💡 Share Your Bluebeam Tips & Tricks!
Hello Bluebeam community!
Welcome to the Bluebeam Community, a platform designed for Bluebeamers worldwide to build connections, stay updated, and contribute insight.
This forum can help with collaborations, sharing workflows, and promoting best practices. We’d love to have you share your experiences with Bluebeam and the effective practices you’ve implemented.
To kick things off, we’re introducing our very first badge reward! Follow the instructions below to earn one of your first badges, along with points! For detailed information about our Bluebeam Community Points & Rewards Program, Badges, and Points, please visit the Community Hub forum and review the Welcome Guide FAQs.
To earn your Tipster badge:
- Create a post in the Peer Support forum.
- Add any type of media to support your tip within the post.
- This can be a simple image, video, or link showing what your tip does.
- Provide any details, such as example steps on how a new Bluebeam user might use your tip.
- After you've created your post, come back to this post and create a comment with a link to the post you created.
Once you've commented here with a link, you’ll be rewarded with your badge!
To kick things off, here’s an example:
TIP: Pin a tool/toolset to a toolbar
Pinning is a great way to make your frequently-used actions more accessible. Here’s how:
Pin a tool to a toolbar:
- Navigate to the tool
- Click Pin to the right of the tool
- Select which toolbar to add it to
Pin a toolset to a toolbar:
- Navigate to the tool set in the Tool Chest
- Click the tool set gear wheel
- Click Pin
- Select what toolbar to add it to
We can’t wait to see all the tips, workflows, and best practices the community shares!
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Check out this simple tip. See below
RJ Palis, PE
AECOM Hunt
Digital Technology-BIM/VDC Senior Manager
Building & Construction Technologies
(m)213.364.7665 | (e) rj.palis@aecom.com
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Bluebeam Certified Professional (BCP)
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Bluebeam Certified Professional (BCP)
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It appears your links use an old format.
You need to remove "/bluebeam-connect" from the url.
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@Luke Shiras - Bernardo Wills - good catch! We've updated the original links @RJ Palis & @George Othitis posted. They should work now😁
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SATBUG Champ
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A simple tip to translate markups
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Great tips so far!
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Benefit of tool Snapshot (G)
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Tip: Grouping/ Ungrouping the Markups
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Tip: Bluebeam -Copy a comment on many pages
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Check out this discussion - Its focuses on Locked Files / Secured Documents, and there is a tip that would benefit anyone experiencing the same issue.
James Schmidt
Industrial Estimator / PM / Professional DWG Interpreter & Spec. Analyst
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Want to understand how to create a session for a better workflow? Try this How To: instruction document.
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