✴️ Feature Highlight: Creating the Perfect Circle

Angela Aff

This week, we're highlighting how to create the perfect circle in Bluebeam Revu!

➡️Here’s how:

Navigate to Tools
Click Markup
Select the Ellipse tool
Before placing the ellipse tool on your document → Press and hold Shift

…and now you have the perfect circle! 🔵

Resizing the circle is easy, too.

Select the circle
Press and hold Shift
Click any control point of the ellipse and drag

Already made an ellipse and need to change it to a circle? No problem.

Select the ellipse
Press and hold Shift
Click any control point of the ellipse

Need to change the ellipse to a circle? No problem!

Revu makes it easy to create perfectly balanced circles by pressing and holding SHIFT with the ellipse tool.

https://youtu.be/zajyNmugLtk

👇️Share with us your thoughts on creating perfect shapes in Revu:

Are you typically drawing circles for callouts, highlights, or measurements?
How do you think using Shift-lock shapes could improve your workflow and reduce rework?

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Brandon Costlow

I use it more with polylines. This is a great feature for giving confidence that your circle is an actual circle, that your square is an actual square or that your parallel/perpendicular lines are actually parallel/perpendicular, or that your resized shape held its original dimensions. I have foremen send markups showing their idea of conduit paths, and the ones that use this have clean and easily readable drawings to work with. Those that don't, have spaghetti monsters that make me question my life choices as I try to tell where one line ends and another begins or where they head from a given turn in the path.

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