📅 October 2024 Challenge – Shortcuts!
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.
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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
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Comments
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My favorite shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+v ( to copy from one page to another at the same location)
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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.
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Best one that gets a ton of usage by me is Ctrl+G and Ctrl+Shift+G. Use this a ton of times during design reviews when combining markup tools with snapshots.
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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 !!
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Probably my most used keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Click and Drag to duplicate a markup or Ctrl+Shift+Click and drag to duplicate a markup and constrain it on the x or y axis.
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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.
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I usually have the first 3 pages of this keyboard shortcuts pdf printed on my desk. 😁
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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
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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.
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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
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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 LineWith the above along with CTRL + X, V, C, S , I'm happy-operating in F11 mode :)
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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.
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Welcome @Praveen Pushpala and first time posters! Glad to have you in the Bluebeam Community.
Also, these are some great shortcut call-outs!
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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)
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I have two favourite shortcuts, one is draw the clouds, that is C and other one is Ctrl+Shift+V.
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Thank you @Marco M, for the warm welcome! I’m excited to be part of this community and look forward to engaging with everyone.
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Top shortcuts built in:
G - Snapshot
Shift+P - Default polygon
Shift+N - Default Polyline
T - Default Text Box
Q - Default Callout
K - Default Cloud+
Shift+click on control point to remove, or add control point to shape
Ctrl (usually I use Ctr+Click and drag) to turn a control point into a curve. Using the Ctrl+Click and drag in the same direction that you drew the shape will place your cursor exactly on the spot you need to delete the second curve control handle
Ctrl+Alt+C - Full page snapshot (for custom overlays)
Ctrl+Shift+V - Paste in place
Ctrl+Click and drag (middle of a markup) to copy, add shift to keep in line with previous
Double click mouse wheel - zoom to extent of page
Alt+pgUp or pgDwn - Cycle to the next PDF in the folder
Ctrl+Shift+M - Flatten (Batch available in this menu)
Ctrl+Shift+U - Unflatten
Ctrl+F3 - Import Markups, FDF, or both
Custom Shortcuts I set:
Ctrl+Shift+P - Page Setup (Batch available in this menu)
Ctrl+Shift+H - Batch Headers and footers
F11 - Export FDF (Not fond of full screen)
F12 - Import FDF
Shift+C - Convert to Arc (This is useful for Doors or anywhere you have a 90° curve, click the ctrl point you are trying to convert, it will look for the 90° and make a perfect arc)
I also set my extra mouse buttons to the snap to content and snap to markup standard shortcuts (We draw A LOT)
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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
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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 - textboxa - format painter (apply this style somewhere else)
s - Stamp
d - paste in place… same spot (drop here)
f - cut (fix)
g - screenGrabz - 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)
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