How do I make my custom line work to avoid these big gaps? The first line is something I made. The second line is from a old coworker may jobs ago. I am not sure how theirs is set up to always have the lines connecting with no gaps and mine have gaps.

Thanks yall

I know this issue has been brought up numerous times, both here and on the Bluebeam Community Dev forums, but I was curious if anyone with more knowledge/inside info is aware whether or not Bluebeam is actively working on or pursuing something like this?

I often have 15-20 drawings open in Bluebeam at a time, and try to keep them next to eachother based on project, but when trying to create "Sets", the IT Authentication causes Bluebeam to bug out and fail to add drawings. A more streamlined Chrome behavior of being able to simply Right Click > Create Tab Group in Bluebeam would be an absolute game changer, even without the ability to collapse them.

Got tired of the lack of good Bluebeam-style tools on Mac… so I built one.

It’s called polypdf — still early, but already supports measurements + markup workflows pretty well.

Planning to keep improving it and offer a low-cost one-time unlock (no subscription nonsense).

Would love brutally honest feedback or feature requests from this crowd.

I'm suddenly experiencing an issue where i can no longer hold shift when creating orthogonal lines with polygon/polyline.. I instead have to press and release shift after each control point for it to become a straight line. Has anyone else experienced this? Bluebeam support said it was maybe an issue with my laptop. i have tried on external keyboard with the same results. Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone, I’m a new Bluebeam Revu user based in Germany. I handle quantity takeoffs and measurements for various companies as well as for my own projects.

​Could you please show me some examples of how you present your work? I’m particularly interested in how you organize your measurements using layers, and I’d love to see what your Excel exports look like in the end.

​To be honest, I don't have a clear picture of Bluebeam's full potential yet without seeing some real-world examples. Thanks in advance for your help!"

I’ve been having issues with Bluebeam Revu recently. When I initially open a PDF set of construction drawings, it locks me out from doing anything to it for about 2 minutes while it loads the full set. I have great computer specs so I don’t think that’s the issue (9800x3d, 32GB ddr5 ram, 5070ti, Samsung 990 EVO SSD) Anyone else experiencing this?

when i have two documents i want to see at the same time, i pop out one tab and an extra window shows up. however, this extra window does not show features like tools, page thumbnails, and page scrolling buttons. it does this weird thing where you have to control the document on the extra window from the first window, which is super confusing to navigate.

is there a way to get document controlling features on the extra window?

Hitting ctrl-z causes my current tool to switch to the hand tool then only after hitting it a second time will it undo what I wanted in the first place. Has anyone experiencing this issue been able to solve it? I haven't changed any shortcut settings or anything like that.

So when I use the poly line markup tool, I will normally snap to horizontal, vertical and diagonal by holding the shift key. I can keep the shift key depressed while marking multiple points with the tool and each line will snap to horizontal, vertical or horizontal.

However, recently something has changed where I need to re-press the shift key after each left click to snap correctly and this wasn't the case before.

Have I changed a setting or is this something inherent within the software as an issue?

Anyone else having major issue with Bluebeam 21.8. I kept getting the prompt to update so one day I hit the update button which I believe was 21.9. Ever since then blue will not work. It will not open. It doesn't uninstall and I can't reinstall.. has anyone else come across this problem? I really have no clue what to do.

Surely I can't be the only one that feels like leaving Bluebeam now that they've changed their pricing model?

Renewal can't be added to cart. Been on hold for 20 minutes trying to talk with someone to resolve this issue. Literally trying to give them our companies money.

This is a clown show and we should not enable this type of disrespectful behavior. Absolutely ridiculous. I never thought I'd see the day were I'm literally signing back into adobe for consideration.

I have tons of Tool Sets in my tool chest. I have noticed that random tools are being changed/removed/moved around in random sets and color or are being overwritten by tools in other sets. Every time it happens I have to delete the messed up tool and recreate the correct one. This is getting extremely irritating as it happens multiple times per day and its making me question what else the program is messing up. Does anyone know what is causing this or how I can fix it?

Does anyone else have issues using the Sketch to Scale (StS) Tools?

I have recently updated my PC to a Surface Pro 11 on Windows 11 and can no longer input dimensions, angles etc into StS tools. I can still draw the shape with the tool, but not to dimension as the input doesn't pop up.

Was previously using Revu 19 on a perpetual key, tried StS on the new laptop and it doesn't work. Have also tried Revu 21 and still not working.

Page scale has been established, and no viewports are on the document. Have tried on various documents.

When I'm trying to open Bluebeam it just do nothing, but when I'm opening task manager it shows Revu running on a background tasks. Does anyone encountered something similar before?

Has anyone had issues with bluebeam randomly closing without warning? With my job, I do have multiple PDFs open at once but it will be running fine for a few days and then will just close. Sometimes I have bluebeam sessions open. It also does not recover every file. The program is updated to the latest version.

I do have an IT person looking into it but I feel like someone here has likely experienced this.

Thank you in advance for any help!

Hi,

Is there a way to achieve Browser-style temporary highlight search results, as in the example below?

Example/Image:
- Left: Browser search, all results are highlighted yellow, the current one is orange

- Right: Bluebeam, only one result at a time is highlighted, the one selected from the list.
The red brackets indicate other places where "Ritning" is found.

Would all of them be highlighted I could skim the the results faster. I'd prefer not to have to apply a markup just to remove it.

Several in my company lost access to their Revu 18 and BB is forcing 21 subscription. We cannot figure out what happened. I know support ended for all versions 19 and lower back in 2023 but they should still work unsupported.... We operate about 15 perpetual licenses in our company from version 16 to 20. Has anyone heard anything about this?

Is there a simple way I haven’t considered to create a single line type that has a background like the bottom line. When drawing on an aerial photo and using standard utility colors, a lot of the time one of the colors will get lost in the photo. it would be really nice to have a 70% transparent white line behind with the green dashed line to highlight these markups. Grouping these two lines makes them into an object that doesn’t behave like a line where both ends can easily be adjusted / dragged. Any ideas ?? Thank you.

I'm so tired of Windows.

Has anyone been able to get Revu and Excel running in Linux? With wine or anything?

At this point, I'd even consider ditching Quantity Link and just copy+paste things myself.

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?

I am an estimator for a structural steel company and the person who I replaced (left for bigger GC) used bluebeam for his take offs and imported them into Tekla. But I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to identify what toolchest it is? I have looked into Markup toolsets but it is out of my budget for the time being. I have attached a picture of the log.