📅 October 2024 Challenge – Shortcuts!

Marco M
Marco M Posts: 131
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Hi everyone!

Welcome to the October 2024 Monthly Challenge! Last month, we explored how you add your "Seal of Approval" to documents, whether through signatures, stamps, watermarks, or other methods. We saw some great responses and a variety of methods across the community.

This month, we’re shifting gears to focus on efficiency! In this challenge, we want to hear about your favorite Shortcuts! Share those keyboard shortcuts that keep your workflow smooth and efficient.

For those wanting to know more about monthly challenges, please visit this link.

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💬 Share & Discuss

Post your favorite Bluebeam shortcuts that save you time.

Comment on and upvote your favorite shortcuts shared by others here. What shortcuts have you learned that could boost efficiency for everyone?

🤝 Why Participate?

  • Discover and share shortcuts that help streamline your work in Revu. 
  • Engage with the community to pick up new shortcuts you may not have known about. 
  • Your experience could inspire others to work more efficiently, and you’ll get recognition for helping fellow members.

Resources

To help enhance your shortcut knowledge, check out these resources:

Support Article: How to customize Revu keyboard shortcuts

https://youtu.be/30DszKeTWkQ?si=d3MbtDhzEo5L3aZj

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  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 260

    The only shortcut I use is Ctrl+s because I don't repeat enough commands to think about shortcuts even though I have a list pined to my cubicle wall. That said, I am looking forward to using the status shortcuts now that they are available.

  • Angela Aff
    Angela Aff Posts: 137

    I spy with my little eye two awesome BUG members sharing knowledge with their peers! Way to go, @Luke Shiras & @Jorge Contreras !

    And of course you too, @akhikund !!

  • Mark Gerving
    Mark Gerving Posts: 9

    There are so many to choose from, however the 2 I use the most, outside of CTRL+C & V are CTRL+SHIFT+ V, paste in place and to copy a markup which is to select the markup and then hold the CTRL key and drag with the mouse to create another copy.

  • Marco M
    Marco M Posts: 131

    I usually have the first 3 pages of this keyboard shortcuts pdf printed on my desk. 😁

    https://support.bluebeam.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/revu20-keyboardShortcuts-US.pdf

  • Sumit Roy
    Sumit Roy Posts: 13

    Besides common shorcut like Ctrl+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+SHIFT+V, my favorite shortcuts are Snapshot (G), Stamp (S), Text (T), Line (L), Dimension (Q), Length (W).

    My main working software is Tekla Structures. I customize Bluebeam shortcuts to have same keyboard shortcuts for Tekla & Bluebeam.

    Example: i use Q for Dimension in Bluebeam and to give horizontal dimension in drawings in Tekla

    i use W for Length in Bluebeam and to give vertical dimension in drawings in Tekla

  • jrideout
    jrideout Posts: 4

    With all the customizations implemented on our Bluebeam profiles, I find myself toggling the Reuse Markup Tool often and have assigned it to the ~ (tilde) key, which aligns with the My Tools assignments.

    Extract Pages (CTRL + SHIFT + X), the Snapshot functions (G and SHIFT + G), and the Format Painter (CTRL + SHIFT + C) are good time savers as well.

  • James Schmidt
    James Schmidt Posts: 25

    Much Like @Sumit Roy Ctrl+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+SHIFT+V, are ones that I use with muscle memory, regularly, along with "G" and "Ctrl + S" but there is another simple one that saves me time on a regular basis.

    (Ctrl + E), which opens an email in your default email and appends the document title as the subject line. This is great for immediately after you save the document, because now its saved where you want it and you can quickly send that email with the right nomenclature in the subject line, and send it off right away. NOTE: It doesn't automatically add your email signature but that's only a couple of clicks to remedy that.

    It also works great for quick turn revisions throughout the course of a project without having to track down the source of the file. Just hit (Ctrl + E), and you are ready to add comments to the body of the email and fire it off.

    Try it, you'll like it.

    Cheers!

    James Schmidt

    Industrial Estimator / PM / Professional DWG Interpreter & Spec. Analyst

  • Praveen Pushpala
    Praveen Pushpala Posts: 3
    edited October 20

    Hello BlueBeamers!!🙂
    I’m Praveen, excited to join this community and connect with like-minded people!!

    My essential shortcuts that enhance the speed of my markups and improve overall efficiency are

    T for Text box.
    C for callout.
    H for highlight . ( '2' for green highlight to indicate completed items, and '3' for red flags- shortcuts from My tool chest)
    R for rectangle
    L for Line

    With the above along with CTRL + X, V, C, S , I'm happy-operating in F11 mode :)

  • Eric Schuelke
    Eric Schuelke Posts: 1

    I use 'H' (highlight) a lot in my preliminary review. Additionally, when highlighting vector text I also built a custom 'Bid Scope' markup column in the Markups List to identify what the highlighted text is referencing. Example ("01-Warranty" "02-Fire Rating"). That way when I open the specification I can see the items specific to my bid estimate at a glance. It also helps when exporting an XML doc into my Excel bid file to populate fields with certain information.

  • Marco M
    Marco M Posts: 131

    Welcome @Praveen Pushpala and first time posters! Glad to have you in the Bluebeam Community.

    Also, these are some great shortcut call-outs!

  • samisasm
    samisasm Posts: 16

    I use the essential shortcuts during the project execution.

    T For Text call to put a comment

    C for cloud put on a particular region to bring attention.

    H for highlight.

    Besides this, one of the favourite shortcuts is CTRL+SHIFT+V (to copy something from one page to another page and to keep at the same location)

  • Subhabrata Sengupta
    Subhabrata Sengupta Posts: 3

    I have two favourite shortcuts, one is draw the clouds, that is C and other one is Ctrl+Shift+V.

  • Praveen Pushpala
    Praveen Pushpala Posts: 3

    Thank you @Marco M, for the warm welcome! I’m excited to be part of this community and look forward to engaging with everyone.

  • Bryan Krawczyk
    Bryan Krawczyk Posts: 2

    Using the back/forward buttons on a mouse for "Previous/Next View" has always been one of my favorites. I won't buy a mouse without these buttons because of Bluebeam!

    One of my most used is S (stamp). I created a current date stamp, formatted with my default text, so I can quickly stamp today's date instead of writing it out.

    I also use Flatten, but I could never remember the shortcut, so I changed it to Ctrl + Shift + F.

    Other favorites:

    • Ctrl to toggle the mouse wheel between zoom and pan
    • Shift while rotating a markup for 1-degree increments
    • Ctrl + Shift + Click a markup to copy it and move in a straight line
    • Ctrl + Shift with the Highlight tool - usually when highlighting drawings or a table that doesn't want to cooperate
    • Drag and drop recent files from the File Access tab to a folder or email

  • Molly.Richardson.CSC
    Molly.Richardson.CSC Posts: 8

    I set up my left hand to be my most common shortcut needs with how I remember them.
    q w e r t
    a s d f g
    z x c v b

    q - callout (question)
    w - flatten (write)
    e - erase content
    r - rectangle
    t - textbox

    a - format painter (apply this style somewhere else)
    s - Stamp
    d - paste in place… same spot (drop here)
    f - cut (fix)
    g - screenGrab

    z - autosize text box (zoom in on text only)
    x - line (need lines to make an x)
    c - cloud
    v - Insert Pages (Validate — since I mostly append calculation files to my delegated submittal packages)
    b - Bookmark

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