February 15, 2024
The Length & Dimension Tools in Bluebeam Revu
Interchangeable tools can help us adjust markups when needed instead of deleting them and creating new ones. In Bluebeam Revu, there’s a markup and measurement that are beyond interchangeable: They can look identical to each other. The “Dimension” markup can look like the “Length” measurement, yet we’re able to input custom data into the text…
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Ariel Rejtman
February 14, 2024
The Pan & Select Tools in Bluebeam Revu
When using a program like Bluebeam Revu “out of the box”, we tend to utilize features that are more “obvious” and “default” before delving into the alternatives and possibilities that these in-depth programs offer. One of these dualities involves the “Pan” and “Select” tools. By default, the Pan tool is always enabled when we open…
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Ariel Rejtman
February 9, 2024
Compare = Where, Overlay = What in Bluebeam Revu
Changes between revisions can be extensive and detailed, yet quite subtle. Tracking these changes could take tons of time and require us to carefully scan at least two sets of documents to confirm that specific changes were made. Luckily, Bluebeam Revu contains two functions that can cut down this comparison process into a few minutes:…
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Ariel Rejtman
January 31, 2024
REG Architects Enhances its Revit Workflows – Success Story
Customer challenge REG Architects started their transition journey to BIM a few years back, realigning their focus on Revit as a defacto platform in mid-April of 2021. In February this year, REG’s Management wanted to provide their Design Team with the opportunity to enhance their Revit Workflows and expand the team’s knowledge in areas like…
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Alan Birmaher
January 31, 2024
Prime Design Implements BIM 360 to Increase Collaboration Abilities – Success Story
Customer challenge Prime Design wanted to expand their collaborative abilities beyond the confines of the office. They wanted to enable some of their employees with more diverse schedules to be able to continue to collaborate from home and they wanted to open the door to collaborating in models shared with and linked to those used…
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Alan Birmaher
January 31, 2024
G Alvarez Studio Adopts New BIM Templates and Standards – Success Story
Customer challenge G Alvarez Studio approached DDSCAD as a legacy Autodesk AutoCAD customer, who was highly interested in adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM), while maintaining the traditional appeal of their custom in-house graphic CAD standards. Project goals G Alvarez Studio wanted to train its production staff to use Autodesk Revit (BIM) software to successfully complete…
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Alan Birmaher
January 23, 2024
CAD Standards in AutoCAD: Part 1 – Layer Translator
Join our Senior AEC Technical Specialist, James Cuervo, as he shows us how to create your own CAD Standards in AutoCAD. In this part, we discuss the Layer Translator. This is part 1 of a multi-part series that will dive deeper into this topic. Part 2:Â Click Here Part 3:Â Click Here For more information, please contact…
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James Cuervo
January 22, 2024
Multiply with Bluebeam Revu
Bluebeam Revu 21 introduced a new feature in patch 21.0.50 called the “Multiply” tool! It allows us to create offset copies of our Markups and Measurements. Not only can we specify a Markup’s rotational direction, but we’re also able to make multiple copies at specific distances from the original markup. We can see a preview…
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Ariel Rejtman
November 20, 2023
Recover, Audit, and Purge with AutoCAD
Join our Senior AEC Technical Specialist, James Cuervo, as he shares some best practices for keeping your AutoCAD files running smoothly using the Recover, Audit, and Purge commands in AutoCAD. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com.
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James Cuervo
November 10, 2023
Design Center Basics in AutoCAD
Join our Senior AEC Technical Specialist, James Cuervo, as he shows us the basics of the Design Center. This includes a safer alternative to copy and paste across sessions of AutoCAD by exporting and importing blocks. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com.
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