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What Is Bluebeam Revu?

If you're experiencing challenges when sharing architecture designs and ideas across platforms, and with many team members and stakeholders across the world, turn to Bluebeam, a suite of on-the-go construction markup software that seamlessly keeps your team on the same page when design elements are modified or updated. With its 2D/3D capabilities and support for many formats, your team projects will stay on budget and on time.

Who Uses Bluebeam Revu?

Bluebeam serves architecture, engineering, construction, and owner (AECO) professionals across industry segments from individual users to large-scale enterprises.

Bluebeam Revu Software - Revu makes your project’s drawings and plans work smarter by using them to share metadata, markups, hyperlinks, bookmarks, images, stamps, signatures, attachments and 3D data-streamlining critical time-consuming processes and simplifying communication.
Bluebeam Revu Software - Studio Projects give you a single centralized location to store documents—even entire projects—in the cloud. And Studio Sessions let project teams worldwide review, mark up, modify and update the same files at the same time.

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Reviews of Bluebeam Revu

Average score

Overall
4.7
Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.3
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.5

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Lap
Lap
project Manager in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Real Estate, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Blue beam review

4.0 4 years ago

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.

Ben
Senior Designer in Canada
Building Materials, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best Functioning PDF Software

5.0 5 months ago

Comments: Revu has everything needed for editing, measuring, overlaying and marking up pdfs. Incredible time saver.

Pros:

Very functional, everything you could need in the construction world for a PDF software.

Cons:

I'd like it to be able to read text better, my phone can decipher text from a photo better than Revu can decipher the same text from a pdf of the same photo.

scott
00 in US
Government Administration, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source
Source: SoftwareAdvice

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

1.0 2 years ago

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.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Construction, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

tons of features, faily easy to use

5.0 last year

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.

Sheng
Architect in Australia
Architecture & Planning, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Sheng Review

5.0 9 months ago

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