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Our Bluebeam Tips and Blog Posts are Moving

Carol Hagen

“Flowers arranged to ALOHA, Hilo, Hawaii” by Father of JGKlein, used with permission – Father of JGKlein, used with permission. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flowers_arranged_to_ALOHA,_Hilo,_Hawaii.JPG#/media/File:Flowers_arranged_to_ALOHA,_Hilo,_Hawaii.JPG. It’s Goodbye and Hello… Yes, we’re saying goodbye to WordPress.com and starting July 30, 2015 all our blog posts will appear on a self h

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Pulling Data from a Scanned PDF into Excel

Carol Hagen

When printed materials are distributed at your next seminar or meeting, or your find a magazine that contains a table that you find valuable, most people scan the document to PDF to save it for later. Sometimes you want this data entered into a database or added to spreadsheet. If you can get it to a spreadsheet you can usually import into a database but who wants to key in all that data?

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AEC Hackathon Recap (June 27-28, 2015)

Carol Hagen

Since most of my readers are not on Twitter, I’ve decided to share the tweets which are jam-packed with emerging technologies in the construction, architecture and engineering sector. I’ve cherry picked the cream of the crop to keep and put them in the order they occurred to make it easier for you to get a taste of what you missed at the AEC Hackathon and what the value of Twitter is (when you can’t be there in person).

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Bluebeam Revu Tips: Estimating Wall Area

Carol Hagen

Painting and wall contractors find estimating take-offs easy when the wall area can be calculated quickly. Using a Perimeter measurement tool or an Area measurement tool , open the properties tab and enter the wall height into the Depth field to enable the measurement of the Wall Area column in the Markups list. You can of course create you own custom tools to expedite the process.

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Sending PDFs to EverNote, Box and DropBox

Carol Hagen

Going mobile and paperless is part of the Bluebeam experience so how do you send your PDFs to mobile devices? You can use the email options of EverNote, DropBox and Box. So what makes this a Bluebeam Tip? I’ve created a script for each app ( available in Bluebeam Revu Extreme only ) and pinned it to my tool bar. It’s likely you are sharing these PDFs so you can use hyperlinked documents on all your mobile devices.

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How to Find Your Center with Bluebeam Revu

Carol Hagen

Finding your center isn’t about Yoga. Whether you want to hang a chandelier or start laying carpet tiles you’ll want to start in the middle of the room. If you start with a square or rectangular room, you could find the center by placing two Diameter measurements and rotate one 90 degrees to see where the diameters cross. This method won’t work though if you have a an arch on one side of the area, like in this hotel foyer (above).

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Bluebeam Tip: Estimating and Layers

Carol Hagen

How many times during your estimating take-off do you right click and add an item to a layer? You use layers to place like items together (all the electrical, all the the flooring or all the insulation, etc.), so you can toggle these layers on and off, to isolate trades and to keep your take-off ordered and uncluttered. When using one drawing to take-off many trades, layers helps but adding an item to a layer each time you take-off an item in Revu is time-consuming.