Great idea to set the monthly reminder @Vince 😎

Good question @troy-degroot !

We set the scale on each page individually and then place a measurement on the visual scale bar to confirm the setting and indicated scale are correct.

At this point 2 of the 3 of us on our estimating team are using the custom tools that I have built. This is working well for the 2 of us that are using them. Still trying to get our head estimator to use them… 😎

I’ll keep you posted @troy-degroot !

I’ve attached a quick preview of what we have created in Sketchup. Goal is to take this into a 3D PDF to share with our extended team and our customer.

Has anyone generated an IFC file using Trimble Sketchup that you have been able to use to create a 3D PDF? We’ve been modeling a foundation excavation in Sketchup Free, but would need the “Pro” subscription to have the export capability.

Welcome to the Brainery @maxskewes

I’m not familiar with the window toolset (I work on the Civil side of the business), but you might consider making a few tools of your own that give you exactly what you need for your workflow.

The process is really quite simple:

1. Place a count measurement

2. Update your Subject and Label on the Properties…

Read more

No worries @dchambers ! I appreciate that you took the time to respond. 😎

Glad to be of assistance @dchambers !

Out of curiosity, seeing your response to @troy-degroot , is there a reason why you wouldn’t simply apply 6 markups where you see them being needed in the elevation view? This is what I do with pipe fittings. That way our project manager can not only see the count, but also where I saw the pieces being…

Read more

Interesting question @dchambers – had to think about this for a minute.

Something that might work for you is to use the “multiply” tool.

Sequence would work like this:

1. Apply a count markup

2. Select the markup, right click and choose “Multiply” from the popup menu

3. Enter the number of copies of the markup that you need

– note that if…

Read more

Your videos are a great introduction to the functionality @Vince !

For those who haven’t seen them yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8AkXr3rUQ

One question Vince – In the Part 2 video at about the 2:00 mark does the “Ctrl” key launch the “magic wand” functionality? What you are doing here – reusing…

Read more

Welcome to the Brainery @jjmurphy

Something to consider when “looking” for pre-built tools is how you will use them in your workflows. Our custom tools probably wouldn’t be useful for you as they are tied to the item database in our estimating software. Further, we have a Power Query “data wash” step that prepares the markup data for…

Read more

Very cool @Vince !

Something I’m curious to see is how the “magic wand” works with custom columns and such. Hopefully it is more powerful than the current format painter…

Maybe @troy-degroot that will be a future upgrade. Could work similarly to the way you can assign your custom markup tool with dynamic fill.

Until then I think @Vince has the “working” solution with the “magic wand”. Still potentially a 2 or 3 click process, but if you are saving dozens of clicks on a markup by re-using the geometry you…

Read more

Thank you for the feedback @Vince ! Looking forward to seeing how this impacts our workflows. 😎

Made a few minutes to watch last week’s Morning Coffee Review recording.

Bluebeam’s Luke Prescott was @mechave ‘s guest. At about the 49:00 mark Luke demonstrated the “Offset as a” feature. This looks as if it has amazing potential as a time saver.

Now I’m…

Read more

I’ve had this happen a couple of times over the last month or so – nothing this week though.

What version of Revu are you running @bb-user ? I’m still hanging back in Revu 21.6.

I haven’t kept track of what I’ve been doing when it shuts down @troy-degroot – or which files. Basically too frustrated when it shuts down to take notice!

Might have to carve out a few minutes for that MCR… 🍿😎

We have a local Civil Site Design firm that consistently distributes what appear to be scanned PDFs. Part of this may be that they are applying a wet seal and signature, but even their unsealed documents appear to be scanned – or at least are what I believe is called a “raster” print rather than a “vector” print.

Basically this renders many of…

Read more

So I had my <s style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Guinea Pig</s> Intern install 21.9 on his laptop (backup machine) and the line weight of the ghost line issue appears to have been resolved, but he has noticed what appears to be another bug. For some reason his curser seems to jump out of the search window on the tool chest…

Read more

Good morning. I’m working in Revu 21.6 at this point and have been hesitant to move off that version due to some of the issues I’ve seen posted about 21.7 and 21.8. So, the question remains if those issues have been addressed in Revu 21.9?

The main one I’m hung up on is the “thick” working line when applying markups. In 21.6 the “ghost…

Read more

In case you missed it I highly recommend that you attend @Doug McLean ‘s webinar this afternoon:

Supercharge Revu Data; Clean & prepare data exported from PDF’s for external use | Live Bluebeam Webinar Part 1

Registration is available at:

Supercharge Revu Data; Clean & prepare data exported from PDF’s for external use | Live Bluebeam Webinar Part 1

I time you invest in learning from Doug…

Read more

@Vince do you get many “aren’t you that guy in the video?” questions???? 😎

Great questions on Legends @maryann-campos !

Removing a legend is pretty straight forward – it’s similar to your other markup. Simply select the legend and tap the delete key. 😎

Thank you for the suggestion @Vince

Tried toggling the Disable Line Weights on and off – no change

Tried adjusting the dimming – no change

A few additional notes:

He is running Revu 21.8.

I am running Revu 21.6.

The issue is present when we open the file on either machine.

Other files are displaying linework without issues.

When we open a copy of the original file (without markups) all of the linework is visible

Fortunately, none of his takeoff work appears to have been lost,…

Read more

One of my coworkers stopped me in my tracks this morning. The original linework on a 31 page takeoff file is not displaying. His takeoff markups are there, but none of the original linework is visible.

We checked to ensure all the layers are on – which they are.

Does anyone have other ideas?

Haven’t come across this yet @troy-degroot , but good to know!

😎

He obliviously doesn’t spend any time on #UChapter2.com 😎

Learned something here @troy-degroot ! I hadn’t really thought of it before, but just because the scale of the drawing is Metric, the tool can measure in Imperial. That’s pretty slick.

For @bb-user if you have already applied markups using tools that measure in Metric units, but you are looking for Imperial values you could select all of…

Read more

That’s an interesting question @bb-user

Have you considered adding a couple of custom columns with a conversion factor and a formula to apply the factor to the metric measurement for conversion?

I’d expect @doug mclean might have some thoughts on this one as he works with both metric and imperial measurements on a regular basis.

Noticed something interesting and potentially troubling this morning. Make sure you check were you are saving your markup summary! Typically – say when you are printing a document to a PDF and you are about to overwrite an existing file you will get a popup message stating that the file already exists and asking if you want to overwrite…

Read more

Found another interesting feature of this repeatable cutout tool. To date I had only used this when copying a cutout inside of the same measurement. Turns out you can use the Cntrl-Drag feature to copy the cutout from one markup to another! Unfortunately it does have some limitations – doesn’t appear that you can drag the cutout to other…

Read more

Thank you @troy-degroot !

Happy Holidays to all and best wishes for a healthy 2026! 🙂

Sorry, nothing to add here, but will be watching to learn…

🍿🙂

Had a plan set to use this repeatable cutout tool again today. Reminded me of this thread. Replying so that newer folks can be aware of this feature!

Welcome to the Brainery @stigw

What type of arrows are you hunting for?

Had another update today – he had previously been on 21.7. The wide “as applying markup” highlight is very annoying. Thinking I’m staying in 26.1 for a while…

One of our guys updated to 21.8. So far so good. Appears that they fixed the issue with the area markup where the shading was covering the linework as you applied the points. The edge line that it is leaving as you select your boundary still appears to be a bit wide though…

Appears that Revu 21.8 was released overnight. Has anyone installed it yet? Any issues? I see that @dhwalkellc has posted elsewhere that the issue with how the area fills were shown while applying a markup has been fixed, but not much other chatter yet…

What is the customer’s use case @troy-degroot ?

How do they use the lines in their workflows?

The image is taken from Revu – so it is possible to create a line along the lines of what you are hunting for…

Unfortunately, it isn’t one line, it’s actually 4 copies of the same line, with different custom line styles stacked on top of each other…

The lines styles are configured as follows:

Dash, Space

Space, Dash

Dash, Space with…

Read more

Very little is “impossible” in Bluebeam. Painful at times? Absolutely! 🙂

Unfortunately @Jeff.Collins I may have overstated some of the functionality of the “Stitching” feature that is being added. Since my comment above I’ve heard that, at least in the Beta version, that the Stitching feature does not maintain the layers and such – basically it is just automating the process that has been discussed previously…

Read more

Great ideas @troy-degroot , thank you for the suggestions.

I’m so comfortable using my current custom tools/columns that I forget that I could simply add a few more, or create a different profile for this type of work. Thank you for the reminder! 🙂

That’s a good approach for a conceptual estimate @Vince and I probably should have gone that way. I ended up using Sketch to Scale and Multiply Markups to get some general layout. Went to good old Excel in the in end to extend out my bar count and length. Got it done and the client seems pleased at this point so that’s the important part! 🙂

Anyone using Revu to takeoff rebar? Working on a conceptual estimate for a box culvert so I don’t have a detailed bar list from a design drawing. Aiming to get total length of rebar so I can develop a total weight. Straight bars aren’t a problem as I can lay them out in a plan or elevation view. Bent bars are a bit more challenging. …

Read more

I’m seeing a Claude prompt in a future @lizlarsen post that removes all the “extraneous Sheets bookmarks” and created nice neat bookmarks and page labels…

🙂

Agreed. Perhaps, if Claude can be prompted to create the takeoff markup accurately, the solution is as simple as having Claude re-do that part of the takeoff.

Until then it’s probably up to Tom, Dick or Harry to re-do that portion of the takeoff. 🙂

I always thought it was odd that I wasn’t able to reorder layers in the “layers panel”. Turns out you can reorder them after all, but there is a catch – you cannot reorder layers if you have the display set to “Show Layers On Page Only”. Once I disabled the filtered view I could click and drag the layers around as I saw fit. 🙂

I wonder if this is a good use case for Claude????