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✴️ Feature Highlight: Creating Viewports
This week, we're highlighting how to use Viewports in Bluebeam Revu to take accurate measurements across multiple scales! But what happens when a single drawing contains areas with different scales? That's where Viewports come in. Viewports let you define specific zones of a drawing that use a different scale than the…
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Auto Hover Preview Image for Hyperlinks
I would like to see an Auto Hover to Preview images that are linked negating the need to click away to another page.
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Bidirectional Excel/CSV Integration – Import & Update Markup Metadata
Hi Bluebeam Team, I am writing to suggest a feature that would significantly enhance the workflow for users handling large-scale projects: the ability to import markup data from Excel/CSV back into Bluebeam to update existing properties. Currently, in my industry, we use Bluebeam to assign unique IDs and metadata to…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Creating the Perfect Circle
This week, we're highlighting how to create the perfect circle in Bluebeam Revu! ➡️Here’s how: Navigate to Tools Click Markup Select the Ellipse tool Before placing the ellipse tool on your document → Press and hold Shift …and now you have the perfect circle! 🔵 Resizing the circle is easy, too. Select the circle Press and…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Matching Colors with the Eyedropper Tool
This week, we're highlighting how to match markup colors instantly using the Eyedropper tool in Bluebeam Revu! Keeping your markups visually consistent is key—especially when teams use color to represent trades, status updates, or review comments. Instead of manually selecting the same color each time, Revu makes it easy…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Custom Stamps
This week, we're highlighting the Custom Stamps feature in Bluebeam! It’s a simple, yet powerful way to standardize approvals, reviews, and document status across your workflows. With Custom Stamps, you can create reusable stamps that automatically populate key information like the user’s name and date. ➡️Here’s how: #1 Go…
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Make Markups Easier To See, Especially for Colorblind Eyes
For anyone with color vision deficiencies, there is a way to make markups stand out from the drawing. On the menu bar select View—>Dimmer—>20% (or your choice) This fades the PDF but NOT the markups. I searched this discussion board and there were no results for colorblindness, colorblind, or color vision, so I thought I…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Quantity Link
Takeoffs and estimating can be time-consuming, but Quantity Link in Bluebeam Revu Complete helps streamline the process by linking your measurement data directly to Excel. As you update your takeoff in Revu, your spreadsheet updates automatically helping you keep calculations accurate and reducing manual entry errors.…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Count Tool
Trying to figure out how many markups are on a PDF? Ditch the manual counting and use the Count Tool! Here’s how you can count objects in a PDF: Go to Tools > Measure > Count If you want to set the Count measurement's appearance: Go to Window > Panels > Properties Now, click each object in the PDF that you would like to be…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Creating Custom Statuses
Did you know that you can set the status of any markup in the Markups list and create your own custom statuses? To create a custom status, you first must create a custom model. Click Window > Panels > Markups Then, on the Markups list, click the icon on the Status column and click Manage Status. Click Add below the Models…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Creating Layered PDFs
Did you know that you can easily create a layered PDF from a group of existing PDFs, where each will be a separate layer in the PDF? First, go to File > Create > Layered PDF Click Add Open Files to add all files currently open in Revu to the layered PDF. You can select a file and click to remove one. Comment down below: Do…
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Review Status in the All Sessions View
I do a lot of reviews for a lot of projects and because of that I utilize the "My Status" option to mark projects complete. It would be great if that indication could be brought out to the All Sessions view so I can easily see which projects I have completed. It gets pretty cumbersome to click through all the projects but…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Dynamic Fill
This week, we’re highlighting Dynamic Fill! This tool makes it easy to quickly measure irregular areas by filling them in. No need to trace every edge manually—it’s fast and helpful for area and volume calculations. How do you or your team utilize the Dynamic Fill tool for quick and accurate measurement? What specific…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Tool Set Legend
Want to make your markups easier to understand at a glance? Try adding a Tool Set Legend to your document! Let’s talk about legends and how you can make your own. A legend shows information about markups used on all or some of the pages in the document. Tool Set legends include any markups added to a document from a…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Split View
Did you know that you are able to break up your workspace into up to sixteen multiple splits that can be synchronized? Here’s how: Find the Navigation bar at the bottom of the workspace or in the View menu. To split the window vertically, click or press CTRL + 2. To split the workspace horizontally, click or press CTRL +…
