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Hey Beamers. Friday, I made a presentation to our Principals and Sr. Associates about how we can use Bluebeam Sets to track our revisions and supplementary sketches once the Construction Administration phase (CA) starts. I thought it was a warm reception. We are moving forward toward presenting this to the firm PMs. Do any…
Hi All, How is everyone tackling creating their own electrical plans ie power and lighting? Are there any tips or tricks that you can share? Apart from what's already on the program are there any other symbols we can download? Thankyou, Michael
Hello all, I am the admin for our site and can login to any of the Bluebeam portals. However, after downloading and installing Revu21, upon launching it, when I try to login using the same credentials that work every time I login to any of the portals I get an error that the username may be incorrect. It says to make sure…
Hello, I'm having trouble importing data from Excel into my PDF. My objective is to take one row of data at a time from the Excel sheet, use it to populate the text boxes in Bluebeam, print the PDF, and then repeat this process automatically for each subsequent row. Do I need to create an FDF (Forms Data Format) file to…
I'm an electrical contractor and I am working with a general contractor who manages their projects on studio. I have a core subscription to bluebeam cloud. How do I get the studio project to open in the bluebeam android app. I don't need to make any changes(I'm not authorized to do that) just need to be able to view and…
Somehow I lost the First Page button on my Nav bar. How do I get it back? I know there are other ways to get to the first page, but I miss it.
I have not used projects for some time and have just discovered it has gone replaced with studio how can i recover my "old" projects
I make a lot of PDF forms and BB's feature to "automatically create form fields" is time saving, so long as I want it to Justify Left all form fields and set the text to Helvetica Font Size 9. I find I want the majority of my forms to be AUTO font size and I want them CENTERED. I can't seem to sort out how to edit my BB's…
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Is anyone aware of a setting that will allow me to navigate between cells in the markups list with the directional arrows, tab key, or enter/return button on the keyboard similar to inputting data in excel? We sometimes use the Markups list to collect additional data from drawings and it can be slightly laborious when…
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Is there a way to be able to Add a Sequence into a Count Measurement tool? Here's my scenario…I want to be able to mark up a plan with a red dot or a blue dot with a number sequence (each dot colour will have its own number sequence) but then I want to do a count on the number of red dots and number of blue dots and add it…
Having problem opening a file downloaded from https://au.i2.saiglobal.com/ in Revu BlueBeam. Below is the error: "There is a problem with this protected document. It may be damaged. Please contact the publisher for a clean file." Currently using Revu Complete 21.5. Greatly appreciated if someone can help one this.
I use the filter markups function to locate all takeoffs. However, when I have two markups at same location as in the picture, and try to filter the markup that I need, it will not show because the other markup is greyed out and obstructs it. The filter markup feature should work in a way similar to layers. for example in…
I'm creating a smart PDF from an existing PDF and have a series of textboxes that will have the exact same properties. When I finish formatting the first textbox and copy and paste. The only properties that are copied to the next textbox are the font and layout, but not the Format properties. I've been stuck with copying…
How do I create a markup shortcut that I created?
What is the best way to track project issues? I have issues that are emailed to me by my contractor customers and need some way to flag it and remember to follow up on it. I am having too many emails fall through the cracks and are not resolved in a timely manner.
Perimeter measurement is an integral part of my work, however, is not available on my system (Bluebeam Revu x64 Basics). Is this correct and if so, what do I need to do to make this available. This is the only tool that I need (that is not available to me already) and I'm hoping that I do not have to upgrade my system to…
Whe I add a new toolbox, I am prompted for a place to save it. The default location, at least mine, is in the Windows user area. Something like C:/users/(your name)/AppData/Roaming/Bluebeam software/Revu/21. In my office we share files on One Drive. Can a default storage location be set so we don't have to climb up and…
Hi, Need to find out how to do a Global or Default setting for changing the current Measurment tool from inches to mtrs and font size, color of infill etc. Currently we have to go for every single take off measurements from changing this from Feet to Meters and rest of font size , color of infill etc. there must be a short…