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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…
Every Friday a small group of us posts a "Fun Fact" to share with all our Bluebeam users in our office, and I'm especially proud of this one. 😊 (Created with some help from Claude!) https://us.v-cdn.net/6038146/uploads/3JN77WIYELQH/lady-whistledown.pdf
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…
Join me on March 26th for a 30-minute tips and tricks sessions where we will cover: "Bluebeam Tips and Tricks: All About the Toolchest" Build a smart Tool Chest that keeps your most-used markups and measurements one click away Organize tools into clear, role-based sets so project managers, estimators, and field teams see…
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…
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…
Join me on January 21th for a 30-minute tips and tricks sessions where we will cover: "Bluebeam Tips and Tricks: New Year’s 2026 Edition"Instantly speed up your work with the most overlooked features Clean up and standardize your files for smoother collaboration Use measurements and markups more efficiently Build a…
Did you know that you can create markups using an image from a PDF using the Snapshot tool? First, go to Edit > Snapshot and drag a box around the shape you want to use as a markup. Then, click anywhere on the PDF and select Paste. Right click on the shape and select Properties. You can make any changes to the markup’s…
Hyperlinks don’t just have to navigate to a web page; they can also jump to a snapshot view in another PDF! Here’s how: Make sure that both PDF files are open and select the one that is going to get the hyperlink so it is active. Go to Tools > Hyperlink Click and drag a rectangle on the current PDF. The blue rectangle…
Three identical polylength markups: Markups List: I wanted a system that would allow me to choose a pricing based on the measurement itself, the depth area, or a simpler lump sum type value. I highlighted the part of the formula that does this. You can ignore the [Qty Added]. That was just so that I could have the added…
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Have you ever opened a file and tried to do some annotations and takeoff and it was locked with no permissions for the viewer? Are you unable to even print it to a .pdf or affect any change to it? Boooooo! Me Too. Looking for a workaround? I Found One! Aaaannnd, You're welcome. — If you have a other workaround, please…
My team discovered something this week We received a set of drawings under NDA which had the name of the company blacked out. However, whoever did this ‘redacted’ them incorrectly. It appears that they used a highlighter tool to do the redactions, made it black, and then did an unrecoverable flatten. (I assumed this…
This week, we'll be highlighting the Rotating Measurement Captions feature in Bluebeam! It's a simple, yet mighty feature that allows a user to rotate Measurement captions. Here's how: Select the measurement markup whose caption is to be rotated. Click the anchor point and drag it to the desired angle. Notice that the…
I finally figured out the best use for the typewriter tool. In the past, I've exclusively used Bluebeam for markups with the occasional form to fill out. Since most of my forms had built-in fields, filling them out was pretty easy. And those that didn't only had a few lines to enter manually. But recently I had some other…
Are you frustrated by Bluebeam switching the mouse wheel from ZOOM to SCROLL and back again? Have no fear; there is a solution. Holding down the Ctrl key while scrolling with the mouse wheel allows you to switch between zooming and scrolling. The link below goes into more detail and how you can set the default behavior.…
This week, we're highlighting how to add Actions to markups in Bluebeam Revu! PDF markups can be configured to perform certain actions when clicked, like jumping to a specific location in a document or opening another file when you add an Action. In addition, Tool Chest tools can be configured to create markups with…
These are the instructions I created for my office to help people setup a Studio Session and include custom Status for your use. Feel free to ask any questions or offer suggestions. https://us.v-cdn.net/6038146/uploads/P9CQ4913KBGO/bug-studio-sessions.pdf