[Doug McLean]

Makes you wonder if many of these are the reasons that Bluebeam Cloud really hasn’t taken off like they thought it would.
People want their software to work, not be glitchy.

[Doug McLean]

I’ll have to find some time to watch this one.
The problem with this being the middle of the work day is that well, I have to work… lol

[Doug McLean]

this is new

[Doug McLean]

it seems that Bluebeam has also applied a fix for this in the first update for Revu 21.

Its #5

[Doug McLean]

Welcome to the Brainery.

Care to share a little more info on what you do and how you’re using Revu?

[Doug McLean]

Chances are, someone else has opened it previously and their custom columns are already with the PDF.

To save yourself some effort, you can set up a quick macro to import your custom columns. (If you have Extreme/ Complete)

[Doug McLean]

You will need a second area markup, but you won’t need another Column.

You could do a second custom column, ‘material 1’ ‘material 2’ but I’m not too sure how any value associated with the material would play out in that scenario.

Run an experiment

[Doug McLean]

I just checked this and it worked out fine.
I set a Material 1 and a Material 2 Custom Column and gave them each a value.
Then I build a total column with the formula (Measurement*Material 1)+(Measurement*Material 2)

To save yourself some headaches, I would put your materials and their cost into a csv file for easy import.

[Doug McLean]

I like the Lunch and Learn idea. I should schedule one of those.

One thing I’m going to do is go way back to the old TWI methods.of training where you show quick, show slower with some explanations, and then show again with more explanations and more whys. That method has worked for decades, yet we abandoned it.

I used it with our previous Estimator and she was fully up to speed in 6 weeks.

[Doug McLean]

When I create a custom column, (for example a specific Part Number) can I then assign that text to show up as a Caption on my takeoff? Right now when I enable Show Caption and click Edit the only options I see are Label, Length, Depth, Wall Area, Rise/Drop – can I add any other values to this pickable list? – Most likely not. These are embedded tools in Revu, I don’t see a way to add them. Maybe a feature suggestion?

Several times after completing my color coded takeoff and printing to a color PDF in Bluebeam when I open the resulting file it shows up as Greyscale in Bluebeam, but in other PDF readers it shows up color as expected. Any thoughts on why this is happening? –

Why are you printing to PDF after you’ve done your markups? It’s not necessary.

[Doug McLean]

profiles, custom stamps,… anything like that should also be exported.
You can also Export your Preferences for Import into the new computer

[Doug McLean]

One of the headaches with the markups list is that there is no if statement available.

The work around is get the data to Excel or some other estimating software and do the math there.

[Doug McLean]

keep learning David, you’ll get there

[Doug McLean]

its pretty easy to send feedback… Help> Make a Suggestion, it will do the rest.

Several of us have made suggestions, on various things. One of the few I’ve suggested actually came to fruition, which was the ability to set scales to multiple pages at the same time. We’ve only been able to do this since Revu19.

You’ll find macro’s in Revu MUCH easier to do than than Excel. You don’t need to learn VBA for one. They’re much simpler.

I wholeheartedly agree that something as simple as your custom columns could be a quick popup box, but setting up a quick macro and making it part of your workflow is actually quite simple. Bluebeam likes to say that they support Estimators, but honestly, they focus more of their support towards field ops and collaboration with Architects, Engineers and GC’s IMO.

[Doug McLean]

Firstly, you have to have Extreme/ Complete

Then you need to have this document https://support.bluebeam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bluebeam-Script-Reference-2018.pdf

Now go to the Help menu for Using Scripts in Revu… it will walk you through everything you’ll need to know (there’s even a link the Script Reference I posted above)

Good luck