From the course: Learning Bluebeam Revu: Version 2018 to Version 20

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Using the markup tools

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- [Instructor] Throughout this course, I've made some references to Bluebeam Revu's markup features and here back on our sample set of drawings, I've actually applied the cloud and comment tool, several times and the cloud tool once over here. Now what I want to do, is delve a little deeper into these tools and look at all of the different types of markups that we can use here in Bluebeam Revu. Now, these markup tools, I think, are really where Bluebeam begins to differentiate itself and it's where we really start to see some tool sets that are made specifically for our industry. Now don't forget, I discuss this at the beginning of the course, Revu contains dozens and dozens of different editing and markup tools. Things that allow us to circle, highlight, cloud, draw, sketch, add symbols and notes to a document, there's just a lot of tools. Don't forget to customize the software as you go along and start to build toolbars that work the way you want Bluebeam Revu to work. Let's take a look at some of the more common types of markups. First of all, let's go ahead and zoom in on some text here. If we go to Tools and Markup, you'll see all the different types of markup tools. I can add a text box to this document. I can type text directly into the document. We'll look at notes and callouts. What I want to look at now is the highlight tool. This just allows me to quickly highlight text, anywhere in my PDF document. You can see as I go along here, I'm just quickly highlighting text, so that's one quick method of marking up. I can also add all kinds of lines and arrows. Let's take a look at this arrow markup here. You'll see, all I do is click on the document where I want the starting point for the arrow to be, hold the mouse key down and drag that cursor to where I want the arrow to end up. And you'll see that, as long as I hold that down, I can draw this arrow or line at any angle I want. One trick though, is if you hold the Shift key down, you'll see, now the arrow snaps to 45 or 90 degree angles. If you're trying to get a precise angle drawn, just hold the Shift key down as you move the cursor, when you release the cursor, it's going to apply that arrow or line to the document. Now I've already demonstrated the cloud and comment feature, couple of times throughout the course. Let's look at changing the properties or the look of that cloud and comment feature though. For example, how do I get that text to be a little larger? The first thing you want to do is, down at the bottom of the screen, you want to make sure you have the select tool enabled. That's the arrow icon down here at the bottom. With that select tool, I'm going to go ahead and put my cursor over that markup and click on it once and you'll see doing that selected the markup. Now, here's where I can do things like resize that cloud. If all I wanted to cloud was the lower half, I can just grab these yellow handles and drag that down to change the size of the cloud. I can also grab this handle and move the connecting point or the connecting line to the comment. You also might have noticed that when I selected this markup tool, a properties toolbar appeared at the top of the screen. Now, this properties toolbar is what allows me to change the properties of virtually any type of markup that I could add here in Bluebeam Revu. And the options for changing the properties, just depend on the type of markup you have. Since this markup includes a cloud, you'll see I have here the ability to change the line-style, currently it's set to cloud. I could change it to dashed lines and you'll see that here. I want to change it back to cloud though. I have the ability to change the color of that cloud to virtually anything that I want. I also have the ability to add some fill, if I want to make that stand out a little bit. Let's do kind of a lighter color there and that allows me to add some fill to the cloud. Right next to the fill property, is the fill opacity. And again, if you hover over these, it should tell you what it is. If I lower that down, you'll see that now I'm making that fill, see-through. And actually, let's select that and do one more thing, down here at the bottom. Let's double-click and make sure we've highlighted our text. And this'll give us the ability, if we scroll over here, to change the font. We'll change the font, we'll just pick this first one here, change the font style and then we can change the font size, right next to it, and enlarge that till we're happy with the font size. Now, notice when we did that, the text flowed because the box that we selected wasn't big enough, so just click out of it. Go ahead and select that again and drag one of these handles and resize your text box, till it's the right size. And again, you can continue to change as many as these features as you want. You can change this line color and size. We could change the font color, again if we scroll over, right now our font color is red. Let's go ahead and change it to blue, so it kind of matches our cloud. Again, really easy ways to customize all of your markups. Now like I said earlier, there are numerous ways that you can add markups to your drawing, that was a quick primer on some of the different types of markups that you can add. And what was really important in this video is, the ability to use the settings toolbar, that appears when you select a markup, in order to change that markup and make it look the way you want it to look.

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