Bluebeam Revu Classes

• Bluebeam Revu Basics

• Bluebeam Document Control

• Bluebeam Extreme Forms

• Bluebeam for Estimators - Measurements and Takeoffs

• Bluebeam Revu & Microsoft Word - Document Editing, Collaboration & Comparison

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Bluebeam Revu Basics

3 Hours

 

Interface and Navigation

• Command bar and toolbars

• Hidden panels and tab Access

• Navigation and status bar

• PDF navigation

• File Access tab

• Split screen and syncing

 

Profiles and Profile Management

• Creating profiles

• Customizing toolbars

 

Markup Tools for Drawings 

• Overview of markup tools

• Scaling and rotating markups

• Customizing the appearance properties of markups

• Adding subject lines

• Inserting images using Capture

• Using the Snapshot tool 

 

Customize Markups

• Format Painter

• Adding actions to markup

• Grouping markups

 

Stamps

• Creating and applying a stamp

• Applying a stamp to page(s) from thumbnails

 

The Tool Chest and Sharing Customized Markups 

• Overview of the Tool Chest

• Properties Mode vs. Drawing Mode

• Creating a custom tool set

• Saving a custom markup to a tool set

• Sharing a tool set with colleagues

 

The Markups List for Tracking Comments 

• Overview of Markups List

• Sorting data in the Markups List

• Custom columns

• Importing comments from multiple PDFs onto your file

• Filtering data

• Setting statuses

• Creating custom status fields

• Replying to comments

• Exporting all markup data

• PDF and Excel summaries

 

Document Manipulation 

• Inserting a blank page, inserting existing page,

• Deleting and reordering pages

• Searching text

• Searching visuals

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Bluebeam Revu Document Control

3 hours

 

AutoMark and Page Extraction

• Running AutoMark to set page labels

• Setting bookmarks from page labels

• Extracting all pages to break into individual PDF’s

 

PDF Create and Organization

• Creating blank PDF and setting options

• Saving a template

• Creating a PDF from Outlook and Word

• Creating a PDF from web

 

PDF Manipulation

• Editing text

• Combining PDFs

• Sending and exporting

• Splitting PDFs

• Exporting to another file format

 

Creating a Navigable Drawing Set

• Linking a drawing set

• Vector vs. raster drawings

• Adding hyperlinks via Edit Action

• Adding links using the Links and Places tabs

 

Document Comparison and Overlay Pages

• Detecting changes with revised sets via Compare Documents

• Detecting changes using Overlay Pages

• Overlaying two differently sized sheets using Pick Points

 

Sets

• Using sets to view separate PDF files as if they are one combined file

• Setting up a set

• Viewing revision history in sets

• Compare documents and overlay pages from sets

 

Using Sets with Bluebeam Studio Projects

• Overview of Studio Projects

• Setting up a Studio Project and uploading files

• Uploading and editing a set within projects

• Inviting others and setting permissions

• Read-only mode vs. checking out

• Working offline

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Bluebeam Extreme Forms

2 Hours

Bluebeam Extreme ONLY (other versions do not have this functionality)

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Create and Edit PDF Forms

• Working in Forms Editor

• Adding form fields

• Define form field properties

• Validate form data

• Use buttons to create actions

• Collecting data from forms

 

Automatic Forms  (Extreme 2017 Only)

• Create an Automatic Form

 

OCR+

• Process text documents to make them readable and searchable

• Batch OCR+

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Bluebeam for Estimators - Measurements and Takeoffs

3 Hours

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Loading the Takeoffs Profile

• Calibration

• How to calibrate a drawing to correct scale

• Entering known scale

• Viewports

 

Measurement Tools

• Linear Tools: length, area, perimeter, volume

• Diameter, angle, radius, converting lines to arcs

• Visual Search + Count

• Adding depth to get wall area

• Organizing takeoffs by moving measurement captions

• Grouping measurements by layers

 

Creating Custom Measurement Tools

• Customizing the look of your measurement markup

• Subject line, appearance properties

• Saving a markup into a custom tool set

• Creating sequences in the tool set for sequential counting

• Sketch Tools

• Dynamic Tool Sets Scaler

 

Basic Estimation in the Markups List and Exporting to Excel

• Turning on measurement columns

• Custom columns

• Creating materials custom column

• Creating formula columns to calculate costs

• Managing and importing materials in CSV file format

• Filtering data in the Markups list

• Exporting takeoff data to CSV file format

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Bluebeam Revu & Microsoft Word - Document Editing, Collaboration & Comparison

3 Hours

 

Bluebeam Revu

Editing a PDF Document

• Editing text

• Reviewing text

• Formatting text

• Creating hyperlinks

• Searching and hyperlink

• Creating bookmarks

• Headers and footers

• Inserting comments

 

Manipulate PDF Documents

• Extracting pages

• Replacing pages

• Splitting PDF documents

• Exporting to another file format

• Document comparison

• Comparing documents

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Microsoft Word

Reviewing and Collaborating on Documents

• Tracking changes

• Viewing markup

• Accepting and rejecting changes

• Inserting comments

• Displaying and editing comments

• Deleting comments

• Showing or hiding comments

Document Comparison

• Comparing documents

• Combining documents

Creating PDF Documents

• Creating PDF documents in Word

• Creating PDF documents in Excel

• Creating PDF documents from a Web Page

• Opening a PDF in Word

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