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Compare Bluebeam Revu versions

Bluebeam offers three plans tailored for various office and field project needs. Each package includes Bluebeam Revu, Bluebeam Cloud (web & mobile) solutions, and services to boost productivity.

Basics

Essential tools for marking up and managing back office and AECO
project documents.

Core

Comprehensive tools for managing and collaborating on small-and mid-sized AECO projects. Includes everything in Basics, plus enhanced features.

Complete

Everything needed to manage and optimise complex AECO projects at scale. Includes everything in Basics and Core, plus advanced features.

Bluebeam Revu

Key features include:

  • Content management and creation, including PDF editing,
    manipulating, hyperlinking, resizing and organising
  • Create PDFs from any Windows files and import and export
    to/from Microsoft Office
  • PDF markup annotation, tracking and manipulation,
    including dynamic stamps and hyperlinks
  • Application, toolbar and markup personalisation
  • Digital signature, OCR
  • SharePoint® and ProjectWise® integrations
  • Basic measurement— length & area only

Bluebeam Revu + Studio

All Basics features, plus:

  • Real-time collaboration in Studio—including creation of new Studio Sessions/Projects
  • AECO 3rd party solution content creation and automations (AutoCAD, Revit)
  • Markup on specialty content (like 3D PDF) and take-off tools
  • Specialty markups— capture, custom hatch patterns, sketch to scale
  • Basic reporting, custom status creation
  • Advanced document navigation—sets, visual search
  • Overlay and compare

Bluebeam Revu + Studio

All Basics & Core features, plus:

  • Advanced measurement tools—volume, angle, cutout
  • Advanced automations for scaling projects
  • Batch digital signature and professional seal, batch slip- sheeting and batch hyperlinks
  • Advanced reporting
  • Scripting
  • Dynamic Fill

Bluebeam Cloud (Web & Mobile):

  • Easy markup & collaboration with the
    Markup Editor

Bluebeam Cloud (Web & Mobile):

  • Easy markup & collaboration with the Markup Editor
  • Manage defects, RFIs and submittals with Field Tools

Bluebeam Cloud (Web & Mobile):

  • Easy markup & collaboration with the Markup Editor
  • Manage defects, RFIs and submittals with Field Tools

Services:

  • Unlimited centralised storage
    (Markup Editor only)
  • Partner-built integrations
  • Bluebeam University
  • Bluebeam’s technical support

Services:

  • Unlimited centralised storage
    (Markup Editor only)
  • Partner-built integrations
  • Bluebeam University
  • Bluebeam’s technical support
  • Geolocational insights

Services:

  • Unlimited centralised storage
    (Markup Editor only)
  • Partner-built integrations
  • Bluebeam University
  • Bluebeam’s technical support
  • Geolocational insights

Document markup and tracking

BasicsCoreComplete
Annotate PDFs with markups such as customised text, shapes, and stamps
Track and manage annotations
Save and reuse tools from the tool chest
Change the tool subject and add a comment in the tool chest
Set and remove scale from tool sets
Assign markups to layers
Flatten PDF markups
Import PDF markups
Redact PDF content permanently
Translate markups to different languages
Create and add dynamic stamps to PDFs
2D photo markups
Insert hyperlinks into documents and assign a hyperlink to a specific area
Create custom markup list filters and save them for reuse
Embed 2D photos in markups with capture
Embed 360° photos and videos in markups with capture
Calibrate tool sets to dynamically resize on PDFs with different scales/viewports
Create and save markup legends to the tool chest
Create, view and apply custom hatch patterns
Create calibrated polygons, polylines, rectangles, and ellipses using sketch to scale tools
Create custom statuses
Filter and sort markups and comments in the markups list

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Content creation, access & management

BasicsCoreComplete
Add or edit headers and footers
Combine separate documents to create a single PDF
Customise the size of new pages and resize existing pages
Embed file attachments
Erase and cut PDF content
Extract, delete, rotate and insert blank pages
Insert existing PDF pages
Preserve hyperlinks when combining and separating linked PDFs
View 3D PDFs
Create a table of contents from bookmarks
Reduce file size using preset and customisable fidelity options
Split documents without altering the source file
Create and edit form fields
Manually create bookmarks and page labels
Automatically create bookmarks and page labels
Mark up 3D views
Process colors
Create, mark up and manipulate 3D PDFs from any IFC or U3D file
Open, create and modify sets, and tag files to sort and navigate sets documents

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Navigation & personalisation

BasicsCoreComplete
Launch multiple instances of Revu
Access and view recent PDFs
Drag document tabs out of interface and into their own windows across multiple monitors
Change markup properties and save for reuse
Create customisable keyboard shortcuts
Search local drives and pin files in categories
Transform scanned images into text-searchable PDFs using optical character recognition (OCR)
Search for symbols with VisualSearch

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Measurement tools

BasicsCoreComplete
Apply measurements of different scales in one PDF using viewports
Measure PDFs with basic measurement tools for length and area
Measure PDFs with advanced measurement tools such as perimeter, volume, angle and count
Add formulas to custom columns for calculations
Link real-time data from measurement markups to Excel worksheets with quantity link
Section off and fill drawing regions to generate markups, measurements and spaces with dynamic fill

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Studio in Revu

BasicsCoreComplete
Collaborate in real time with markup tools in existing studio sessions
View and upload files to existing studio projects and studio sessions
Sync studio project files locally for offline editing
Create new studio projects and studio sessions

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Plug-ins & integrations

BasicsCoreComplete
One-click PDF creation and batch directly from Microsoft® Office and Outlook®
Integrate with SharePoint® and ProjectWise®
Convert any Windows file to PDF or TIF, JPG, BMP, PSD, PNG, PCL, GIF, EMF and WMF files using the Bluebeam PDF printer
Export scanned PDFs as editable Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® documents
One-click 2D PDF creation and batch directly from AutoCAD®, Revit® and SolidWorks®
One-click 3D PDF creation directly from AutoCAD, Revit and Navisworks®
Convert Revit rooms to Revu spaces
Batch convert files from AutoCAD, Revit and SolidWorks to PDF, TIF, JPG, BMP, PSD, PNG, PCL, GIF, EMF and WMF files
Transfer hyperlinks from an AutoCAD file
Import files with SHX fonts from AutoCAD
Import sheet sets from AutoCAD

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Security & digital signatures

BasicsCoreComplete
Add digital signature fields that require certified digital IDs
Track all digital signatures and certificates
Apply password protection and set permissions

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Automation

BasicsCoreComplete
Use automatic form creation to convert PDFs into forms
Merge form data
Apply scale to multiple sheets simultaneously
Batch compare multiple drawing revisions
Automatically create navigational hyperlinks across a specific group of documents using batch link®
Batch process hyperlinks for large document sets
Automatically insert new page revisions or replace current pages with new revisions across multiple documents using batch slip sheet
Apply a digital signature and professional seal across a batch of multiple files
Implement scripting commands

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Export project data

BasicsCoreComplete
Generate and export a PDF summary of all markups in a file or across multiple files
Generate and export a CSV or XML summary of all markups in a file
Track and generate reports on markups located in pre-defined customised regions
Create markup summary reports with customised filter and sort options

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Markup editor

BasicsCoreComplete
Upload files of any type to secure cloud document storage
View PDFs, update, delete and export files from cloud document storage
Annotate PDFs with markups such as customised text, shapes and vector pen
Collaborate in real time with markup tools on drawings and documents
Save and reuse tools from the tool chest
Track and manage markups
Use and change markup statuses in the markups list
Comment and reply

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

Field tools

BasicsCoreComplete
Create new projects
Upload and publish drawings
Add drawings to map view for geolocational insights
Invite project partners to collaborate
Integrate with OneDrive®, SharePoint, Dropbox™, Box, Google Drive™ and Egnyte™
Create, respond to, forward RFIs, and post RFIs on drawings and map view
Export RFI logs
Create punch items, comment, add photos, and post punch items on drawings and map view
Change punch item status and export punch report
Import and export submittal log
Create, review and respond to submittals

Key:

Comprehensive

Limited

Not Applicable

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