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Bluebeam as an estimating tool

Bluebeam as an estimating tool - Bluebeam Tutorial

From the course: Bluebeam: Tips and Tricks

Bluebeam as an estimating tool

- [Instructor] Bluebeam Revu has so many tools and features in it that sometimes it's easy to overlook some of the things that you can actually use this software to do as a construction professional or somebody in the AEC industry. I think one of the things that you should be leveraging Bluebeam Revu to do is using it as a takeoff and estimating tool. And a lot of people don't even realize that Bluebeam Revu is perfectly suited for creating takeoffs and estimates. So most of you are already familiar with things like this, putting markups on the screen and comments and clouds. And a lot of you are even familiar with the fact that it has the ability to do things like calculate the area of a particular room. But when you take all of these abilities and combine them with the markup list down here at the bottom of the screen, what you will actually find is that you've got the ability to use Bluebeam Revu as a full on takeoff…

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