March 28, 2022

Preferences in Bluebeam Revu 20

After we customize our interface, we can adjust our preferences to expedite our workflow. There’s a setting for nearly every aspect of Revu, including one that automatically resizes a text’s box around its text. This is the second part of our three-part series titled “The Interface & Navigation of Bluebeam Revu 20”. Please find links…

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Ariel Rejtman

March 28, 2022

The Interface of Bluebeam Revu 20

When using Bluebeam Revu for your first time, your interface (Profile) will be missing some key features and useful shortcuts. This tutorial is a guide for new users of Revu that want to understand how to modify their side-panels, shortcuts, and toggle between key features of Revu. This is the first part of our three-part…

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Ariel Rejtman

January 27, 2022

Cost Analysis & Quantity Takeoffs with Bluebeam Revu

Quantifying hundreds of items and determining the cost of multiple measurements can be time-consuming and daunting. In Bluebeam Revu, we can use our Markups List and Custom Columns to automatically calculate, organize, and keep track of thousands of markups. Our markups contain tons of data that allow us to categorize them and “sort” them into…

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Ariel Rejtman

January 19, 2022

Manage your Auto-Complete Entries in Bluebeam Revu

When we type data for “Subjects”, Labels, Authors, and other categorizations, the entries are stored in a special function called the “Auto-Complete List”. We can find this in our Preferences, and this list can save us time when assigning certain information to our markups. Since categories are case-sensitive, we can accidentally add extra spaces or…

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Ariel Rejtman

January 13, 2022

The Action Recorder in AutoCAD

Performing tedious and repetitive tasks in AutoCAD can be time-consuming. Thankfully, AutoCAD has a powerful tool called the “Action Recorder”, and it allows us to automate a sequence of tasks that can be “repeated” when necessary. Most commands work well with the Action Recorder, and the Command Line is a great way to use it…

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Ariel Rejtman

January 5, 2022

Convert DWGs into DGNs with AutoCAD

While AutoCAD allows us to work with DWG files, there are times when we need to convert our DWGs into DGN files in order for them to be compatible with other CAD programs. The “Export” tool allows us to do this with tons of customization and keeps a lot of our data. References can be…

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Ariel Rejtman

December 3, 2021

Create Wipeouts with AutoCAD

After drawing and compiling thousands of objects that constitute our construction documents, there are instances in which we need to hide certain portions of our sheets without deleting their contents. We can do this with Wipeouts in AutoCAD. While it’s quick to create wipeouts from scratch, it’s actually more efficient to use existing polylines and…

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Ariel Rejtman

December 2, 2021

Create Page Labels with Bluebeam Revu

If our projects have hundreds of pages, it can be tedious to label each page manually. Luckily, Bluebeam Revu has a powerful tool called “Create Page Labels”. It allows us to use our existing bookmarks or a common region on our pages to automatically detect vector data and label each page accordingly. If we simply…

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Ariel Rejtman

October 6, 2021

Decrease your PDF’s Size with Bluebeam Revu

Sending PDFs and submittals via email can be complex and tedious if you’re sending files larger than 20mb. Instead of sending multiple emails or using a file-sharing website/program, you can reduce the size of your PDFs with Bluebeam Revu. Not only can you compress your PDFs based on a simple quality slider, but you can…

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Ariel Rejtman

September 28, 2021

Change your Bluebeam ID in Revu

When we initially create our Bluebeam ID and login to Bluebeam Studio, we can choose our username. We might want to change it to reflect our company’s standards, and we can do so from within Revu’s Preferences. We can easily change our Bluebeam ID in Revu. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com.

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Ariel Rejtman