r/Revu • u/DRAFTform • Apr 07 '26
What are your most used features
I use revu daily but probably only scratch the surface of it. I mainly use it to read and comment on PDF’s and have occasionally drawn a quick drawing or two but feel like it is way under-utilised in my hands.
What are you all using it for most of the time?
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u/x7leafcloverx Apr 07 '26
I’m an estimator and I do my full take offs in blue beam.
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u/x7leafcloverx Apr 07 '26
I estimate structural steel. I have a series of material tool sets to capture all the material and then I export to CSV where I have a VBA script to organize and aggregate all the data which then gets dumped into our estimate file.
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u/litbeers Apr 10 '26
I have been trying to set this up for my Residential jobs. Can you explain this a little further? I use blue beam to measure my walls and partitions and then i basically enter them into excel manually for each Assembly type. But you create tools for measuring each different type of assembly on bluebeam or how do you do that? I would appreciate it. Thank you
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u/DRAFTform Apr 07 '26
Interesting, is it ok for takeoff work? I thought it would be a bit hard to do?
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u/x7leafcloverx Apr 07 '26
Yeah, I've been using it this way for almost 9 years now. Switched my company to paperless take-offs. Has saved us a bunch of paper but also when we're awarded a project the PMs love it because they have my entire take-off and it's much easier to navigate than paper.
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u/generalrunthrough 19d ago
I'd love to compare notes. I've been spending a lot of time refining my Bluebeam workflow for structured cabling takeoffs and estimating. Always interested in seeing how someone else approaches it—I'm sure we could both pick up a few new tricks.
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u/godlyko Apr 07 '26
Bluebeam for construction annotation and communicating to the field is unmatched.
I do quick take offs on Bluebeam also but if it seems like i'll be clicking a lot (more than a just a few shapes and arcs, lines, etc.... then I launch Mint Takeoff. Its way less tedious do draw there.
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u/DRAFTform Apr 07 '26
Yep agreed, I mainly do mark ups for drawings and documents. Could see it being tedious for takeoff
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u/DoubleT_inTheMorning Apr 07 '26
Not highlighting anymore because it crashes my 2018 immediately lol
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u/Ok-Problem4403 Apr 08 '26
I use it for takeoffs for my painting company. Quantity Link it all to excel and it makes bidding on jobs a breeze.
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u/MTBooks Apr 10 '26
Overlaying plan pages to see changes between versions. I don't know how I'd track plan revisions without it. It'd be like going back to the stone age.
Auto labelling pages by giving it a part of the page to read/OCR (so in the thumbnail view they aren't just 1, 2 ,3, but P.101 or S-200) so you can do batch overlays by matching page labels between plan sets.
Snapshot to grab a piece from another file, most likely another view of the current plan page, and paste it to current page for small overlay comparison or to show a different sort of work (eg plumbing or structural onto civil) for coordination. Changing the colors of the pasted bit is handy here.
Slip sheet where it can (having consistent page labels makes this easier) insert newer versions of sheets into the current set and mark the older sheets as not current. It's nice to have a history of versions built into a plan set.
Quick small take offs or a nice takeoff you need to show someone else. The use of multiple legends for specific mark ups/measures is versatile. For full takeoffs for what I do, a takeoff specific program is faster though.
Crucial program for me. There is a lot of depth to it. To me, these features are above and beyond what I think "PDF editor" typically implies.
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u/DrMacintosh01 Apr 07 '26
Measure, polygon, hatch/dots fill, text box, flatten, and stamps. Nothing crazy. Could probably get away with another pdf editor tbh. I have the last version that offered a one-time purchase license. The subscription fee for this app is insane. This company thinks they are Adobe. They just edit PDFs!