Thanks for sharing David. It seems to me that when he offset, it was just a markup, but I believe you could still convert it to your custom tool after. For now anyway. Exciting times.

Hey everyone, the Behind the Build recording of Intro to JavaScript in Bluebeam is now available. Thanks @lizlarsen and @isaac-harned for sharing your wisdom with the UC2 community.

I’m still on 21.8, and I haven’t had this issue.

Was it while working with certain markups, or just random?

Are you having trouble with the same file, or does it happen no matter what file is open?

Behind the Build recording is now available! If you missed @lizlarsen teaching us about dynamic stamps, the recording is now available. Thanks again Liz, amazing as usual!

Create Dynamic Stamps in Bluebeam with JavaScript | Mastering Custom Stamps (Behind the Build)

By now, everyone has heard about the new top-shelf version called Bluebeam Max. Some great features are being added, but the opportunity to interact with Claude for AI integration is by far the most talked about. While I don’t think an official release date has been announced as of this post, what are you doing to prepare?

What are you…

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Maybe I’ll update while on vacation next week. I always hate to update in a busy training season (which seems to be more continuous these days)

I would guess they are scanning the line you said, but there is a setting when they print to select Vector or Raster. I hope it’s that simple and fixed going forward.

Hey everyone, if you didn’t know, UC2 is hosting a biweekly webinar series I’m calling “Behind the Build.” The last 2 webinars were presented by our very own @Doug McLean , showing his workflows using Revu and Power Query.

You can check out the recordings here:

https://uchapter2.com/video-category/webinars/

The next one is going to be our friend …

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I should probably update, but per typical, I wait a little while. I’m guessing I’ll be jumping straight to Max.

I don’t think this is a solution, but I really hate not having a good answer. If you use Dynamic Fill, you can pull the length measurement from the perimeter of the filled area……

It looks like you are using the Snap to Content, which would be my first suggestion. Is there any way you can measure through each doorway and use that as waste rather than getting into all the fine details of small bumpouts? Just thinking, some of those very small pieces can be very time-consuming to trace over. Others in the group might also have ideas.

You could create a custom column in the markup list for the “Unit Type”. Then create a custom column for “# Thus”, and finally a custom column for totals where you multiply all your quantities * # Thus. Adding the Unit Type simply allows you to organize your markups and keep things straight.

Welcome to the group @Courtney Ward Thanks for posting.

If you open the Forms panel, you will see that each “field” has a name. Use copy/paste so that all the fields you want to match have the same name. That’s it, super simple.

Thanks for sharing @Dwane Lindsey

Thanks for posting this @DavidCutler

Can’t wait for Part 2, March 9th

Supercharge Revu Data; Clean & prepare data exported from PDF’s for external use | Live Bluebeam Webinar Part 2

Great post. @jtoddowen There is a lot of value here. I do the same for customers when I build custom columns and tools. I also created custom buttons so they don’t have to go into the script dialog. I appreciate the time you put into this. If you ever want to do a presentation for our bi-weekly webinars or write a guest blog post, just let me know.

There’s a small globe icon in Bluebeam Revu that most users never click. If a button is hidden, how would you know?

Not because it isn’t useful, simply because no one helped them connect it to something valuable.

With one quick customization, that globe can become your personal help button.

By setting the Brainery Community as your WebTab home…

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You can delete and add legends as you see fit; it’s just referencing the data in the markups list, it doesn’t affect the data at all. Just remember, the data can only be in one legend at a time.

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.

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…

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So you’re using the Header/Footer to add text to the sheet, then using that as a tag to sort by. That’s a pretty cool way of doing it.

Sets should automatically sort by discipline when it reads the sheet number and sees the letter in front of the number. The question was asked if it could be organized by building, I assume a large development with multiple buildings. Using a tag for the building number would be an interesting test. I’ll have to play with that. Maybe…

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It’s actually for typing in any text tool like the Textbox, Callout, Cloud+, Typewriter, etc.

Second part of my answer, when you are in a command and want to pan to a different area of the document without canceling the tool, you can hold your spacebar.

There is a known issue right now in Revu 21.8 where the spacebar may not be responsive for some users. As a workaround, disable the spellcheck feature. This will resolve the issue until they fix it in the next update.

I’ll hold my response to this one.

To confirm my understanding, all the dimensions on the printed drawing are in metric, and you’re converting each one manually? I know it would be tedious to do markup measurement for each of the already dimensioned elements, but I feel like it would be faster than the math to convert them. If they are already Bluebeam measurements, you can…

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Unfortunately, that doesn’t allow them to keep the counts and work they’ve already completed. Thanks for responding with your thoughts @isaac-harned

Just in case anyone missed the mailing, a lot is going on here at UC2. Check it all out in this month’s newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/uchapter2/july-monthly-newsletter-uchapter2com-16563414

If you go to the Tools menu, all the way at the bottom, you will see Reuse. Make sure that is turned on. Also, if you go to Tools > Toolbars make sure the Status Bar is turned on. This will show a toolbar at the bottom-right of your interface, where you will see a button to turn on the Reuse Markup Tool. Some other important button on there…

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And then the next thing to watch for….. 🤣

As of just over a week ago, Revu for iPad officially retired, and Bluebeam Web and Mobile is now the supported path forward for mobile access and collaboration.

For many teams, the retirement itself was a surprise. What’s been even more challenging is that there was very little conversation leading up to the change, and even now, just days…

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Interesting find. Thanks for sharing. I can see where this would speed up common measurements.

For 2026, I plan on learning more about Task Link workflows with the GoCanvas integrations. I believe there are significant benefits to these tools working together.

As for what I feel I have dialed in, my Pinned documents, organized into categories, are working really well for me. It keeps all my documents at my fingertips when I teach or…

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I just shared a post on Bluebeam New Year’s Resolutions, but not in the “here’s a list to fix everything” sense, more as a set of reminders and areas worth pausing on.

Things like:

• How consistent our tools really are
• Whether we trust our measurements
• Tasks we repeat without thinking
• How intentionally we collaborate
• Where training might actually…

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