Importing From Excel

Jacob.Ranada · 2025-02-13T00:25:00+00:00

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Hi,

I wanted to know if there could be a way to import a list (column) from Excel into Bluebeam turning each item into an individual markup (callout box). For example, in this attached file, I would like everything under "Permanent Label ID" (column J) imported into a Bluebeam drawing (floorplan) I am marking up. The number of Label IDs could range up into the thousands, and sometimes there are more texts in each Label ID, which can be very tedious to type in.

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Luke Shiras

I see the need for something like this, but importing the list is only part of the problem.

What would be the ideal workflow for something like this? You have a list of "labels" (101-1-A) to "tag" (text box) on your drawing, but how would you like to apply that?

Say you've imported the data for your labels, how do you want to get them onto the drawings? Is it a tool set item with a pulldown list? Would it be individual tags that get imported onto the current page you then drag around to various sheets? Or maybe a master list/table that you select from to make your tag?

What if you have a list like yours where they are used only once vs a list where they are model numbers and get used repeatedly? How would that look different?

Jacob.Ranada

Thank you for your quick response. Ideally, having the list of labels applied to a tool set with a pulldown list would be good. Or something like how we can make sequences to text boxes because I would also go down that list and place the labels at each outlet location.

On a side note, I use callouts to label an outlet location. An issue I see though, is that typically there are more than (1) cable to an outlet location.

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