We have several different tool sets that 4 users in our office utilize. Recently, when you click on a tool, it changes its position in the tool set, even when the tool set is still locked.
This happens inconsistently and in multiple tool sets. If you click on a tool towards the top of a tool set, you get the lock warning for the toolset above it, as if it was trying to move the tool into a new set.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm redlining a P&ID and have another PDF that already contains the piping and instrumentation I need. Currently, I'm drawing red lines over the existing PDF, then copying and pasting those redlined elements into the new PDF.
This is quite tedious because I don't want to redraw everything. Is there an easier way to reuse the existing lines and instrumentation from one PDF in another while keeping them editable for markups?
Hello,
I've had this issue ongoing for years now and cannot seem to find a fix to it. At least 3-4x a week after I reboot my laptop, bluebeam defaults to turning text highlighting back on and completely resetting my highlight to default (not the values I have in the snapshot). How do I fix this? I am very frustrated I have to do this so many times after years of QOL updates.
I am posting because the big PDF editors going subscription-only, plus Revu 20 reaching end of support on July 31, is a real shift in how we buy and own our markup tools, and a balanced side-by-side is hard to find. So here is mine, including where each option is the wrong call.
Stay on Bluebeam (Revu subscription / Max): still the deepest set for markup plus measurement and quantity takeoff, plus Studio for live team collaboration. If that is how you use Revu, nothing below really replaces it yet. Trade-off: Windows only now, and subscription.
Adobe Acrobat Pro: cross-platform, strong general PDF, e-sign, forms, OCR. Tends to crawl on very large CAD-heavy sheet sets. Subscription.
Foxit / PDF-XChange Editor: cheaper, capable markup. PDF-XChange has a buy-once option on Windows and is good value if cost is the main driver.
Drawboard: markup-focused, works well with a pen on Windows and tablets. Subscription.
PDF Studio (Qoppa): buy-once, cross-platform, has OCR and forms. A solid general-purpose owned-licence option.
Ncored: deliberately narrow. It opens fast and stays smooth on scroll, zoom and pan on the heavy 50-200 MB+ AutoCAD, Revit, and ArchiCAD exports that make general PDF tools stall, it does markup and page management, it has a buy-once option, and it runs on Windows and Apple Silicon Mac. It does NOT do measurement or takeoff, OCR, forms, or e-sign yet. So if you used Revu mainly to measure and pull quantities, it is not your tool. If you used it to open and mark up big sheet sets without the lag, it might be.
A real question for the sub, not rhetorical: those of you actually migrating off Revu 20, what are you moving to, and was your main Revu use measurement/takeoff or just markup and review? That changes the answer a lot, and I want to hear what is holding up in real offices.
One line of disclosure first so it is on the table: I make one of the tools further down, so discount my take accordingly, and mods, please pull this if a post like it is not welcome here.
For the full context, since I flagged that I built one of these: I am a practising architect, and Ncored came out of my own office hitting a wall opening and marking up heavy drawing sets without the program stalling. I am not here to push it (it is the wrong tool for plenty of you, see above). What I actually think is worth raising is the bigger pattern: it keeps getting harder to simply buy and own a PDF tool from the big names instead of renting one forever. Happy to answer anything.
(Pricing on all of these moves around, so verify current numbers yourselves. Individual experiences vary.)
Morning everyone, from sunny QLD.
Has anyone found a permanent OFF SWITCH for those number shortcuts on tools in the toolset?
Or am i just going to continue turning it off everytime i open bluebeam?
TIA!
Has any one engaged the services online for someone to build a bunch of toolkits for them?
I am building an estimate database and need to create my toolkit to have rate codes associated with them and to be split per service i am taking off during my estimate.
I have a spreadsheet with a thousand line items for rates (mark up tools) to be built, ranging from measuring tools to count tools. This would be populated with the mark up name, colour, line thickness and rate code (custom column).
This is for hydraulic (plumbing) and civil services.
There would be a few hours in this so i am looking to outsource this to someone with proficient skills and who can do it quicker than me.
I’m the admin for our organization in Bluebeam. I’m also the finance department for our company. I’ve been asking Bluebeam to send me invoices for the past two years. Each time I’m not hold for 1-3 hours until I get a person who promises it’s fixed, but another expiration comes and goes with no email to me. In the instance where it’s a current employee, they forward the email to me if they remember. But we also have employees who left and despite the license getting moved to a current employee, the invoice email goes to the old employee (and presumably bounces).
There is no way to pay for a current license without that email so I’ve been forced to let license lapse then buy a new subscription, which means production downtime while everything updates on the Bluebeam side.
Any ideas for workarounds to Bluebeam god-awful billing?
I spent some time (surprisingly not too long) working on making bluebeam take offs transition to EJE/SMM seamlessly.
If anyone is interested I don’t mind sharing!
I plan to create a link for them via Google Drive or something. lmk
