Bluebeam in 3 Hours

In this section, we will look at opening Revit and Word, and then use the Bluebeam plugin to print PDFs.

   •  Open Word and look at creating a PDF

   •  Create a PDF in Navisworks

   •  Get a brief about Revit and start creating a PDF

Here, we shall look at how settings are an important part of Bluebeam and its ability to work fast.

   •  Open the add-ins setting in Revit and learn some of the options

   •  Explore Navisworks and its options

   •  Look up a word and its settings in it

Bluebeam has great templates and great tools to create templates. So, we look at how to use and create these templates.

   •  Look at a new PDF from the templates

   •  Go through the different tools in creating a template

   •  Save that template for future use

We will take a look at how Bluebeam not only prints 2D PDFs, but also prints 3D PDFs.

   •  Create a 3D PDF in SketchUp

   •  Look at the different tools we can use with the 3D PDF

   •  Create 3D PDFs using SketchUp and Revit

Here, we shall look at creating page labels, which is an important step in efficiently managing and navigating Bluebeam PDFs.

   •  Look into the thumbnails panel

   •  Create page labels

   •  Look at the updated labels

We use the annotation tools to add text, lines, clouds, and so on, which is an important part of Bluebeam’s functionality.

   •  Look at the different annotation tools we can use

   •  Add the different annotations

   •  Explore the Markup list

In this video, we will look at the different measurement tools in Bluebeam, that we can then place on a drawing to view.

   •  Look at the different measurement tools

   •  Look at adding the different measurements to the drawings

   •  Add check marks that we then can view in our Markups list

To make Bluebeam as efficient as possible, you can edit the settings for each item, and then save them for future use on other projects.

   •  Add some elements to the drawing space

   •  Look at the different properties that we can change

   •  Understand what we changed and updated with our setting changes

Sometimes it is better to manage and see our changes and updates in a different format such as Excel, which we shall use to schedule the quantities in the project.

   •  Open Bluebeam and Excel, so that we can schedule our Markups

   •  Add some Markups to the drawing, that we will be able to look at in Excel

   •  Move to Excel and look at the link quantities tool

Drawings, at times, get cluttered with Markups. We can manage the same using the Markups list in Bluebeam.

   •  Add some Markups

   •  Open the Markup list panel, where we can change different settings

   •  Go through the different ways to organize our Markups

There needs to be some work done before we compare documents. Here, we briefly talk about what we need to do, to do so.

   •  Open two different drawings

   •  Ensure that drawings must be of the same size or calibrated to one another

   •  Go through the drawings and explore some functionality

Here, we look at the side by side function within Bluebeam. We can then use the tool to effectively review the drawings.

   •  Open two PDFs

   •  Look at splitting the screen for the side by side function

   •  Look at using the tool to review the drawings

Comparison is a great function in Bluebeam, that will compare two drawings and then, automatically annotate the differences.

   •  Browse to the comparison button

   •  Work through the settings and review the tools output

Overlay is a great function. It is different in a way that you are not annotating the drawings separately, but you are just identifying the differences between the drawings.

   •  Browse to the tool

   •  Work through the settings

   •  Review the drawings and identify the differences

Drawings can have a lot of information on them and sometimes, we miss things when we manually go through the PDFs. That is we the ‘search for symbols’ tool come in handy.

   •  Open a drawing

   •  Open the search panel

   •  Use the search tool to search for the window tags in the drawing

In this video, we will look at the tool set overview.

   •  Look at the different tool sets

   •  See how they work

In this video, we will look at creating tools and legends.

   •  Look at creating tools and legends

In this video, we will learn about text search.

   •  Learn how to search text on the PDF

   •  Learn how to put check marks among others

In this video, we will look at running OCR.

   •  Understand how OCR works

   •  Count the tools

In this video, we will look at how to use count tool.

   •  Learn to count elements on a PDF

   •  Perform visual search of elements to count

In this video, we will see how to use reports.

   •  Learn the steps to generate a report

In this video, we will look at importing report data.

   •  Learn to import report data

In this video, we will look at exporting spaces from Revit.

   •  Learn to export spaces from Revit

In this video, we will look at how to set up a report.

   •  Learn the steps to set up a report

In this video, we will use sessions to collaborate on the Project.

   •  Learn to use sessions to collaborate

Projects is great way to collaborate on a Project, through its entire lifecycle. We will talk about Bluebeam Projects and their uses.

   •  Open Bluebeam

   •  Look at a Project that has been set up

   •  Learn how to use it

Projects is great way to collaborate on a Project, through its entire lifecycle. We will talk about creating a new Project.

   •  Sign into Bluebeam Studio

   •  Create a new Project

   •  Look at the interface

Projects is great way to collaborate on a Project, through its entire lifecycle. We will talk about adding PDFs to a Project.

   •  Open and sign into the Bluebeam Studio

   •  Drag some PDFs directly into the Project

   •  Learn to open the required PDF

Projects is great way to collaborate on a Project, through its entire lifecycle. We will talk about adding people to the Project.

   •  Open and sign into Bluebeam Studio

   •  Open the Project invitation dialog box

   •  Go through few options for adding people and groups

Projects is great way to collaborate on a project, through its entire lifecycle. Setting permissions is an important step in managing a Project.

   •  Open the Project setting dialog box

   •  Look at the general, user access, permissions, and folder permissions

   •  Look at editing some of those options

We will learn and brush up what we learnt throughout the course.