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Bluebeam and McCarthy win Gold!

September 20, 2011

Last Wednesday, September 14th, we attended the Constructech Vision Awards with McCarthy Building Companies at Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. And, we’re happy to report that we came out winners!

The Constructech Vision Awards ‘honor companies that have realized the advantages of applying innovative technologies to their everyday businesses as well as the technology enablers that have helped them achieve their goal.’ McCarthy and Bluebeam were up for an award in the Builder/GC Commercial +$500 million category. The award entry focused on how project record drawings can be updated, maintained and distributed electronically in PDF in lieu of traditional hand posting methods, which are labor intensive, inefficient and difficult to duplicate. McCarthy used Revu to hyperlink PDF documents for better access to information such as drawing details, specifications and RFIs.  Well, McCarthy’s efforts (and Bluebeam’s technology) paid off, because we tied for Gold – the highest achievable honor!

McCarthy's Mike Oster and Kris Montgomery accepting their gold Vision award.

Bluebeam, McCarthy and Constructech representative smile for the camera with their Vision awards.

Team Bluebeam celebrating their win!

Here is a quick interview that we recorded after we received the award with McCarthy’s Vice President, Information Technology, and Bluebeam’s Senior Account Manager:

Click here for the full list of winners, and remember to keep on PDFin’!

-Jill

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Webinar: FutureTech for the Jobsite

September 19, 2011

Join Todd Sutton, Business Unit Manager – Project Controls from Zachry Construction, on Thursday, September 22nd at 11:00am (PDT) for a webinar sponsored by ENR and Microsoft Dynamics. In this webinar, “three forward-leaning, hands-on experts from construction will tell us about their deployments of tools for information innovation on jobsites today, and what they are planning for tomorrow.” Todd will be among the three panelists, and he will discuss how Zachry uses Bluebeam PDF Revu on the jobsite.

In case this feels like déjà vu to you— Todd was the same Bluebeam user who presented Fiatech’s webinar from a couple of weeks ago. He will once again discuss the punch process but will include additional information about real-time field reporting.

Register today and remember to keep on PDFin’!

-Jill

 

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Vote for Bluebeam in ED+C Magaine’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards

August 4, 2011

The polls are open, and it’s time to cast your vote(s)!

Bluebeam PDF Revu, your favorite PDF software for going paperless, is a nominee in this year’s ED+C Reader’s Choice Awards. This contest recognizes the top sustainable building products on the market, and we need your help to win!

It’s easy to vote, in fact you can vote once a day until the contest closes at vote.edcmag.com.  To vote, simply enter your contact information, click on the “Software and Web-based Programs” category, then check the box next to our name. Obviously, the more votes we get the better, so feel free to vote, vote and vote some more.

Thanks so much for all of your support, and remember to keep on PDFin’!

-Jill

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Favorite Feature Friday – The Lasso Tool

June 24, 2011

It’s Friday, which means it’s time to talk about another one of our favorite Bluebeam features! Today the focus is on the Lasso Tool, as demonstrated by Amy and Sasha.

Amy and Sasha giving their best “Lasso Tool” impressions!

The real Lasso Tool, as seen at the top of the Revu interface.

The Lasso tool was originally developed for our tablet PC users. It’s a helpful, and fun, way to multi-select PDF markups. Just grab the tool with your tablet pen or mouse, and draw around all the markups you want to select.

In this example, I used the lasso tool to multi-select all the markups except for the green callout that says “Verify dimension.”

Once you close the loop, your markups will be multi-selected. From here, you can change their properties, group the markups, lock the markups, move the markups in unison – the possibilities are (almost) endless!

The lassoed markups are now multi-selected and ready to go.

Check out more Favorite Feature Friday costumes on our Facebook page. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

 

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Favorite Feature Friday – The Tool Chest

June 17, 2011

It’s Favorite Feature Friday, and today we have two Bluebeamers dressed up to demonstrate the wonderfulness that is the Bluebeam Tool Chest:

Brian and Chris dressed up as the Bluebeam Tool Chest!

An oldie but a goodie, the Tool Chest has been around since day 1 of Revu. You can access the Tool Chest by clicking the blue bar in the middle left of the Revu interface to open the left dock, going to View/Tabs/Tool Chest or using keyboard shortcut Alt+X.

This exclusive feature tracks all the markups you make in your session of Bluebeam and saves them in your Recent Tools (1). If you want to place that markup again, just select it and go. And if you know you’ll use that markup over and over again across sessions, just drag it up to My Tools (2). Bluebeam also provides a number additional tool sets for free, which you can download into your session of Revu either from the Tool Set section of the Start page, or from this page on our website (3). Finally, you can create your own Tool Sets (4) and share them with your friends and colleagues. To learn how, check out this video. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

 

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InformationWeek Writes about PDF-Based Collaboration with Bluebeam

June 7, 2011

Bluebeam Studio for real-time collaboration, and our new Studio Server option for locally-hosted collaboration sessions are making headline news! On Monday, InformationWeek posted this article about using Bluebeam to collaborate on PDF documents, either in the cloud or behind the firewall.

If you’re looking for ways to share PDFs with others in your organization or on your project, then Studio just may be the right tool for you. An included feature of Bluebeam PDF Revu, Studio lets you upload your PDFs to the cloud so that together with your colleagues, you can post markups to the same PDF – either together in real time or separately on your own time. If your organization needs more control and more security, you can use the new Studio Server product to bring all the benefits of Studio from the cloud to behind your firewall and participate in locally hosted-sessions. This advanced collaboration option is available to enterprises for $9,995.

If you have any questions about online collaboration with Bluebeam, let me know by commenting below. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

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New Video Highlights Bluebeam’s Proven Results

June 2, 2011

Ever wonder what savings Bluebeam PDF Revu can achieve for you – or what others are gaining by switching from paper to PDF? If so, then you have to check out our latest video, which highlights some of the real results that firms are attaining with Bluebeam.


Have you achieved incredible results from using Bluebeam on your projects? Let me know by commenting below. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

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Favorite Feature Friday – Custom Toolbars

May 27, 2011

It’s Friday which means it’s time to talk about another one of our favorite features in Blubeam PDF Revu. In case you’ve missed this series, about a month ago, Bluebeamers organized a “Favorite Feature” dress up contest, in which we came to work dressed as one of our favorite features (yes we really are that quirky). I’ve been blogging about one of these Bluebeamer-selected favorite features (almost) every Friday.

Today’s feature – custom toolbars which Peter illustrated by Velcroing Revu toolbar icons to his shirt:

Revu’s custom toolbar feature lets you edit existing toolbars or create your own special toolbar, containing just the icons you want and nothing more. Here’s how to get started. First, go to View/Toolbars/Customize.

Next you’ll see the Customize Toolbars dialog box. Select an existing toolbar to edit (1), or click the plus sign to create a new one (2). Use the categories drop down menu (3) to select a category of available toolbar icons to display (such as File, Font or Markup) then select your desired icons below (4). To the bottom right (5), Revu will display the icons and operations you have selected for your custom toolbar.

Click OK and your toolbar will be added to the Revu interface. Don’t like the location of the toolbar? Just select it and drag and drop it to a new home.

What kind of custom toolbars have you created? Let me know. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

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Favorite Feature Friday – Profiles

April 22, 2011
Last Friday many of my coworkers decided to dress up as their favorite Bluebeam feature. We even made a contest out of it (you can check out all the pictures here on our Facebook page). To honor these features (and my coworkers’ creative costuming skills) I’ve decided to highlight one of the “Favorite Features” at the end of each week. Today I’m going to write about Profiles, which was represented by my coworker Patrick’s award-winning costume below:
 

A Profile, the configuration of Revu’s interface including the toolbars and panels, is one of the many ways you can customize Bluebeam. Revu ships with several interface Profiles, which you can toggle between by clicking the arrow next to the Patrick icon, errr, I mean the icon of a man with a bow tie located at Revu’s bottom right-hand corner.

You can also import additional Profiles from the Profiles Section of the Revu Start Page.

One of the best aspects of the Profiles feature is that it’s really easy to create your own. Just drag and drop to move your toolbars and panels. Or go to View/Toolbars to turn additional markup and editing options on, and unwanted options off. Add custom tool sets to the Revu Tool Chest, set up custom columns and statuses in the Markups lists, and add scripts to the Revu toolbar because, you guessed it, these features are all tied to the selected Profile in Revu. Once you’ve made all the changes you want, click the Profile Icon (not the arrow next to it) to display the Manage Profiles dialog box.

From here, you can add your newly created Profile to Revu. You can even Export your custom Profile (complete with all those tool sets, custom columns, statuses and scripts you created) to share with other Bluebeam users in your firm or on your project. Pretty nifty, huh?

You can learn more about Profiles in this PDF tutorial.

What do you think of this customizable feature? Let me know. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

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Some Curvy Bluebeam Tricks

February 4, 2011

Perhaps one of Bluebeam’s best-kept secrets is the ability to not only add arcs to PDFs using this annotation on the tool bar…

…but also to add curves to polylines and polygons. I received a few customer questions about curves this week, and support taught me two new tricks that I thought I’d share with you.

1)  The “Alt” key helps you draw a better arc.

When drawing an arc, hold down the “Alt” key to click the start point, the middle point and the end point. This trick will help you get just the right arc that you’re looking for.

2)  Polylines make great arcs, too.

Another great way to make an arc is to draw an angle with the polyline tool. Right click on the middle control point…but don’t choose “Convert to Arc.” Instead, go to Control Point/Convert. This will instantly convert the angle into an adjustable curve with fixed endpoints.

For more resources on drawing arcs and curves in Revu, check out this PDF tutorial and this video tutorial. And remember, to keep on PDFin’!

-Karen

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