🗓️ August 2025 Challenge - One Tool, Many Uses!

Marco M

Hi everyone!

Welcome to our August Monthly Challenge – One Tool, Many Uses!

This month, we’re highlighting the versatility of Bluebeam Revu. Some tools may seem simple on the surface, but with a little creativity they can become essential to multiple parts of your workflow. Have a tool you’ve adapted in unexpected ways? This is your chance to show how you’ve stretched the use of a single feature.

Your experience could inspire someone else to rethink how they use the tools they already know!

📝 How to Participate

Pick one Bluebeam Revu tool you use for multiple jobs or workflows. Whether by repurposing it, applying it creatively, or discovering a time-saving trick. How have you made the most of it?

🤝 Share: Post a screenshot, description, or short explanation of the tool and the different ways you use it.

💬 Discuss: Check out and comment on how others are putting their tools to work!

🏅 Rewards

All participants will earn a unique challenge badge and points to rank up in the community and increase your chances at becoming the leaderboard winner!

📚 Resources 

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

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Let’s see how far a single tool can go! Share your versatile favorite below and explore what others are doing too! 🧰

vfrench

So this may be a little off track to what the original question was asking but, this is the type of thing that you can create if you use a combination of Revu and Power Query in Excel.

When measuring an external wall, you start off with a simple area shape for a window or a door.

But an area for a window when you're a bricklayer is pretty meaningless! However, with Revu you get a few more details in the Markup List: -

We can then combine this with a table in Excel which looks like this - you will see the Subject from Revu matches a header in the Excel table: -

Power Query combines the two and you can work out all sorts of things such as: -

1. There is one markup so that is 1no dummy frame or window former
2. The lintel - with a few calculations using the figures in the blue cells of the external tables you can add the bearings and then round up to the next full lintel length.
3. The length of the cavity tray above the window and the number of weep vents required.
4. The total length of bed reinforcement required above and below the window.
5. What special works, if any, are required to the window reveals.
6. The type and length of cavity closure required.
7. If you've allocated the markup to a specific brickwork lift (see the Markup List) then this can be used in your spreadsheet too to break the works down into actual work zones.

And much much more if you require that information.

So, one markup, which is normally a single click of a button as you'll be filling in a cut out, will produce a considerable amount of data.