🗓️ March 2025 Challenge - Markup Madness!

Marco M

Hi everyone!

March is here, and that means it’s time for Markup Madness! This month, we’re putting the spotlight on markups. Whether it’s a creative use of shapes, colors, callouts, stamps, or images, we want to see how you bring clarity, efficiency, and maybe a little fun, to your documents. 

And since it’s March Madness season 🏀, we’re adding a fun twist! We’ll be collecting markup entries for the first three weeks and then putting the top markups up for a vote in Week 4. The custom markup with the most votes will be crowned the winner and announced in early April. 

Please make sure to review our Rules & Guidelines before participating.

📢 How It Works 📋️

• Weeks 1 - 3 (March 1 - 21): Submit your favorite custom markup! Share a screenshot and/or description of how you use markups in Bluebeam. 
• Week 4 (March 24 - 29): The top 10 entries will be featured in a community poll, and everyone can vote for their favorite. If there are more than 10, the Community Team will vote for the best markups to move on.
• Winner Announced (April 4): The markup with the most votes wins and gets bragging rights and a $50 Snappy gift!

🎖️ Recognition & Prize 🎁

• All members that participate by posting their markup for voting or commenting will earn a special Markup Madness badge and points to level up in the community. 
• The winner of this challenge after voting will receive a $50 gift through Snappy.

💬 Share & Vote 📊

• Post your favorite custom markup. Feel free to include any creative applications. How do you use markups to speed up reviews, organize information, or enhance clarity? 
• The community will vote on the top entries and the winner will be announced in April! 

📚️ Resources 🧠

Customizing Markups

https://youtu.be/WgC24KNBLjw?si=djEp0zs4h6JX2Rpa

We can’t wait to see your markups in action! Let’s make this a month of creativity, collaboration, and competition.

Ready to enter? Drop your favorite custom markup below! ⬇️

Ali Shrih

Here is a markup I use to create a color-coded table used to display a short piece of information. The table colors will be matched to line colors used on the pdf.

Note: You are supposed to be able to double-click on any text box in the group and edit the text in it. Unfortunately, the new Bluebeam update 21.4 seems to have broken that behavior. The attached table works on my machine, but I cannot guarantee that it will work on yours.

Table Markup 01_Shrih.pdf

vfrench

Example of a security camera which rotates to display the coverage…

https://youtu.be/7d63y7VzgvY

James Schmidt

I am sharing how I manage markups related to generating RFI's. I have some 360 camera workflows that are also very cool but this is one that I reviewed with Skylar Denney Senior Product Designer at Bluebeam Inc. who was conducting a study to better understand how professionals like us use Bluebeam in our daily work. We talked for a while and this workflow for RFI generation was something that she found to be very helpful for such a task.

Multiple files, containing RFI Questions / Clarifications and Exclusions

• Open the files that have the data,
• Click Summary / CSV Summary
  
• "Add" Open Files
  
• Load Config (.bcf file) that offers, Subject, Page Label, Comments & File Name and under Include select Markups.
  

Click "OK" and take the data and paste it in to a pre filled out template that is ready to name and send.

Now the receiving person can see the RFI Questions / Clarifications and Exclusions as well as the Document and Page where they are in the bid documents for ease of use and clarity.

Please see link to video, its a little quiet.

https://youtu.be/DfmxPYQOqc0

Hope this helps.

Happy Bluebeam-ing!