[Travis Shupe]

Wow! This is very interesting to see! We’ve been trying to adopt some more Bluebeam Cloud practices… but I also have been frustrated by the lack of mark-up ability! You can’t even take a scaled dimension on Bluebeam cloud!!!

Hopefully they will continue to develop and it can become more useful.

[Travis Shupe]

Hi David,

Our team has started using the Punch tool in Bluebeam cloud for some projects. There are aspects that we really like, and there are aspects that we don’t! As Troy said, it is fairly basic, and there really isn’t much customization. For instance, there isn’t even a space to include a company logo on the reports. We’ve developed a stamp that we apply to the PDF report before we send it out that creates a bit of a header with our logo, project name, date, etc.

From what I’ve seen, there are a few other tools on the market that handle Punch Lists much better… but those come at a premium. We are hoping Bluebeam continues to innovate and build on this tool!!

I will say, we’ve run into a handful of issues since using it (about 4 months now). The one issue that is still unresolved is related to the snapshots it creates on the PDF report. Each ‘punch’ is a separate page of the PDF with a small snip of the overall plan where the punch was created. You used to be able to click on that snip, and it would take you to the drawing page so you can reference where that punch is. At some point, this functionality was broken, and I have yet to hear back from Bluebeam on a resolution.

Happy to chat further if you have additional questions!

[Travis Shupe]

Hi Doug,

I’m not super familiar with custom statuses… perhaps I need to dive a little deeper. Our main issue is that we often have multiple people out in the field creating the punches, but only a single person editing the punch report when we are back in the office. Bluebeam’s current approach won’t allow us to edit each other’s markups.

Are custom statuses editable regardless of the owner of the markup?

[Travis Shupe]

Hey @troy-degroot !

Thanks for the reply! Do you think this is a feature request Bluebeam would be interested in?? Or have we tried, and they are unwilling to budge?

I hear you on the integrity of the markups – but if it was an ‘option’ that could be enabled by the owner of the session, then there is still control if you need it.

Thanks!

[Travis Shupe]

Thanks @Doug McLean – certainly seems like a good move… it would just be nice if they had plans in place for maintaining the current tools and products.

[Travis Shupe]

Thanks @DavidCutler – I’ll keep the group posted if I learn anything more!

[Travis Shupe]

Hi David,

I am a Lighting Designer. I’m not sure what you mean by the ‘Locate Me’ feature…. can you explain a little further?

[Travis Shupe]

Thanks Troy! Glad to be here!

The snapshot view was part of the PDF summary when you ‘export to PDF’. It basically created view links that would snap you to a specific part of the overall drawing. I’m attaching a screenshot from an old Punch Report – you can see the ‘5 (Snapshot View) link that is attached to this image – when you click it, it takes you to the overall plan where the punch was created. I just re-generated this same report from Bluebeam Cloud, and you can see the hyperlink that is now replacing the Snapshot View. When you click the hyperlink, it opens a new blank document/tab in Bluebeam.