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✴️ Feature Highlight: Creating the Perfect Circle
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…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Matching Colors with the Eyedropper Tool
This week, we're highlighting how to match markup colors instantly using the Eyedropper tool in Bluebeam Revu! Keeping your markups visually consistent is key—especially when teams use color to represent trades, status updates, or review comments. Instead of manually selecting the same color each time, Revu makes it easy…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Custom Stamps
This week, we're highlighting the Custom Stamps feature in Bluebeam! It’s a simple, yet powerful way to standardize approvals, reviews, and document status across your workflows. With Custom Stamps, you can create reusable stamps that automatically populate key information like the user’s name and date. ➡️Here’s how: #1 Go…
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Make Markups Easier To See, Especially for Colorblind Eyes
For anyone with color vision deficiencies, there is a way to make markups stand out from the drawing. On the menu bar select View—>Dimmer—>20% (or your choice) This fades the PDF but NOT the markups. I searched this discussion board and there were no results for colorblindness, colorblind, or color vision, so I thought I…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Quantity Link
Takeoffs and estimating can be time-consuming, but Quantity Link in Bluebeam Revu Complete helps streamline the process by linking your measurement data directly to Excel. As you update your takeoff in Revu, your spreadsheet updates automatically helping you keep calculations accurate and reducing manual entry errors.…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Count Tool
Trying to figure out how many markups are on a PDF? Ditch the manual counting and use the Count Tool! Here’s how you can count objects in a PDF: Go to Tools > Measure > Count If you want to set the Count measurement's appearance: Go to Window > Panels > Properties Now, click each object in the PDF that you would like to be…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Creating Custom Statuses
Did you know that you can set the status of any markup in the Markups list and create your own custom statuses? To create a custom status, you first must create a custom model. Click Window > Panels > Markups Then, on the Markups list, click the icon on the Status column and click Manage Status. Click Add below the Models…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Creating Layered PDFs
Did you know that you can easily create a layered PDF from a group of existing PDFs, where each will be a separate layer in the PDF? First, go to File > Create > Layered PDF Click Add Open Files to add all files currently open in Revu to the layered PDF. You can select a file and click to remove one. Comment down below: Do…
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Review Status in the All Sessions View
I do a lot of reviews for a lot of projects and because of that I utilize the "My Status" option to mark projects complete. It would be great if that indication could be brought out to the All Sessions view so I can easily see which projects I have completed. It gets pretty cumbersome to click through all the projects but…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Dynamic Fill
This week, we’re highlighting Dynamic Fill! This tool makes it easy to quickly measure irregular areas by filling them in. No need to trace every edge manually—it’s fast and helpful for area and volume calculations. How do you or your team utilize the Dynamic Fill tool for quick and accurate measurement? What specific…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Tool Set Legend
Want to make your markups easier to understand at a glance? Try adding a Tool Set Legend to your document! Let’s talk about legends and how you can make your own. A legend shows information about markups used on all or some of the pages in the document. Tool Set legends include any markups added to a document from a…
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✴ Feature Highlight: Split View
Did you know that you are able to break up your workspace into up to sixteen multiple splits that can be synchronized? Here’s how: Find the Navigation bar at the bottom of the workspace or in the View menu. To split the window vertically, click or press CTRL + 2. To split the workspace horizontally, click or press CTRL +…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Dimmer
Did you know that you can tone down or dim the content layer of a PDF to make markups easier to see? How? Just go to the View menu » Dimmer » Dim Content. The effect can be seen in this example: Set the level of dimming Select a percent from the Dimmer menu. The lower the percentage, the less intense the underlying PDF…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Thumbnails Panel
The Thumbnails Panel in Bluebeam Revu lets you easily view an entire document. You can jump between pages, rearrange them, rotate, delete, or even drag and drop. It’s a simple way to manage multi-page PDFs without getting lost scrolling. Do you use the Thumbnails Panel to manage your documents or have a tip for keeping…
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✴️ Feature Highlight: Highlighter Tool
Hey Bluebeamers! This week, we're highlighting the Highlight tool! The Highlighter tool was a popular feature discussed among Bluebeam User Group members during the GOVBUG & COBUG meeting earlier this week and thought it's a great feature to share here too! When we think of a Highlighter, we often think of the…