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USBUG Q4'25 Meeting Alert! Tips and Tricks w/ Troy DeGroot!
Connect with like-minded industry peers at this exciting and interactive United States Bluebeam User Group (USBUG) meeting! USBUG is teaming up with @Troy DeGroot from UChapter2 for this exciting and interactive meeting to help you get even more out of Bluebeam Revu! Attend this 1-hour meeting for game-changing Bluebeam…
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Overlaying Markup Across Pages
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to overlay markup across pages in a way that when a change is made on one page, all the other pages update. This would be exceptionally useful when planning routes of pipes etc between floors. (Bluebeam Revu) Any help would be much appreciated!
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Zoom Scroll on Split screen tabs affecting both tabs
When I zoom on one tab the other tab is adjusted as well. I am using my mouse scroll to do this. I also just updated to the latest version of Bluebeam. Is there a fix for this? Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Locked File Issues? Me Too!
Have you ever opened a file and tried to do some annotations and takeoff and it was locked with no permissions for the viewer? Are you unable to even print it to a .pdf or affect any change to it? Boooooo! Me Too. Looking for a workaround? I Found One! Aaaannnd, You're welcome. — If you have a other workaround, please…
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Product improvement ideas
At #UNBOUND25 multiple speakers mentioned how important user input was to the development team for adding new features. Users can suggest product improvements on the "Product Feedback" section of the Bluebeam Community webpage. If you see a feature suggested that someone has already posted that would help you with your…
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Mark up a locked drawing
Several Municipalities are requesting the PDF's be Unlocked so they can mark-up and add their stamps. Much to Engineers sealed drawings, they do not want them unlocked. I tried scanning and sending them, but they are still locked. Can a blank mark-up layer be added before or after password protecting the drawing?
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How can I change the measurements?
Hi Everyone, I have been back and forth all morning trying to reset my scale sizing. it is showing my measurements in inches and ft but I need them in m2. When I then go to remeasure it just goes back to the original inches and ft. Could some one please tell me how to reset this fully as i have never seen this before.
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Advanced Overlay Options
Is there a way after using the overlay command to go back an make edits or adjustments or do you essential just have to start a new overlay command?
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✴ Feature Highlight: Creating a Hyperlink to a Snapshot View in Another PDF
Hyperlinks don’t just have to navigate to a web page; they can also jump to a snapshot view in another PDF! Here’s how: Make sure that both PDF files are open and select the one that is going to get the hyperlink so it is active. Go to Tools > Hyperlink Click and drag a rectangle on the current PDF. The blue rectangle…
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Reuse of custom line types
As I was preparing my response to @Troy DeGroot's post about custom line types I stumbled on to something that seemed odd. My original work with the custom line types was performed on my desktop at the office. When I opened the file from my laptop, I was surprised that the custom line styles that I had created weren't…
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I found a cool workaround for conditionals in custom columns
Three identical polylength markups: Markups List: I wanted a system that would allow me to choose a pricing based on the measurement itself, the depth area, or a simpler lump sum type value. I highlighted the part of the formula that does this. You can ignore the [Qty Added]. That was just so that I could have the added…
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Fire Alarm Markups for Tool Chests
BlueBeam Community I just transitioned to a new Fire & Life Safety company in the recent days. By any chance, would anyone be willing to share fire alarm set for my tool chest on BlueBeam? Or provide me with a good site to download a few good fire alarm tool chests.
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Improve the timing in producing a PDF report on BlueBeam PDF, Acrobat PDF or Microsoft PDF
The timing that it takes BB to produce a PDF drawing or diagram it takes considerably a long time, many times it does not produce the PDF report or drawing. This is unacceptable on a worldwide widely used application; many times, I print the document multiple time and never gets produced. Please work on this bug it is…
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21.7 Update
Had some associates do their Bluebeam update and now they are not able to print their pdf document to a printer. Any advice?
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Snapshot tool problem
HI all, I had been using the Snapshot tool (G) in rectangle mode without any issues, but a few days ago it unexpectedly switched to Polygon/Lasso mode. Is there a way to revert it back to the default rectangle mode? Could I have accidentally pressed a key that caused this change? I'm using version 21.7 Thanks
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✴ Feature Highlight: Add Docs to PDF
Did you know that you can add files that aren’t open in Revu! Click Add and find your desired files. If you would like to specify the page or pages of a PDF that should be included: Select the PDF and click Modify From there, you can select the desired page range. *Unflattened markups and hyperlinks are not brought over to…