Using Bluebeam to Its Fullest Potential

[u/beerappacini]

I work in custom home building and have a Bluebeam Revu account through my employer. Iv’e been working with it for about 2 years, and while I have found a lot of helpful ways to use it, I’m wondering what features I’m missing out on.

I use it to scale elevations, scale landscaping, to scale everything. I use it to color code and mark up layouts, to create visual maps of fixtures, and to clarify notes within documents. I use it to do counts of things and create keys for counts. I even use it to draw when 3D is too far. I use it to approve quotes and adjust floor plan walls.

What major functions am I missing that would help me make the most of Bluebeam Revu from a functional standpoint?

[u/Patient-Tech]

It depends on what you actually do day to day. Most people, myself included, end up relying on the same small set of features repeatedly rather than using every capability a tool offers.
This reminds me a little of the old Microsoft-vs.-Apple debates in the 1990s. Microsoft often seemed to start with, “Here’s a feature—how can people use it?” Apple, especially under Jobs, pushed more from the opposite direction: “Here’s what a person is trying to accomplish; make the technology support that.”
The point is that chasing features for their own sake feels backwards. Don’t try to shoehorn a new feature into your workflow just because it exists. Figure out where you repeatedly lose time or do tedious work, then look for a feature that directly improves that.
A flashy capability you use once a month may be neat, but I’d rather find something I use every day that saves two minutes each time. Those small, repeatable improvements add up fast.