@bstrand I mostly haven??t printed working documents for 4 years now. All on screen. Learn, adapt, and progress.
Bluebeam Revu is great. We've been using it for several years now. You won't regret buying it.
I love blue beam, their help desk is really helpful. Tons of features I feel like people don??t throughly use enough to get the full benifit.
for general plan viewing and mark up here are a few things I recommend that I haven??t already seen?ÿ
- Snapshot function is amazing because it??s a quick way to paste information or images from one area of a plan set to another. Unlike a screen shot the snap shot function can be zoomed with out loosing pixelation I believe, you would need to look further into that claim and see if a snapshot is scalable which I believe it is.
- Hyperlinks, you can link not only using typical hyperlink format but you can also link to specific pages and views or ??places? in the plan set you are in or other plan sets?ÿ
- places, great for hyperlinks but also good as a standalone, can be used similar to bookmarks. I use places when using hyperlink especially in plan/profile views?ÿ
for quantity take offs you can use formulas in the markups columns, great for coming up with loads per truck or avgs etc,?ÿ
you can also easily export quantity take off data to excel based on mark ups but you need to have your markups labeled properly for this information to be worth while, take the time to set labels for markups at the beginning?ÿ
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hope this helps?ÿ
Some other things that I think no one else has mentioned:
- WebTabs - While this works better for some sites than others, I've found it a useful tool when visiting sites where your end goal is to download or view a PDF file.
- Plugins - If you use the Microsoft Office Suite, you can install plugins for Office, Excel, and Outlook which you can use to create PDFs. Adds some functionality to the native print to PDF. There's also a plugin for AutoCAD, and for other programs like Revit if you use that.
- I really like using Bluebeam to archive emails from Outlook. Create a PDF package of all your emails for a project.
- While having Bluebeam open, you can drag files such as Word, Excel, and images directly in to Bluebeam (drag them in to the tab bar), and the file will be automatically converted to a PDF.
- Using the Stapler to combine files directly from Windows Explorer is a useful tool.
- While I always use Sheet Set Manager for all my printing within AutoCAD, if you haven't dived in to SSM yet, using Batch Plot from Bluebeam is the next best thing.
- When plotting from AutoCAD, making sure to Include Layer Information (I think that's the setting). This allows you to manipulate layers within your PDF.
Anyone have Bluebeam and HCSS? ?ÿOr that have BB and tried HCSS? ?ÿIf you used HCSS, what did you find that was missing? ?ÿ
At the company I work for, we use HCSS. ?ÿI would like to hear some feed back.
Does anyone have a quick breakdown of what the middle (Revu CAD) Bluebeam package entails??ÿ I can't seem to tell what exactly I would be paying for here compared to the standard package.?ÿ Hopefully it's more than just the ability to print to .PDF...
Found the information I was looking for.?ÿ It's buried in kind of an obscure link at the very bottom of the front page which is odd.?ÿ Anyway, if any others are curious:
https://www.bluebeam.com/solutions/compare