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Create custom counting shapes - Bluebeam Tutorial
From the course: Bluebeam: Tips and Tricks
Create custom counting shapes
- [Instructor] In previous episodes of Bluebeam: Tips and Tricks, I showed you how to quickly customize the look of your counting tool markups. And I showed you how to do that using the built-in counting tool shapes, such as triangles, circles, squares, et cetera. And when I did that, I started getting a bunch of questions related to, well how do I make my markups look like this? So, if we zoom in, how do I make these customized or custom shape markups that become a symbol that look like what they are. So this looks like a recessed wall mount. I have one here that looks like a smoke alarm. How do you do that kind of customization to your count tools? Well let me see if I can quickly show you how to do that, because it takes a few steps. First of all, let's delete these ones that we just put in here by right-clicking and selecting delete. So, the answer is, you basically have to create your own drawing, turn it into a…
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What's new in Bluebeam Revu 20184m 3s
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Navigate the new interface in Revu 20187m 2s
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The new markup properties bar4m 47s
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Keyboard shortcuts and customizations6m 59s
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What happened to Bluebeam Vu?4m 27s
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The new Bluebeam Studio interface5m 13s
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Setting global preferences5m 9s
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Bluebeam on multiple computers5m 29s
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Find the toolbars you need5m 22s
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Customize those toolbars5m 39s
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Set up panel access6m 39s
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Why don't all my keyboard shortcuts work?3m 4s
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Get the right mouse, be more productive3m 3s
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All PDFs are not created equal9m 57s
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Fix problems with Text Search3m 41s
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Open a website in Bluebeam Revu2m 57s
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Make sure Bluebeam Revu is up-to-date5m 15s
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Use the Visual Search tool9m 54s
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Missing Microsoft Office plugins3m 45s
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Be more productive with right-clicks4m 59s
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Turn on the Navigation Bar3m 28s
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Leverage split-screen functionality6m 36s
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Using the Hyperlink tool6m 53s
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Convert text URLs to hyperlinks4m 33s
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Automatic hyperlinks within a document6m 37s
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Use the Snapshot tool5m 15s
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Quickly make a markup permanent1m 58s
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Quickly apply a stamp to every page2m 34s
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Attachment tool4m 23s
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Work faster with the File Access panel3m 47s
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Be more efficient with drag and drop2m 52s
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Translate markups into any language2m 4s
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Translate the PDF into any language2m 56s
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Add more leader lines to callouts5m 47s
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Get organized with layers6m 11s
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Organize your tools into sets5m 17s
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Drawing mode vs. Properties mode3m 11s
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Find more tool sets4m 16s
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Assign your tools to layers3m 47s
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Make stamps with dynamic content5m 11s
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Secure your markups7m 44s
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Using the Flatten and Unflatten tools9m 10s
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Finding the Back button in Bluebeam3m 59s
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Overlay new versions of plan sheets3m 25s
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Compare Documents5m 6s
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Reduce your file size for faster sharing4m 28s
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Email with one click2m 32s
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Manage Spell Check and Auto-Complete4m 46s
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Add headers and footers to your docs8m 30s
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Give a presentation In Revu2m 13s
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Export to PowerPoint5m 47s
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Create a spreadsheet from a schedule3m 23s
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Be more efficient with the status bar5m 44s
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Add web content to your PDF3m 41s
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Scheduling Placeholder Movie6m
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Create your own digital signature6m 6s
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Export your digital ID's public key4m 34s
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Get an ID from a certificate authority5m 41s
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Digitally sign a document6m 30s
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Validate a digital signature6m 5s
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Certify a document6m 28s
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Modify a certified document4m 21s
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Adding a seal to a digital signature4m 52s
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Use DocuSign with Bluebeam5m 18s
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Create a fillable form with Revu eXtreme8m 32s
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Turn a digital file into a fillable form5m 7s
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Create a fillable form from a template5m 25s
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Installing major release updates6m 30s
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The new Revu rendering engine5m 58s
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Set a PDF to open on start1m 56s
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Navigate quickly with thumbnails3m 35s
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Three ways to stamp to multiple pages4m 15s
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Add sheet labels to each page4m 11s
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Find a sample blueprint2m 13s
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Bluebeam as an estimating tool2m 14s
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Set the scale for the measuring tools5m 42s
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Improve accuracy5m 23s
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Simultaneous length, area, and volume4m 58s
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Use Dynamic Fill for irregular shapes3m 47s
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Create a formula column5m
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Set multiple scales on a page4m 52s
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Use sublayers for different trades5m 37s
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Create custom area tools4m 53s
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Create custom count tools5m 27s
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Create custom counting shapes8m 35s
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Use a custom tool with Dynamic Fill4m 42s
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Use VisualSearch for quantity takeoffs5m 45s
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Show quantity labels in your markups3m 27s
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Add line segment lengths to markups2m 13s
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Export the Markups list to Excel5m 45s
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