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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…
I'm just going to share a few random tips and tricks I've shared in-house with my office. Here's the first one. Especially helpful when working with a Studio Session where you can't slip sheet the updated page into the set. Copy full page to snapshot (can be done by right-clicking thumbnail but, works with a targeted…
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Hi, is there a way to add an oval shape callout in Bluebeam? In my industry, we often use oval callouts to identify equipment, but currently, only rectangle, circle, triangle, and hexagon options are available. It would be great to have an oval shape option or the ability to adjust the circle dimensions to create an oval.…
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.
Occasionally, during a session a user will not see the status options needed to set the state. The occurrence is not tied to a specific user or session. This issue has persisted for years, and I am still searching for a solution - aside from additional markings or highlights in the session markups. Anyone else experiencing…
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…
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…
I want to group all WF Beams so when I click the beam for a take off it, has a pulldown to select the size. Can this be done?
When you have a document open and split so you have (2) windows, is there a way for the tools to display with each window so you don't have to go all the way across the screen to get to the 1 windows tools?
I have "mirrored" (aligned vertically) a markup (Area Measurement) which contains a Depth (markup is calculating the volume of concrete) which also contains "Polygon Cut-On". After "Aligning" ive tried to move, delete, subtract "Control Points" but nothing works. I though markup maybe "locked" but is not the case.
I am using quantity link to get length takeoffs from my PDF directly to excel. I can link a cell to a certain measurement type (length, area, etc.) but can't separate it out from there. Attached picture might make this make sense. I want the 'Length 1' measurement to go to cell B2 and the 'Length 2' measurement to go to…