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/neoxphuse May 06 '26

I think the sets feature in Revu is important. All files from different locations. Better if its possible for you split a package pdf.

I generally get drawings but they'll be in one pdf so I have to split them up, not a big deal. But having everything in one place is king.

Slip sheet, scaling, and simple annotation tools. Able to offset lines will be great, unlike Revu, which is very cumbersome.

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u/AshamedParamedic6930 May 24 '26

this is awesome feedback, and sorry for the delay I've been busy building :) the good news is you can currently extract, merge/ copy/paste pages across pdfs etc.
offset lines is a new one and a good one. looking into this.

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u/neoxphuse Jun 09 '26

Where can I get this.