How To Overlay Drawings In Bluebeam

Never miss a change on a revision with Overlay and compare in Revu
So often I'g asked which should I do, Compare Documents or Overlay Pages to come across what's changed in a new revision. When you perform Overlay Pages nothing gets added to the Markups list. When you perform Compare Documents you lot get clouds and Differences in the Markups listing just it's easy to miss something when more one item changes in the overcast area. Today I'm maxim do both and you'll see how it makes Comparisons better. I learned this play a trick on while attending the 2022 Bluebeam Extreme Conference.

First, a few tips on comparisons. The improve the drawings, the improve the comparing results. If you tin can, request vector drawings.
Revisions should too be issued every bit full sheets to make the process easier. See these and other guidelines for working in PDF at world wide web.cpcoalition.com

If working with a unmarried folio revision, under Certificate | Comparison run the Compare Documents and chose Export from within the markups panel on the diff file (run across Steps 1 and 2 below), and so salve the exported markups file with the name differences.bax
Never miss a revision with compare documents and Overlay pages in Bluebeam Revu
Side by side, under Document | Comparison run the Overlay Pages so Import the saved markups file, differences.bax, into the overlay. The results are shown in the first epitome at the pinnacle of this commodity.

What you lot finish upwards with is a certificate both clouded and showing the overlaid differences. The do good of doing both comparison processes is that y'all accept a better way to review the changes. Oftentimes, the deject may include multiple differences which the overlay conspicuously points out. Zoom in on the page then click on the first departure in the markup list. Equally you piece of work through them, use the checkmark cavalcade in the Markups Listing to verify that you've noted each change. This is ideal for estimators who need to ensure they don't miss anything and are concerned with multiple differences that are in close proximity… that tin appear in a unmarried clouded area. It also addresses small changes in a revision that architects may take forgotten to cloud.

If you use Revu'southward Sets feature, Batch Compare and Batch Overlay features can exist run directly from within your Set and either can be run against cartoon revisions. Simply right-click one of the revisions and select either Batch Compare or Batch Overlay, as desired. If you are not familiar with Sets or the Batch functions, you may desire to review the videos available under Help | Resources for these topics.

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