Bluebeam starter - Question

Jason Clark

Hello community, I am new to using this program as well as doing this job. I am a career changer from education to this. I am pretty tech savvy but used ChatGPT to support in learning the few things I have learned in Bluebeam. I want to do the best I can in my new role. Sorry it's long :(

1. I created a tool chest but think it's a bit over the edge potentially. I also created the doors. Before I saved the doors in the tool chest my computer went to sleep and I lost all of the door tools. However, the symbols still showed up on my drawing. I am praying I got all of them back in the tool chest. Do I have to start all over to see if I get everything marked (Since it was on the drawing not on the count until I added it back to the tool chest, or does it automatically update once I add one to the tool chest?

2. Can anyone direct me to different images to build my toolbox and should I just put tools in my toolbox that are most used sizes for doors, and windows?

3. When I labeled the rooms by drawing spaces the things I put in them showed up on the materials list below. I don't see the outline though, and the color inside is very light to where I can't see it either. I don't know what I am doing wrong. When I attended a webinar, she showed us dynamic fill which seems like it would take less time versus tracing a room and hoping I get it right. This feature also did the area and perimeter. She showed up baseboards, but I have to go back and look at how to do that again.

I just want to work efficiently as well as not use a lot of time creating spaces and markups for everything. Is there a way that will help me not take hours to do this but be accurate? **I know I will get faster with time but I don't want to do redundant things.

Dan Phillips

1. I'm a little unclear on what you're asking here, but I'll give it a shot. I don't think you can "go overboard" on tool chests. They're there to make your life easier and be fully customizable, so follow your heart.
   You also seem to think that the "count" feature has something to do with a toolbox. You can access it that way, but the counts are kept in the document with the markups themselves. If you aren't looking at your "Markups List," pull that up and you can keep better track of what's going on.
   I think it may help to provide a better idea of what you're trying to accomplish. I think you're trying to draw doors on a plan and get a quantity, but I may be wrong and there may be a better way to get where you're actually trying to go.
2. I have 2 places I immediately recommend for downloading tools for Bluebeam. At https://uchapter2.com/ , there are free tools available. Troy DeGroot runs the place and is around here too. The second is architecture focused and has a small fee to get access to the tools, but they are high quality and quite useful: https://www.bbtoolsets.com/
3. Which edition of Bluebeam do you have? Basics or Core may not have access to those functions.