Download singe files from studio sessions

Jon Ahlgren · 2025-06-02T06:43:37+00:00

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Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way to do collaborative P&ID markups with multiple colleagues using Bluebeam. We would like to do real-time collaborative markups of P&ID:s without having to check files in and out and then being able to download one or more files from the session to send to other disciplines, without having to end the session.

I have in my limited experience with Bluebeam seen that it is possible to download copies of individual files from a project, but there the files needs to be checked in and out by single users so real-time collaborative editing is not possible. This is on the other hand possible in a session but the only way I have found to download files from a session is to end it and download all files which is not an option. Does anyone know of a solution to this that I may have missed?

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Micah Lindstrom

When you have a Studio file open, you can go File → Save As to save it to your computer including all markups. I use this for exactly the scenario you're talking about, to send an offline copy of the latest version of the file to colleagues in other disciplines without Bluebeam.

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Jes Stafford

Why not invite the other disciplines to the BBSession?

Micah Lindstrom

A number of reasons not to invite them to Bluebeam

They aren't interested because:
1. At our org, installing Bluebeam requires manager approval due to the high cost per seat. Manager approval can take a day or two, but they want access to answer their question within an hour
2. Bluebeam Revu 20 has a learning curve, small but not insignificant. People are generally confused when they open it for the first time, requiring me to onboard them and get them comfortable with it. E.g. finding out how to join a studio PDF ("other session" tab within "studio" tab), finding the button to re-join a session after rebooting the computer (documents pane within "other session" tab within "studio" tab), being confused by the scrollwheel zooming by default instead of moving between pages (like these folks), discovering that the "work offline" popup is critically important and if you accidentally click "work offline" and don't restart anything for weeks you might be working offline and not seeing the latest updates for literally weeks (like this post), and other things I'm probably forgetting.
I'm not interested because
1. I don't want to provide ongoing user support for yet another person. I can't say no to helping people out.
2. They don't need to see or make live edits, they literally just need a quick reference for an hour or so.

Jon Ahlgren

Thank you for the answer, this was exactly what I was looking for!

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