
It has been the greatest tool that Construction industry personal can have. I am very happy to have this software on my personal computer as well as work computer Bluebeam has saved me tonns of time for editing files/documents and reviewing drawings for construction. User Interface for Bluebeam is very simple and brilliant. You can clearly see all tools/items that you can use. The ease of access and availability of many editing options very quickly are one of the big time savers. Only issue that I ever faced is, Bluebeam takes more space on your computer compared to Adobe Acrobat reader. Sometimes it lags in operation if you are using heavy softwares like AutoCAD,/ Revit at the same time. This probably can be fixed by having better configuration of computer. But software maker should really focus on reducing the software file size after installing. Untrustworthy Developer - Dropped the ballīrings a lot of features and functionality missing from Acrobat.

To my knowledge, no other PDF software is geared towards the A+E market.

I wish there was another one out there so that these guys didn't have a monopoly on the market. Following this procedure requires use of Bluebeam Revu eXtreme 2020, 2019, or 2018. It has given them a sense of invincibility that has led to stagnation and a lack of genuine support for their customers. Screenshots and instructions in this procedure use Bluebeam 2018/2019.). I've been using Revu for about 8 years, 5 of those on Windows. The last 3 are at my most recent job, and when I found out that Bluebeam had created a Revu for Mac, I was quick to push our company to adopt. I even gave a lunchtime presentation to show everyone some of the really powerful features I had come to know and love from the windows side. Playing with the trial version of 1.0, though, I quickly realized that a ton of features were absent from the windows version. I went ahead and gave the presentation anyway, though and with some convincing, we bought seats for everyone.

It became clear within the first week of using the software, though, that it was incredibly slow. It took several seconds to render every page. considering that we regularly deal with 100+ page architectural sets, this made the program worthless in a lot of cases.

What's more we really felt the lack of some features from the windows side, many of which were so basic that it's laughable that Bluebeam decided not to invest in them. Anyway, when bluebeam for mac 2.0 came out, we bought in thinking that we'd be getting all of the features that we were missing along with performance improvements. Turns out they decided to revamp the UI with almost 0 feature inclusions. The performance of page rendering was significantly improved, which was helpful, although page thumbnails now no longer load.
