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This week we’re highlighting how you can customize Toolbars to help match the way you work! Toolbars can be hidden, moved, customized, and locked in place. Customizing your workspace helps keep your most-used tools easily accessible and improves efficiency throughout your day. ⛏ With the Customize Toolbars dialog, you can:…
Little workflow tip that saves me time and storage space. Whenever I'm sending a drawing that needs a slight markup, whether its for a quote, answering a question, or anything else, I skip saving a separate file first. I attach the PDF in Outlook, double click it right in the draft to open it in Bluebeam, make my markups,…
Hey Guys, hope you all doing well, Today's Underrated Tool: Sequence If you're still numbering markups manually, you're spending more time than you need to. The Sequence tool automatically assigns numbers to your markups, making repetitive tasks fast and consistent. Here's where I use it: 🔹 Numbering room inspections. 🔹…
📐 Tool: Set to Scale One option inside this tool that I don’t see many people using: 🔺Draw a Rectangle 🔺Draw an Ellipse Instead of trying to find a known dimension on the drawing, you can use a shape with a known size to help establish the scale. For example: 🔹 Draw a rectangle over an area with a known dimension 🔹 Enter…
Today's pick: Round All Corners. If you've ever traced an area with sharp corners but needed smooth, rounded edges, this tool can save a lot of cleanup time. A few ways I use it: 🔹Landscape and pavement takeoffs. 🔹Curved sidewalks and driveways. 🔹Rounded room layouts. 🔹Site plans with curved boundaries. Instead of manually…
See how Community Champion, @Shaya Birnbaum draws a 12" soffit… Before Bluebeam Max = Time-consuming & repetitive Multiple manual measurements Repeated calculations Time-consuming sketch creation With Offset in Bluebeam Max = In seconds Trace the existing wall Apply a 12" offset Instantly create clean, accurate geometry No…
Hey Guys I used to waste so much time clicking through menus in Bluebeam... until I found this. I'm sharing one feature I wish I had customized much earlier: Keyboard Shortcut Customization. How to set it up: Go to Revu > Keyboard Shortcuts. Find the command or tool you use often. Click the shortcut field and press your…
Hey guys 🙌 Stamps are one of the most underrated productivity tools in Bluebeam. Do you kown how different professionals can use them: Architects❓ - Design Review - IFC - Revision Issued - Coordination Required - Client Approval - As-Built Structural / MEP Engineers❓ - Checked - Site Verified - RFI Required - Clash…
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…
Today's underrated feature: Auto-Size Text Box Workflow❓ 🔹 Select the Text Box tool. 🔹 Place the text box on your PDF. 🔹 Enable Auto-Size in the Properties panel. 🔹Start typing your text box automatically expands as your comment grows. Why I like it❓ When reviewing drawings, RFIs, or punch lists, I don't waste time…
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