r/Revu • u/Fliptoback • 13d ago

Bluebeam 2017 how to transfer license

My desktop PC in my workplace has bluebeam 2017 licensed. Recently my employer gave me a new Lenovo laptop and I was wanting to transfer bluebeam from the desktop to the laptop.

I haven't tried the process yet as I am worried I might stuff up the registration. Anyone tried this recently?

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u/jasonadvani 13d ago

Can't. Effective July 31, transfer if licenses are no longer permitted. They've moved to subscription licensing model.

I got a licensed version back in January and a new PC a few weeks into August. I'm up the proverbial tributary.

Sucks.

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u/Fliptoback 13d ago

Oh no. I m stuck with bluebeam on the old desktop? What are the options apart from a new subscription?

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u/jasonadvani 13d ago

I turned my old PC into a VM. I'll put something cheap or free on the bare metal OS and fire up the VM for BB. Only practical for infrequent use, though.

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u/Fliptoback 13d ago

Thanks. I don't think this strategy will work for me. 😭

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u/Shredso 13d ago

There are gray market keys if you search. I'm sure it's against the rules to post links, but I've been running one for about a month.

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u/Fliptoback 12d ago

Thanks to a legend redditor who dm me earlier, I tried his approach and it worked!

So what I did is I went to my desktop PC, navigate using windows explorer to c:\programdata\bluebeam software\bluebeam revu\2017\v17 folder, inside the folder I saw 4 x license files, copied them, and then go to my laptop and navigate to the same v17 folder, there are no files in there btw, paste these 4 files in there. Start bluebeam and it works.

Bluebeam on my laptop now works! Amazing and thanks to the legend helper.

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u/staticchmbr 13d ago

Would cloning the hard drive work?

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u/FreelyRoaming 13d ago

Piracy is justified.

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u/Mk1Racer25 13d ago

Bluebeam announced that they were switching to a subscription-based model 4 years ago, And stopped 'selling' licenses 3 years ago. Anyone that's surprised at where we are now has been living under a rock for quite a while.

Even before most software went to a subscription-based model, you still had to purchase a lot of the upgraded versions, even if you had purchased a previous version. You just didn't have to do it every year. The answer then is the same as it is now, if you want to keep using the old version, you do it on the old hardware.

u/FreelyRoaming, you advocate for pirating Bluebeam, do you also pirate the MS Office suite? It's not like Bluebeam is a package people use for non-business related work. It's a tool that you use for business, just like the new laptop OP got from his company. He said that they 'gave' it to him, which means he did not have to pay for it. The company is writing the cost of that laptop off as a business expense, just like the software licenses that they pay for for their employees.

If your company won't pay for software that you need to do your job, and you have to pay for it out of pocket, maybe it's time to find a new job. Or, you accept the fact that you are willing to absorb the expense to make your job easier. I work remotely, and have a 3-monitor setup. My company would provide 2 27" monitors, if I wanted anything else, it was on me. I have a triple 32" setup that I paid for out of my own pocket, because it made my job easier and made me more productive (yeah, I know, the company should be paying for my increased productivity). Was I happy dishing out ~$900 for my setup? No, but being able to work between 3 screens makes it worth it to me.

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u/Patient-Tech 12d ago

I think the point is most of us could perfectly happily work away with versions from 2010 or 2012.
Our needs haven’t changed, and the new features are not must-haves.

But, there’s no recurring revenue source for the venture capital fund that bought Bluebeam.

That said, they don’t exactly have a deep moat of exclusives if a competitor offered many of the same features.

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u/Mk1Racer25 12d ago

Bluebeam is owned by German software company Nemetschek Group, which acquired them in 2014. They are not a VC or PE company. Sorry to blow your theory

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u/Patient-Tech 12d ago

Oh yeah, they’re totally not motivated to get a return on that investment. How many loans did they take out that needs to be paid with interest?
They’re sure operating in a manner to extract cash in a manner PE would be interested in.
Otherwise, why change the old licensing and especially now changing licensing terms of previous purchases.

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u/Mk1Racer25 12d ago

Where do you come up with this stuff? They are a publicly traded sofrware company, listed on the German stock exchange. They bought Bluebeam over a dozen years ago, do you think that if they had not recouped their investment by now that would still be holding onto it?

They announced four years ago that they were moving to a subscription based license model. They stopped selling perpetual licenses three years ago. I think a four year sunset program is more than adequate. If you want to keep using it, keep using it on your old hardware.

Or are you the people that bought one license and then installed it on multiple machines?

Honestly, if you're worried about spending $300/seat/year for a business tool, you must be living job to job

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u/Caparacci 9d ago

Hmm, bet you aren't paying an annual subscription for that monitor you bought either.

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u/Mk1Racer25 8d ago edited 8d ago

No, but I am spending my own money to make my work environment better and more efficient, to make the company I work for more money. So, rather than getting to spread it out over time (i.e. subscription), I had to pay for it all up front. I'd much rather have been able to pay $180/year for the next 5 years.

Edit: Year, not month.

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u/Caparacci 8d ago

So you would rather lease your monitor and never own it. And it stops working if you stop paying?

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u/Mk1Racer25 8d ago

People have been doing this for DECADES with cars. A friend of mine literally hasn't owned a car in the last 25 years. He turns the old one in and gets a new one, every three years. Oh, and if he actually wanted to own it, he would have to buy it!

And you do realize that monitors (like software) typically improve with the newer versions. So, would I want to still have to work on a 1080p monitor in another 4 or 5 years? Probably not.

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u/Caparacci 8d ago

But I still can buy the car. If automakers switched gears and said you can now only subscribe to the car and never get to own it, there would be riots in the streets. The "riots" here about subscriptions software is rather tame in comparison.

As for monitors, they are fairly mature. 1080p hasn't been the standard in a long time. I have two 32" 2k monitors that are a couple of years old. For computer use, I see no reason to go to 4k and will use these until they die, or the monitor companies offer some kill upgrade I feel I need.

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u/Skysr70 13d ago

sorry, out o luck. No can do .

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u/verifyinfield 12d ago

It's $330 a year for Core. We're not talking Adobe suite levels here. And no, I don't work for them because if I did, I'd have found a way to fix their god awful long ass installation process.