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This week, we’re highlighting the Alert Other Studio Session Attendees to a Markup feature! Need to make another Studio Session attendee aware of a markup you or someone else made on the document? No problem! Easily send an alert to another Session Attendee: they’ll receive an email with a linked snapshot view of the…
This week, we’re highlighting Dynamic Fill! This tool makes it easy to quickly measure irregular areas by filling them in. No need to trace every edge manually—it’s fast and helpful for area and volume calculations. How do you or your team utilize the Dynamic Fill tool for quick and accurate measurement? What specific…
Create a few custom keyboard shortcuts for your most used tools or commands. Not too many, otherwise its hard to remember all of them. I had problems with overlapping Markups. Therefore I use F1 to hide all markups with a single button, even while using different tools, without anything in the way. After completing the…
This week, we're highlighting how to hide markups in Bluebeam Revu temporarily! Temporarily hide markups in Bluebeam Revu to quickly surface and interact with markups whose visibility is obscured by overlapping markups. Here's how to: Hide Markups: Right-click the markup(s) you want to hide on the document or from the…
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…
This week, we're highlighting the Flatten tool in Revu! Flattening lets you lock in your markups, making them a permanent part of your PDF. It’s a great way to finalize documents and ensure that all annotations are secure before sharing. Do you or your team use the Flatten feature in Revu? What benefits have you…
A lot of features and tips for using this community have been buried so here are some that may be relevant for our newer members. How Ranks work (ribbon next to your name) starting with Beginner up to Genius. https://community.bluebeam.com/bluebeam-community/discussion/145/bluebeam-community-points-rewards-program
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
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…
This week we’re highlighting the Overlay Pages feature. This tool allows you to compare two or more documents by overlaying them, highlighting differences and changes with different colors. It's perfect for identifying revisions between versions of drawings. Overlaying documents can help you catch changes that might be…
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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…
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.…
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…
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…