Bluebeam Tips & Tricks

  • Bluebeam Tips & Tricks

    Posted by Mary Ann Campos on February 11, 2026 at 12:36 pm

    I am having some difficulties creating a legend. Can you please remind me how to do so at your earliest convenience?

    I appreciate your help in advance.

    Mary Ann Campos replied 16 hours, 12 minutes ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Troy DeGroot

    Organizer
    February 11, 2026 at 12:54 pm
    Points: 28,107
    Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I

    Great question @maryann-campos, and welcome to the Brainery!

    There are a couple of different ways to create a Legend.

    1. select all the markups on the drawing, right-click, and select Legend > Create New Legend. This will create a legend of only the material you selected. You don’t have to select all of them, just one and it will report the other instances of the same tool.
    2. Once you have all you tools organized in Toolset, click the Properties Gear to the right of the Toolset header. Go down to Legend > Create New Legend. I like to do it this way, because it will create a legend of everything in that Toolset, but only the ones you use.

    Hope this helps! Thanks for asking, so future answer seekers can search and find what they need.

    • Mary Ann Campos

      Member
      February 11, 2026 at 1:13 pm
      Points: 576
      Rank: UC2 Brainery White Belt UC2 Brainery White Belt Rank

      Thank you for your fast response!

      However, this didn’t do the trick for me (user error)… Here is a snapshot of the legend that is created using the steps you provided. It does not show any information from my counts and measuments below, in the legend.

      • Troy DeGroot

        Organizer
        February 11, 2026 at 1:24 pm
        Points: 28,107
        Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I

        Do you have more than one legend created for the same counts? Sometimes that happens by accident. Bluebeam only allows the information to be in one legend; it will clear the others once you create a new one.

        • Mary Ann Campos

          Member
          February 11, 2026 at 1:30 pm
          Points: 576
          Rank: UC2 Brainery White Belt UC2 Brainery White Belt Rank

          You and I created one during our class. Would this effect my creating a new one now? If so, how can I delete the one created during our virtual course?

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