Bluebeam Revu Reviews

Blue beam review

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

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Time lost over horrible system. FIX THE PROBLEMS THAT YOU KNOW EXIST

Comments: Poor at Best. I am so tired of taking my time to explain your horrible system to our clients. WEAK!!!!

Pros:

Nothing!! Because it doesn't work consistently enough to monitor anything good.

Cons:

Poor system, POOR communication with other systems that your group guaranteed would work. We all know that you have tried to fix problems, but your group cannot seem to get it right.

Drafters' and Engineers' best friend

Comments: Enjoy many features that make for quick and easy technical drawing editing. Drafters love it.

Pros:

Makes it easy to edit technical drawings

Cons:

A steep learning curve for people who have never used it.

Sheng Review

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

Pros:

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

Cons:

it crash a lot on big files, and slow too

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

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Pros:

Cost effectiveness and ease of use compared to other editors.

Cons:

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

Bluebeam Revu raving results

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Bluebeam Revu

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Untrustworthy Developer - Dropped the ball

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Bluebeam Revu is one of the best software currently in the market

Comments: i am using Bluebeam Revu since one year, i found it very helpful in all aspects

Pros:

Bluebeam Revu is one of the best software currently in the market, i found it very helpful to manage many kind of documents. i personally use it mostly for managing PDF files. its a great toll to merge many files in a single click. with its great tools of editing we prepare many kinds of presentation for our client and consultant meeting that bear fruitful results most of the time. for any documents to change any kind of text and pictures it is very handy, managing large files and to find every single topic in a simple search is the key to this software, in short i would recommend this software for all users refer to the other same kind of software in the current market.

Cons:

i like all the features of this software that why we are using this software in our organization. what i like the most in it is that its very easy to edit any kind of page with the desired results. with all its text styles its more fun to use, managing huge files in a single click make it more efficient. any word or topic to find is very easy

BlueBeam Revu

Comments: 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

Pros:

easy to use, inexpensive and has great features

Cons:

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

Blue Beam

Comments: Employees on the job can now easily scale plans right off their tablet instead of the paper plans

Pros:

Super easy to download a pdf for markup , reading , scrolling or even zoom. This program is very helpful for construction plans.

Cons:

It was pretty complicated to learn all of the tools and commands. I feel I only use a portion of this and a missing out on some cool features.

Bluebeam has a great choice

Comments: I think blue beam is a great choice, especially if you choose to get the higher tier software package. It includes OCR as well as visual recognition, which helps tremendously when you’re looking for something.

Pros:

I believe it is one of the easiest Software’s to learn as well as it being widely used that creates lots of resources to collaborate with others

Cons:

There are some quirks about the customization of takeoff items. I would have liked to have seen more templates available for the construction industry particularly Commercial Roof.

Bluebeam Revu 21

Pros:

Quick measurements on PDF drawings, available tools are robust and haven't been missing anything I need. The prebuilt scales are ample. Drawing overlay feature is very helpful in comparing revision drawings.

Cons:

Steep learning curve to get started, fortunately there are some BB University courses to get the ball rolling.

Game changer

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Definately would recommend

Comments: Excellent. I am impressed and would definitely recommend this software.

Pros:

This software is user friendly and can be custom to each individual person. Multiple functions also.

Cons:

Sometimes it freezes and I have to restart my entire computer.

Value for money software

Pros:

I love that it helps me complete takeoffs, and ease of marking up drawings and be able to send request for information quickly.

Cons:

Sometimes, it is hard to learn the software but when you know how to do it. Life becomes easy.

A great solution for take-offs

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Useful Tool

Pros:

Reviewing PDF documents and making adjustments is made easy.

Cons:

No negative things to say about it at this time.

review

Pros:

easy to add and implement installs for admins

Cons:

not easy to remove licenses without having workstation available. need to ask support to unregsiter

Way more than just a .PDF program...

Pros:

I love all of the takeoff features bluebeam has. Being tailor made for construction and having all of the same features as the competitors as well makes it a no Brainer for me.

Cons:

Integration was easy. Learning the program is slightly different than competitors but there is a good help section and online communities.

Every construction company should be using this program!

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Bluebeam Revu

Comments: Not positive, the program is not overly user friendly

Pros:

The program enabled us to give our foreman and project managers access to pdf drawings that they require to manage a job

Cons:

The program is not user friendly, difficult to work within, manage, save pdf's to, creating new folders is difficult

Great product for architects

Comments: Bluebeam works great and helps me get through my job duties.

Pros:

Bluebeam allows for me to easily review drawings and mark up edits with an ease. I also enjoy cool features such as scaling objects and finding measurements which is not common with other pdf viewers.

Cons:

I think more tutorials or training should be available. I often feel that I am not getting the most out of the features.