Wacom Tablet for Bluebeam Markups and more

In a work-from-home world, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves looking for alternative ways to mark up documents in Bluebeam Revu within AEC. Staff are no longer able to print hard copies, mark them up by hand, and then scan those sheets back in to delegate tasks. The main obstacle being designers don't have large format plotters or even 11x17 printers at home, for the most part. And, really, that is probably a good thing as it is not the best use of resources.

Consider going digital for the entire process. If you have a tablet or stylus enabled screen it is easy to do markups in Bluebeam. If not, the Wacom tablet might be a good solution.

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Bluebeam Revu Free 30-day Trial for Existing Customers During COVID-19 Crisis

Bluebeam is offering extended 30-day free trial for their existing customers to facilitate working remotely during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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Print PDF Set with Hyperlinks from Revit

The inspiration for today's post comes from Mike Matheny's comment in yesterdays post on printing sheets in a specific order. Mike used to work with me here are LHB and also wrote this post on my blog a while back: To BIM 360 Design or Not!

When printing a PDF, Revit will add hyperlinks automatically. This is a Revit thing, not a PDF printer driver thing. Here is an Autodesk help topic on that: About Printing to PDF

And, because the Bluebeam add-in Create PDF button on the Ribbon is apparently not using its own Bluebeam-installed print driver, we don't get hyperlinks as Mike correctly pointed out.

Here are how Hyperlinks do work, when using a PDF print driver...