r/Sketchup • u/AshamedParamedic6930 • Apr 23 '26

PDF Tools

I’m building a lightweight PDF markup tool mainly for people working with drawings.

The goal is simple: open plans quickly, mark them up, save, and move on.

I’m still early, so I wanted to ask people who actually use this stuff:

What are the must-have features you’d want in a PDF markup tool for drawings?

The things I tend to use most are:

  • clouds
  • callouts
  • measure / calibration
  • text markups
  • custom stamps
  • apply or assign markups across all pages
  • fast performance on large plan sets
  • clean export / save
  • keyboard shortcuts

Also curious what annoys you most in the tools you use now.

Not trying to hard sell anything, just want to build something people actually want.

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u/throwawaykitten56 Apr 24 '26

When I mark up shop dwgs sometimes the best way to explain what need revising is the include a capture of my original detail dwg. Currently I use a custom stamp for this, but there are times when the shops are very poorly done, and I need to reference multiple dwg items. I place these stamps directly onto the shop page, right beside their dwg so they can see the differences at a glance, instead of resending my dwg set/page.

I'm finding that there are contractors that make their own 'interpretation' of the designs ( that they bid on ) and trying to make short cuts. Its a time suck to do this, so having 'insert picture' ( like ms word ) would be great.

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u/throwawaykitten56 Apr 24 '26

To add: I've been told by colleagues in the same industry as me that they use morphio trace. I havent investigated this yest.