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I recently received a message form a student regarding an issue with Revu. The student mentioned that they typically keep Revu open as a floating window so they can see their desktop icons. The Revu window will gradually increase in size every time the program is opened, eventually covering the status bar at the bottom.…
I have a pdf and the "Add a bookmark" not available. The button is greyed out and will not let me create a bookmark. This is a pdf of an engineers set of plans and possibly had a digital Florida Engineer seal on them. I work with these types of pdf's all the time and this is the first time that I am not able to bookmark a…
It would be really cool if in the REVU preferences general options or tools options, to be able to associate a general subject - such as "Building & Safety", or "Fire", "Planning" or "Arctitect". And if this feature could be toggled on and off for use, as some users would not want the feature. This would allow all comments…
While I wait for the influx of new members from the PHX/NorCal bug webinar I thought I'd ask about your experience with making custom hatches and line styles in Bluebeam (the topic of the webinar). There were some great examples of custom hatches and lines that made a lot of sense for those users. One was a civil office…
During a recent class, we encountered an issue with the Signature tool being grayed out during a Session. @Aily Roper from Bluebeam mentioned that 'Signatures need to save document-level info, which is not possible in Sessions - what our internal expert suggests is Electronic Signatures or applying after the Session.'
By and large we've started to ignore digital signature validation. It' sbecome a pain when you need to update some small clerical item like a typo. Under the archaic version of wet signatures, a clerical alteration was easily handle, you just did it. No one came around with their white-out to clear their signature and…
Can your Engineers roll out an update so that the Revu software 'Author' field auto updates with the licensed and registered user of the Bluebeam software? It's currently defaulting to the folder name at C:\User\username. This is problematic and time consuming for us to keep changing the Author field before sending out…
If you've ever had to place a symbol on a drawing more than three times, you've probably wondered, "I wish I didn't have to keep clicking on the symbol every time I want to place it." I have great news for you 😀 The Reuse Tools option keeps that tool selected for placing as many instances of a symbol as you need! There are…
Dimmer: The Dimmer menu contains tools to control dimmer effects on the content layer of the PDF in order to better see annotations. Dim Content (CTRL+F5): Toggles the dimmer effect on or off. 0-100%: Set the level of dimming as a percentage. The lower the percentage, the less intense the underlying PDF will appear…
Do you enjoy using the measure tool in Revit and wish Bluebeam had the same ability? Well, you're in luck, because it does. After selecting any measurement tool, expand the Measurements pulldown and uncheck “Make Annotations from Measurements”. Now when you measure something, it will be temporary and not leave a mark. Just…
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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…