August 26, 2021
Quantity Link in Excel with Bluebeam Revu
Our quantities and cost-analysis can be exported to Excel and linked directly to specific markups in Revu with “Quantity Link”. This unique function works directly in Excel and allows Revu to communicate dynamic information to Excel. Quantity Link copies groups of markups and totals their data together. Multiple areas and volumes can be quantified, and…
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Ariel Rejtman
August 26, 2021
Crop Pages with Bluebeam Revu
The “Crop Pages” function in Bluebeam Revu is dynamic and flexible. We can use it to cut portions of our PDF and change the size of our page. Using the “manual” crop tool is simple and allows us to drag a box around the area that we want to keep. The dialogue box for Crop…
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Ariel Rejtman
August 25, 2021
Redactions with Bluebeam Revu
We can use Bluebeam Revu to mark specific content in our PDFs for redaction. Manually redacting content is easy, but selecting text and automatically marking it for redaction is even easier. Redactions can be customized to visually redact content, and they can also remove content from the sheet “officially”. We can also apply specific legal…
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Ariel Rejtman
August 19, 2021
Spaces in Bluebeam Revu
We can organize our PDFs with a subtle function that has lots of uses called “Spaces”. While a space isn’t a markup, it’s an asset that allows you to designate a location to be quantified and converted into an area. We can even create hyperlinks to our spaces that allow us to turn our table…
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Ariel Rejtman
July 23, 2021
Captures in Bluebeam Revu
If we have tons of photos and images that need to be associated with a callout or measurement, we can associate them with the “Capture” function. It allows us to connect to our cameras and computers to take and find pictures to assign to our markups. Not only can we assign photos to our comments,…
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Ariel Rejtman
July 20, 2021
Sequences in Bluebeam Revu
When we need to place tens of hundreds of markups, we can use the “Reuse” function to allow us to click continuously instead of having to click on the markup each time after placing it. We can take this concept one step further by turning our alphabetical and numerical markups into sequences. A sequence can…
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Ariel Rejtman
June 10, 2021
Customizing our Interface & Toolbars in Bluebeam Revu
Many programs have an interface that can be changed and customized to reflect your workflow. The tools and functions in Bluebeam Revu are extremely flexible and can be moved, hidden, and customized with a few clicks. We can add and remove more shortcuts to our current toolbars. By hiding duplicate tools and showing important tools…
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Ariel Rejtman
April 15, 2021
Quantity Takeoffs with Bluebeam Revu – Webinar
Looking to create better bids and quantity takeoffs for your next project? Bluebeam’s markup & measuring tools help us capture our project scope accurately, allowing us to submit better bids. Join our Bluebeam Certified Instructor and Technical Specialist, Ari Rejtman, as he demonstrates Bluebeam Revu’s dynamic tools for performing simple and complex cost analyses. The…
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Ariel Rejtman
March 31, 2021
New Features in Revu 20.2
This new version of Bluebeam Revu provides several new features that increase our productivity. We’re now able to save custom scales to our list of preset scales. This saves us time when switching between multiple custom scales. Likewise, our length measurements now have their own units, and they’re no longer connected to our page’s units…
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Ariel Rejtman
March 12, 2021
Two Ways to Rotate Pages in Bluebeam Revu
Rotating pages is a common practice, but there are two different ways to do this in Bluebeam Revu. One method is temporary and rotates all pages, while the other is more “permanent” and rotates specific pages and/or documents at the same time. We can quickly modify our view’s orientation by using both rotation tools in…
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