Importing .XML/BAX file into Bluebeam to create makrups automatically

I am trying to import the data through .xml/.bax into bluebeam to automatically create markups (such as area measurement). The original data is in excel having room names, areas, and so on. But it was not successful. does anyone know how to do it/. or will it be a new feature from Bluebeam

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Thomas Luedke

I've looked into this a little and the markup files do not contain enough information to reconstruct pdf markups. The information about the size and location of the markup is tied up in these <Raw> tags:

What you need is something that operates on the pdf itself or reverse engineers the encoded data in the raw tag. Both require a good amount of coding knowledge. The import / export functionality of Revu seems only allow for transferring markups from one Revu - marked up PDF to another. You can probably modify some of the data in the xml/bax file though like colors, names, and custom columns but I don't think you can build markups from scratch with this method.

Bing Li

Thanks. This is unfortunate. Hope bluebeam will develop this functionality in the near future.

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