this may be the best place to get some feedback. If you made it this far, I appreciate you and look forward to some hopeful solutions.
