🗓️ May 2025 Challenge - Skills in Bloom!

Hi everyone!

It’s the perfect season for growth, and this month’s challenge is all about letting your skills blossom! Whether you’re exploring a tool you’ve never used, learning a shortcut that saves time, or leveling up an existing workflow, we want to hear about it.

What’s one Bluebeam skill you've recently learned or plan to explore this month? Share what you tried, how it helped, and the impact. Your insight might just help out a fellow community member.

🏅 Recognition 📈

Participants will earn a unique challenge badge and points to help level up in the community!

🤝 Share & Comment 💬

Post about a feature, workflow, or habit you’ve learned or improved.
Join the conversation! Ask questions, offer encouragement, and pick up fresh ideas from fellow community members.

📚️ Resources 🧠

https://www.youtube.com/%40BluebeamInc/videos

https://university.bluebeam.com/revu-essentials

https://support.bluebeam.com/revu/how-to/how-to.html

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Darbie

I am working on expanding the Bluebeam Revu training in a recorded and reviewable format for the firm I work at for part of our internal 2025 goals. I have been making small, 4-8 minute training videos called BugBites. (my last name is Roach so it’s on brand😊)

The one I will be researching and creating this month, or skill seed I am planting per Mays challenge, is the highly requested Overlay Pages feature. I’m excited to see how this can fit into and improve our QA/QC workflow!

Brandon Costlow

For the last month or so, I've been working on developing onboarding training in Bluebeam. The goal is to bring in new foremen or project managers, and teach them how to use our company workflows to manage common tasks of their new job roles. Along the way I've developed a dashboard for sharing my notes, videos, and more. Before this, I never used a dashboard, but I've been having fun learning and exploring ways to streamline what I provide these guys.

I just can't wait for some of the features in the Beta program to get released so I can have fun teaching those new features too. :)

Shaya Birnbaum

One of the first things I do when new drawings come in is add a standardized header and footer to every page. I created a custom template in that includes the project name and the date the drawings were received. This helps keep our files clean, consistent, and easy to reference, especially on fast-moving jobs.

The best part? Bluebeam has a powerful feature that lets me apply these headers and footers to multiple documents at once, even if they aren’t open! The option to select a document, an entire folder, and even choose to include subfolders, is a huge time-saver when dealing with large drawing packages.

Jes Stafford

This year I am focused on:

Force multiplying the benefits of Bluebeam features like Studio Sessions and Sets through office wide adoption and
Improving our coordination effectiveness and efficiency with more defined workflows and best Bluebeam practices rather than forcing hard copy habits into PDF reviews.

Studio Sessions has become our go-to coordination and review tool for progress sets and consultant sheets. Bluebeam webinars share some great ideas I am implementing. Having a session "playbook page" is my favorite. Adding that cheat sheet to the session gives all participants a starting point on how to best markup the set, including callouts formatted for each discipline that they may click to SET AS DEFAULT or ADD TO TOOL CHEST as they begin their review. That page is reviewed in a Session kickoff meeting and each team leader is asked to introduce the playbook page to any new team members that might join after the kickoff.

Workflows centered around the markups list have been a bit more difficult to implement. People are still inclined to use the yellow highlighter to mark through comments they have addressed (had copy habit). This practice, along with multiple markups for a single comment (like an arrow and a text box rather than adding a leader) clutter the markups list and make it less useful. I am encouraging people to set status of markups to complete and use markups list filters to screen back all markups that have been completed. It surprises me how difficult it is to try and change these habits. I think it is because I am trying to do it on the fly rather than holding a training session as part of a more structured effort.

We are using Sets for CA Record and Markups - there is another post on that I will link in a reply comment.

Thank you @Darbie @Brandon Costlow and @Shaya Birnbaum for sharing YOUR Mad Skills!

Jes Stafford

Post: SETS FOR CA -

Using Bluebeam Sets for CA Stick Set/Record Set - Bluebeam Community

Myranda Kelly

I have been getting into the habit of processing OCR on all my major files to save myself some headaches down the road when needed to find info quickly. When dealing with old plan/file scans on the daily, being proactive saves me oodles of time. OCR for the win!

Anthony Baca

When you search for a detail, put a space between the detail and the page number.I'm looking for 3/S-502, and if you enter this, you get nothing. You type in S-502, and you get the list of all. Next time enter a space between. It will only show that detail. I have not found a way. If they have 13/S-502, it will find the "3" & S-502.3 S-502

3 S-502

Marco M

The Skills in Bloom challenge has officially come to a close!

Thank you to everyone who participated and shared the new skills and techniques you explored in Bluebeam Revu. Your willingness to learn and share helps the entire community continue to bloom! 🌱

Stay tuned for the June challenge - Revu Remix is up next!