It’s intriguing to see someone’s reaction when they are realize they outplayed their hand.

I’m all for having a conversation and someone is trying to “educate” me on ‘why should I get their product’, but it happened more than once that the house of cards collapsed with a couple of rather simple questions.

Also: Way to FLEX that you’re a BUG Champion!

If you use layers on a regular basis, that’s a true gold nugget (or Royale with Cheese if you’re French).

I don’t like two things: 1. The way things are. 2. Change.

I think it’s a great idea to spread the knowledge. I remember my first steps using Bluebeam (almost 10 years ago now), I discovered I had a problem of an unsatiated appetite to learn more and improve many things from the pen and paper that was the “norm” when I joined. Many things were…

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Happy Birthday Troy!
I hope your day is spectabulous!

Hear hear!

So, here I am minding my own business taking some of Troy’s courses (Baseline Basics) when I stumbled across something that others may find useful.

If you got your profile set so markups are snapped to content, grid, markups etc, you may encountered that when trying to move a markup, or make placement adjustments to it, the snap feature is…

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Those are some good points, Doug!

I use it quite frequently to build models for submittal reviews that require layering. I find the overlay tool to be cumbersome, even with the new automation it’s not working as smoothly as I would hoped, so that’s why I prefer the snapshot.

Couple of things to add: – If you are dealing with different…

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I haven’t encountered such reference. I think there’s great potential in it to strengthen the connection between plans and spec, But unless an automatic tool is designated to make that connection, I think it will be very timely on a full scale project.

If it’s more of a limited scope, it may be more feasible.

In my opinion, it’s more important…

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Thank you all for the suggestions! Very helpful and I know it will be a huge time saver!

I think it’s a pretty silly question, but is there a way to create a ‘layer template’ that could be deployed/imported to a PDF?

For example, part of my workflow is to create overlays of buildings, so when reviewing precast, wall panels, trusses I can quickly turn layers on/off as needed. Since I have different categories, and child layers it…

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Great course @troy! I completed mine and definitely learned a few things, and refreshed on a few other things.

Couple of things that I noticed that you may want to touch on are as follows:

1. For the Crosshairs, I know you mentioned that you try not to touch too much on shortcuts, but given the fact that it’s a single button action to turn…

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Hooray!!! It looks like the layer’s properties function again, for a while the changes wouldn’t save.

Boy o’ boy it makes a big difference opening a multi-layer PDF with the layers on their best behavior and listen.

If you want to geek more on the topic, just let me know.

Hey Doug, sorry to hear the news, but hoping for a successful treatment and better news in the future.

I’m glad to hear that things are going to be ok for you guys.

I know we haven’t met in person (maybe Bluebeam will revive XCON and I’ll be able to attend and we’ll finally meat), but we communicated a lot, sharing ideas and thoughts.

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I don’t think it’s doable to add a leader to a Cloud+. I also don’t think you can group a Cloud+ with another markup.

My suggestion is that you’ll use a callout box and align the leader with the markup and group them. The limitation of that is that you can’t move the callout markup around without ungrouping.

And like David mentioned, you…

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Tory, ever since you learned Bluebeam? Umm, I thought you were born with it! LOL!

Welcome all members. It’s such a fun community!
Keep up the good positive discussions!

We’ll take a moment of silence to remember all the ideas the died under the phrase “but that’s how we always done it”…

People don’t like two things: The way things are, and change. People object change for different reasons. That can create little undergrounds of more open minded people that choose to expand their knowledge and learn,…

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Are some of the tools lost once you shut your computer off and you find yourself redoing some of the tool set parameters?

(Probably a silly question:) Do you save the toolset once you finish modifying it? Save it to the toolset and to the profile.

@Doug McLean how is the training program different in person vs. virtual training? Is it mostly the personal interaction in seeing if someone is getting it or not?

There is a barrier in hosting a digital meeting/training, it’s difficult to gauge people’s interest and attention span.

But to your core point of the thread, I think that everyone…

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Inhale… Exhale… Inhale… Exhale…

It’s such a loaded topic. In summary, it depends what’s your relationship with that person. Are you training him (officially or not officially? Supervising him? Is it a person from a complete different company that does things differently?

I think a lot of that has to do with “what is their end goal”. As…

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Thank you Vince. I think that for the time being I’ll live with it as is, without reinstalling.

Any idea why (ALL) the layers re-appear when I open a file, even though I set the Default State property for each layer to ‘Unchanged’.

I used it before and it worked, and I created a new PDF, that when I turn it on it looks like Rorschach threw-up and I need to manually turn off all the layers that I don’t need at the time.

If I understand your question correctly, you can change the display to “Detail” and add a description in the Comment area.

I think there’s a workaround it with Java. So if you can write a script, it may be doable.

I’m not surprised man! There are plenty of people that are long time users that don’t know of many of the capabilities of setting/customizing toolsets.

It gives you both an advantage and a drawback. The advantage is that you get to coach them and open their eyes to more options, and the drawback is that it takes time, and if you work with…

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Late? Nah, there’s no late to the party. That’s the nice things about the way the boards are structured here. It’s easy to focus on a broader subject and then fine-tune the search to the exact topic, and if it’s not there you create one.

Hey all! The other day I was able to open someone’s eyes regarding usage of layers.

Being contract administrator I use a lot of overlays so are more simple and some are complex. I talked to one of our spec writers who is an experienced Architect (yes, in this case he is AIA, so not just calling him an Architect, I know some people are…

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Hey @flipboy465 welcome!

How long you’ve been using Revu? What do you mainly use it for?

Hey @doug, those blogs are great! Easy to read and on point. You will probably reach different crowd posting them here and on LinkedIn, since the audience is different (I assume, not all UC2 members are your LinkedIn friends?).

Personally, in my line of work, I don’t do much estimating with Revu. I do enjoy reading more tricks and tips,…

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Same thing here. I’ve been swamped at work.

I need to do better and peel-off a bit here and there to participate here on the boards (mostly to soak the knowledge from you phenomenal people), and to watch the videos.

My add-on is try to establish the knowledge baseline, specially if you’re working with new people that you didn’t work with before, don’t assume they know or understand even things that appear trivial and basic (I know some Revu users that have ‘years of experience’, but if I talk to them about anything more than how to place a callout I…

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Thank you for the reply Vince! Do you need a separate User credentials? Or can you register your username on the UK and US servers?

Hey all! It’s been a while since I was here and quite frankly I miss this a lot.

My question today is about colab internationally. One of my coworkers (located in the U.S) was invited to a session that was created in Turkey. On the Session invitation, there’s a Session number (that looks legitimate) and a server location in Germany.

My…

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Do you typically report it as a bug to Bluebeam, or do you just deal with it as it comes up.

Troy, would a legend differentiate between the wye if you add a number (fitting size) as a text box? What I’m curious is if Travis is intended to do some quantity takeoff by placing the wyes, is he better off creating different markups for the different sizes?

Yeah, it might not be as user friendly and will be difficult to create shortcuts at…

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Hey all!
We have some fun conversations geeking over Bluebeam stuff. So I like this idea to create a sense of community, not just professional commentary on hot topics.

I’m Roye (as you guessed from my name). I’ve been in the AEC for 6.5 years.
Shortly after I started my job (Contract Admin at an Architecture firm) I realized that we under…

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@troy-degroot it would be a nice feature (specially in this group, where conversations can go in different ways) to be able to reply to the original post. Unless I missed something, it appears I can only reply to the last person who commented.

@Vince Way to live in the future man!

Mystery solved! There’s an option in the Preference menu, under Grid & Snap. There’s a Unit option, that was changed to cm’s. Changed it back to Inches, and it fixed the problem.

It was in my face, and when I read through, I glanced over it and it didn’t click.

Thank you all who tried to help. I feel like an idiot that it was such a…

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the Crop and Page Setup screen does show the “Change Media Size” in centimeters. But it doesn’t give me an option to change the default to feet.

I think I’m going to update to the latest version of Revu and see if that will help.

All my tools are set to feet and inches. Unless I’m missing something?
When I calibrated the sheet, I selected 1/8″ = 1′-0″. And that scale appears correctly on the screen, and right next to it to the left where the page size is displayed it’s shown in cm’s.

My measurement tools are all set to ft & in, but I did try to set a few of them…

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Nope, it’s set to the American language.

Hey Vince, I did look at the page setup, and I can’t change the default display from there.

Another weird thing that proves it’s connected to the laptop is that I turned on another laptop that has my license on and it’s in Imperial.

Hey Bluebeam gurus, I’m in a funk. I noticed this morning that Revu (20) changed my display to metric. I went into the Windows (11) settings and changed to Imperial. rebooted my computer and Revu still shows the sheet size in CM. The page scale is in inches, and when I dimension something it shows in Imperial.

In the attached picture you can see…

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The file I’m looking at doesn’t have bookmarks. I do have the Automatically Reorder Bookmarks checked on, but I wouldn’t think it changes the file if there are not bookmarks.

I can live with this, it’s just odd that it happens.

Hey all,
Recently I noticed that when I open a file Revu (Extreme 20.2.50) is prompting me to save the file even if I don’t make any changes to it. Any idea if it’s a settings issue, or if it’s a bug in the version?

Hey David, are those CAD markups? Or do you know if for some reason they have security on them to prevent manipulating them?

Hey Andrew and Doug. Thank you for your reply. I ended up getting into the CAD file and cleaning some stuff out of there.

I guess I was more intrigued by the fact that printing 2 pages of the file to a separate PDF inflated the file size by more than 100,000kb

Hey all,

Here’s a new one that happened to me. My coworker and I were working on building a layered document so we can review wall panel shops and truss shops.

My coworker attempted to bring a snapshot of the wall panels layout to the document and it bogged down Bluebeam. She tried that a couple of times, including bringing snapshots to the…

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Stupid question, and maybe I should try this instead of typing, but getting too late now.

How is going through the steps you listed, different than typing Ctrl+9? Or is it the same, just a single key vs. a combination of two keys?