How to track and keep revised sheets in combined PDF drawings.

Hi All,

I have single PDFs of my Arch., Struc. and Civil drawings. I would like to Slip Sheet new revisions of individual sheets into these plans separately and still have access to the previous revision's sheets. Is this best done through Sets or is there another way. Sets seems to be used to combine single PDFs into "one". Mine are already combined.

Thanks ahead,

Ian McLeod

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Isaac.Harned

I would say that Sets is overall the easiest way, especially when trying to overlay previous revisions. Each combined PDF will stay the same, you are jsut viewing each sheet through basically a hyperlink. When you open up that "thumbnail" from sets, it will open the entire file. If you want a full updated single PDF of the latest, you can "Select Latest Revisions" and export, or even just "Print Latest Revisions" (either as separate or combined). The other option is to just manually maintain a Current Set PDF, and have each revision in a dated folder

Jes Stafford

Agree with @Isaac.Harned . Bear in mind that any markups you make in a Set will appear in the PDF you added to the Set - so, if you want to keep a clean copy, organize accordingly.

Doug McLean

completely agree, Sets is your solution here.
There is a huge advantage with working with Individual pages in that when you're working in the Cloud, your file sizes are so much smaller so everything will open that much faster.

A couple of things to keep in mind, Sets themselves aren't supported in Studio (but there are workarounds) and when doing any kind of Markup Summary export, you always have to remember that you're working with one sheet in the file, not the whole thing so you have to load a bunch of files in for you Batch Export to work.

Any questions, feel free to ask

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Isaac.Harned

Jes Stafford

Agree with @Isaac.Harned . Bear in mind that any markups you make in a Set will appear in the PDF you added to the Set - so, if you want to keep a clean copy, organize accordingly.

Ian LHC

Thank you both. Good tip to keep a clean version.

All the best.

Doug McLean

Any questions, feel free to ask

Keith Walters

Agree I changed from combined PDF's to sets a few years ago and have never looked back. Just take care when loading in new revisions ensuring they have the correct drawing number and title. If you update the drawing number first using Auto Mark, Bluebeam will advance to the next revision number. The do the same for the Title before finishing the update. The only slight draw back is that Bluebeam Sets does not recognize Alpha revision numbers so often you cannot use the actual drawing Revision.

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