How To Use Bluebeam Revu As A Construction Manager

A Construction Manager's Comprehensive Commentary - How to use Bluebeam Revu as a Construction Manager

What you'll learn

Introduction to Bluebeam Revu

How to Create and Manage PDFs

How to Markup PDFs

How to Compare PDFs

How to Overlay PDFs

How to perform Quantity Takeoffs

How to make Custom Tools

Requirements

Basic knowledge of PDFs

Description

A Construction Manager’s Comprehensive Commentary - How to use Bluebeam Revu as a Construction ManagerThis is an introductory course that will provide the learner with a basic understanding on how to use Bluebeam Revu. This course was developed by a Construction Manager who has been working in the Design and Construction Industries for over 30 years. His personal experiences helped developed this course and it will demonstrate how to use Bluebeam effectively on a construction projects. The course is divided into several sections which include Introduction to Bluebeam REVU, How to Create and Manage PDFs, How to Markup PDFs, How to Compare PDFs, How to Overlay PDFs, How to perform Quantity Takeoffs, and How to make Custom Tools. The course will provide an overview of all the software tools. The instructor will go through each of the pulldown menus and demonstrate how to use many of the tools on a actual construction project. The main tools that will be covered in this course include: Creating and Combining PDFs, Exporting, Copying and Pasting, Panning and Selecting, Creating Snapshots, Erasing Content, Editing Text and Redactions, Changing Views, Rotating Views, Dimmer, Disable Line Weights, Rotate, Insert, Extract, Replace, Delete, and Crop Pages, Security Settings, Compare Pages, Overlay Pages, Reduce File Size, Flatten and Unflatten, Markups, Stamps, Measure, Sketch to Scale, Forms, and Signature. The course will also teach you how to use Bluebeam as an excellent tool to prepare quantity takeoffs and how to export them into an estimate. Additional tools that will be covered include Calibrating, Creating Measuring Tools, Area vs Linear Dimensions, Markup Lists, Quantity Takeoffs, Exporting Calcs, Managing Toolchest, Importing Tools, and Importing Tools.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Bluebeam

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Pulldown Menu Overview

Lecture 3 Revu, File, Edit, and View Menus

Lecture 4 Document Menu

Lecture 5 Tools Menu

Lecture 6 Quantity Takeoffs

Lecture 7 Conclusion

This course provides detailed instructions on how to use Bluebeam for anyone that working as General Contractor, Construction Manager, Site Superintendent, Facility Manager, Estimator or Designer.