Academies, Courses, and Seminars

The Workforce & Professional Development team provides several educational opportunities for individuals looking to enter the construction industry, strengthen their current understanding, and/or move up within their companies. The team provides one-day academies and seminars, as well as, multi-day courses. See the event calendar on the right for upcoming courses.

Interface and Navigation

• File Access – Pin, organize, preview and reopen PDF files with a single click
• Customizing Profiles – Customize Revu’s interface for your unique needs
• Customize Keyboard Shortcuts – Personalize Revu with customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Interface and Navigation – Explore the interface of Revu

Markup Tools

• PDF Markups – Add customizable markups such as text, highlights, clouds, callouts and stamps
• Customizing Markups – Customize the appearance and properties of markups to add clarity
• Tool Chest – Save commonly used markups for easy reuse
• Format Painter – Copy the properties on one markup and apply to another markup or group of markups
• Hyperlinks and Edit Action – Add hyperlinks to take you to specific locations in your documents
• Makeup Actions and Sequencing – Add actions to markups and create annotations that auto-increment by number
• Stamps – Create, edit and add stamps to documents to communicate important project information
• Markup Legends – Provide a key for the markup tools added to your document
• Creating Markup Summaries – Export data from your markups to a report that you can share with others
• Capture Media and Export Media – Use the capture tool to embed images and video to markups
• Sketch Tools – Add scaled, planning objects or new content to drawings using sketching tools
• Applying Actions to Search Results – Apply styling, highlights or other actions to results from text or visual search

Markups List

• Markups List – Manage and track markups that can be filtered, searched, imported and exported
• Compare Documents – Compare two documents, clouding any differences and placing the results in the Markups List. Especially beneficial for drawing revisions
• Formula Columns – Create custom columns that include formulas for calculation using variables and data from the Markups List
• Custom Columns – Add customized columns to define additional data for your markups
• Capture Media and Export Media – Use the capture tool to embed images and video to markups then export them using Capture Summary
• Custom Statuses – Clearly identify markups with different states of completion using custom statuses
• Applying Actions to Search Results – Apply styling, highlights or other actions to results from a text or visual search

Editing Documents

• PDF Editing – Edit the PDF content in text in published PDFs, modifying it, moving it or erasing it all together
• Search PDFs – Search for text and symbols within your document and apply actions to the results
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) – Transform scanned PDFs into text-searchable and selectable files

Drawing Management

• Sets – Sets let you view, access and navigate an unlimited number of various source files as a single document in a single tab
• Tags & Drawing Logs – Tags help users easily create, configure and manage Sets by using information already found in a document
• Compare Documents – Compare two documents, clouding any differences and placing the results in the Markups List.
• Overlay Pages – Find differences in documents as they are placed on separate, colored layers to highlight variation.
• Spaces – Once a space has been defined, all markups added to that space will be tracked in the Markups List, which can be filtered to show detailed information
• Bookmarks and AutoMark – Jump to pages and places using editable bookmarks, and create them automatically with AutoMark
• Batch Link – Quickly and automatically link an entire group of pages or documents for easy navigation with Batch Link
• Batch Slip Sheet – Bulk replace PDF content or pages to quickly get the right information of the page with automation of Batch Slip Sheet
• Creating Markup Summaries – Export the data from your markups to a report that you can share with others or use in another program
• Drawing Uploader – Upload documents and drawings to the Drawings web app for distribution to the field
• Drawings Viewer – View uploaded drawings from the web interface or Bluebeam drawings App
• PDF Packages - Bundle multiple PDFs in one container that allows easy access to many files.

Document Processing

• Reduce File Size – Compress large files to manageable file sizes in order to email or archive them
• Color processing – Manipulate the colors on your PDF

Studio Workflows

• Studio Overview - Find out more about Studio, a service built into Revu that allows you to collaborate with project partners wherever you are
• Studio Projects - Studio Projects provides a simple Document Management System in the cloud
• Studio Sessions - Revu users can add markups to the same PDF document together in real-time using Studio Sessions, or individually at any time while the Session is active.

PDF Security

• PDF Security - Apply a password to open the PDF file or set permissions to what your recipients can and cannot do.
• Digital Signatures - Digital Signatures ensure the authenticity and integrity of your digital ID when signing and validating documents electronically
• Flattening – Make markups a permanent, unchangeable part of the PDF

Working with Measurements

• Quantity Link – Link measurement totals from multiple PDF’s to Excel worksheets for automatic bid calculations using your own predefined formulas and formats
• Measurement Tools – Take essential measurements like length and are, count from PDF’s and perform area cutouts
• Calibration - Set the scale of your drawing so that measuring and sketching can be done properly.
• Creating Markup Summaries - Export the data from your markups to a report that you can share with others or use in another program.
• Dynamic Fill – Select large or irregular areas and quickly crate spaces, markups, and measurements all at once
• Measurement Cutouts - Remove areas from an existing area or volume measurement to create more accurate measurements.
• Quantity Takeoffs in Revu 2019 - Gain full control of your next quantity takeoff with enhancements to the Measurements Panel, Scale calibration, Properties

PDF Forms

• PDF Forms - Create and distribute PDF forms with text fields, buttons, check and list boxes, digital signature fields and more.
• Create New PDF & PDF from Template – Create new, blank PDFs, generate PDF templates installed with Revu, or create custom templates to reuse

3D PDFs

• 3D PDFs - Take advantage of 3D PDF technology using the same tools and technologies you are accustomed to in Revu.

Plugins and Administrator Tools

• Bluebeam Microsoft Plugin - Create PDFs from documents you have created in Microsoft Office programs.
• Bluebeam Administrator - Customize back-end Revu settings for experienced Administrators.
• Revu Configuration Editor - Easily configure MSI files for standardized deployment across your organization with the Bluebeam Revu Configuration Editor.