Bluebeam Revu

Blue beam review

Kommentare: It is my preferred PDF editor and I constantly use it to make edits

Vorteile:

It is very user friendly and very intuitive. The dashboards are set up similar to acad and I can draw pretty well. The editing features are also top notch.

Nachteile:

It is a bit pricey for a PDF editor. You can get adobe versions much cheaper and while it maybe less functional, the adobe programs do work ok.

tons of features, faily easy to use

Kommentare: I use this program almost daily for work and find it to be faily simple, mostly reliable, and with all the features I could hope for without being crazy complex.

Vorteile:

Lots of useful features. Easy to merge documents and edit files. Lots of editing tools, and once all that's done, you can also reduce file size to allow the file to compress and be small enough to attach to emails.

Nachteile:

Certain updates make it very glitchy and it will freeze frequently on me. Other updates are perfectly fine. Seems they issue a revised update fairly quickly when these issues occur.

Great for any construction company

Vorteile:

I loved being able to learn the ins and out of this software, however it was not was easy for me. Helping a local construction company use this software to put their PDFs together and help create new blueprints. User friendly on an advanced design level.

Nachteile:

The mark ups took some getting used to but once I understood the concept it wasn’t that hard

Sheng Review

Kommentare: Good, its pretty easy to use and i like the file reduction option

Vorteile:

easy to use, i like to review options and doc compare functions

Nachteile:

it crash a lot on big files, and slow too

Amazing PDF reader, better than Adobe Acrobat. Very useful engineering tools

Kommentare: This is the fastest tool when it comes to drawing review, pdf document creation and control, and diagram creation. The tools at your disposal allow you to do many things which other programs do not. I would recommend this software over any other PDF reader.

Vorteile:

Very handy and intuitive engineering tools, you can mark up drawings, get measurements and estimate quantities very easily. The drawings tools are also very useful, allowing for easy creation of clean diagrams. The PDF tools are powerful and I have completely phased out Adobe Acrobat in favour of using Bluebeam.

Nachteile:

The only downside I have come across is the inability to created lines of fixed length, you have to create a measurement and then create a line to match the measurement.

Bluebeam is a cost effective alternative to other PDF Editors in the construction world

Vorteile:

Cost effectiveness and ease of use compared to other editors.

Nachteile:

Some tools are less sophisticated than other editors on the market but overall worth it in terms of cost.

Bluebeam Revu raving results

Vorteile:

Once I learned how to use it there was no going back to Adobe. Blue Beam has management tools that improve review speed and accuracy.

Nachteile:

Thelearning curve if you really want to use the product the correct way.

Bluebeam Revu

Kommentare: I was a little hesitant at first when my company switched from Adobe to Bluebeam, but now that I have gotten use to the program I would never want to go back to Adobe.

Vorteile:

It's easy to mark up PDF files. In the construction industry, we make markups on blueprints and submittals. It's also easy for material take-offs with the measuring tools.

Nachteile:

I still haven't been satisfied with all the toolbars and their locations. I have a tool bar on the top, side and bottom and I haven't figured out how to make it so I can just show the tools that I use the most.

Blue beam review

Kommentare: very good for certain things without having to open up cad

Vorteile:

take off made easy and not having to print anything off

Nachteile:

the task bars seem very confusing and time-consuming to setup

Untrustworthy Developer - Dropped the ball

Vorteile:

Brings a lot of features and functionality missing from Acrobat. To my knowledge, no other PDF software is geared towards the A+E market. I wish there was another one out there so that these guys didn't have a monopoly on the market. It has given them a sense of invincibility that has led to stagnation and a lack of genuine support for their customers.

Nachteile:

I've been using Revu for about 8 years, 5 of those on Windows. The last 3 are at my most recent job, and when I found out that Bluebeam had created a Revu for Mac, I was quick to push our company to adopt. I even gave a lunchtime presentation to show everyone some of the really powerful features I had come to know and love from the windows side. Playing with the trial version of 1.0, though, I quickly realized that a ton of features were absent from the windows version. I went ahead and gave the presentation anyway, though and with some convincing, we bought seats for everyone. It became clear within the first week of using the software, though, that it was incredibly slow. So slow as to be unusable. It took several seconds to render every page... considering that we regularly deal with 100+ page architectural sets, this made the program worthless in a lot of cases. What's more we really felt the lack of some features from the windows side, many of which were so basic that it's laughable that Bluebeam decided not to invest in them. You can't crop pdfs for instance. Anyway, when bluebeam for mac 2.0 came out, we bought in thinking that we'd be getting all of the features that we were missing along with performance improvements. Turns out they decided to revamp the UI with almost 0 feature inclusions. The performance of page rendering was significantly improved, which was helpful, although page thumbnails now no longer load.

I Recommend Bluebeam

Kommentare: It is an excellent tool for reviewing drawings and organizing reports in a clear manner.

Vorteile:

Marking up drawings and also being able to create a shared document for multiple users to mark up make this a strong tool that allows AEC professionals to go digital and avoid printing.

Nachteile:

Tools that allow me to draw straight lines on documents would help.

BlueBeam Revu Review

Kommentare: I would highly recommend Bluebeam Revu over almost any other PDF reader/modifier. Its simplicity is refreshing. I think that if more people knew about the product they would switch from Adobe.

Vorteile:

Bluebeam is simple to learn and use. There are so many handy tools, and I don't even use a lot of them in my line of work but I know others who do. I particularly like the cloud tool to bring attention to revisions, but also like the text editor and the ability to scale from a set of drawings by picking two points with a known dimension.

Nachteile:

I think most of the tools are really great, but I would like to see a few more options for shapes that can be drawn. I use some of them to create easy to read legends for a particular set of drawings.

BlueBeam Revu

Kommentare: the product makes it easy to measure, mark up and make amendments to drawings during the design process without the need to have expensive CAD software

Vorteile:

easy to use, inexpensive and has great features

Nachteile:

I sometimes struggle to find features, but that is because I don't use everything all the time, and it is a very feature rich product

Great Software But Needs To Be Available To Mac Users Again

Kommentare: Very good, just disappointed it's no longer available on mac. It was by far the best for everything we do as a company and now we can't use it.

Vorteile:

The take off function and ability to add comments was extremely useful

Nachteile:

The licensing expired on Mac, so new employees are unable to use the software which is a huge issue as we had three members of the commercial department using Bluebeam and we had to change when another three employees joined the team as we can't collaborate unless all on same software.

Powerful software with limits

Vorteile:

Able to manage and manipulate multiple pieces of construction information. Useful to quickly design markups in a more time efficient manner than autocad

Nachteile:

Runs into software limitations when advanced use occurs

Action tool for a Document editor

Vorteile:

You will be notified via emails when you have access to project and the file.

Nachteile:

When the system fails ,I was not able to figure out , and had to reach out to the Bluebeam team for clarity.

Game changer

Vorteile:

I like how bluebeam make the takeoffs so much easier especially the count tool combined with the search tool that will make our estimate easier to price up.

Nachteile:

I think the length tool should be more subject to edit so i can personalized the feature or the looks

BB Revue - Track all changes to any document and review design live.

Vorteile:

The ability to track changes to any document.

Nachteile:

That others do not know its full potential in design reviews and across the construction industry.

Bluebeam usages

Kommentare: Bluebeam was a software that is user friendly and effective. The functions that I used help make my workday easier.

Vorteile:

Bluebeam is a great software necessity, It helped me get organized and was easy to operate

Nachteile:

Bluebeam's take off functions were basic but efficient. It allowed me to get through the jobs easily.

A great solution for take-offs

Vorteile:

Bluebeam Revu is a great solution for creating take-off from a PDF file that cannot be converted to DWG or any other drawing extension. Bluebeam Revu is very smooth and does not consume much from the PC resources. the best thing about Bluebeam Revu is that you can import all your work to Excel.

Nachteile:

There is nothing to dislike about Bluebeam Revu, the software is perfectly working and benefiting us at the maximum level.

Best take-off software

Kommentare: Bluebeam Revu isn't suitable for PDF reading and editing only. It's advanced software for engineering functions.

Vorteile:

Bluebeam Revu is full of engineering functions and features, best for reading PDF drawings.

Nachteile:

Bluebeam Revu is costly and complicated for basic users.

Useful Tool

Vorteile:

Reviewing PDF documents and making adjustments is made easy.

Nachteile:

No negative things to say about it at this time.

Functional

Vorteile:

Great when using on the go at different sites

Nachteile:

If you dont know what hour doing it can be challenging

Every construction company should be using this program!

Kommentare: I loved it. Used every project. Was able to see my margins increase as a byproduct of not over estimating... less waste. We were also able to keep project costs more real-time helping to win more projects.

Vorteile:

Pros: I loved the digital estimating tools that fed back to the general, [sensitive content hidden], and architects. They were able to see any gaps in designs and see where projects might be easier to VE.

Nachteile:

CONS: 1) Too many tools at your fingertips makes for alot to learn, but not everything is needed. 2) If GC is using program, the document management on large projects can become very overwhelming if not organized extremely well.

I love this tool and use it daily

Kommentare: I'd be lost without this!

Vorteile:

I love the ability to create custom tools, download full preloaded tool sets, layering, and more.

Nachteile:

I haven't found a feature yet that I don't enjoy and utilize.