Once you place your Legend on your document, with the handles still active, open the Legend’s properties tab. Scroll down to the appearance section and click on the dropdown arrow for the Source field. It is here you can change what the Legend counts to Current Page, All Pages or a Custom Range as shown in the sample below:

You’ll likely want to place the totals for the whole document on a title page and I would recommend you change the Title of the Legend to “Totals for this Project”.
While we’re here I should mention that you can also add columns to your Legend using Edit Columns and Change the Legend’s Table Style. If you do select the Gridlines Table Style, you’ll need to remember to adjust your line width to something greater than zero so the gridlines display.

If you haven’t used Legends before you may want to review how to use Legends for your Estimating Takeoffs. It’s also recommended you create Legends and add them to your tools sets. This video should help:

You can also use Legends in the Punch Workflow to display punch issues by disciple and status. watch this video to review the process:

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When using the Pen tool you can have Bluebeam automatically recognize your handwriting before placing the markup. It places the associated text in the comments column of the Markups list for you. To turn this on, adjust your Revu preferences for your tablet.

Go to Preferences (Ctrl-K)| Select Tablet | Check the Auto Recognize Text box

This option only appears if you have a tablet PC, touch screen or tablet device attached to your computer and is unchecked as the default in Bluebeam Revu. If you use a Surface Pro or other tablet PC you’ll want to change this today.
It works best with hand printed text.

The sensitivity is for pressure sensitivity when using the pen or highlight tool. Pressing down firm produces a thicker line. Note that not all tablet devices support pressure sensitivity.

This comes in handy when you don’t have a custom punch symbol with the specific description you need. You can then lasso multiple markups together like a punch symbol and the pen markup and group them together, or in my case above, the arrow and the pen markup.

If you liked this tip you might also like:
Bluebeam Revu iPad tips: Adding audio, video and perform field measurements

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Line Styles for paths, roadways, pipelines, fencing, railways, boundaries and borders are often used in illustrations and appear on construction plans. Custom line styles can be applied to Arrow, Ellipse, Line, Polyline, Rectangle, Polygon and Cloud markups. Use the custom Line Style editor to make your own custom line styles.

Custom line styles can be created using dashes, text, spaces, dots and vector graphics literally providing you with the option to create any shape or size. The custom Line Style editor gives you the ability to have multiple lines with varying characteristics that’s great for producing road patterns and other complex designs. Here’s a Bluebeam video on how to make your own line styles and share them with your peers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ml0ch215o

Note: You can apply limited styles to the Dimension tool as well.

What unique line styles have you created? Email me a few you’re proud of and I’ll append them to this post (with a kudos to you and your firm)!

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If you want to close all your files but one quickly, just right click on the file tab you want to keep open and you’ll see the option “Close Other Tabs” in the drop-down list. Simple and fast, that’s what I like about Bluebeam.

If you have time, here are more right click tips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrEG6YgxGnY

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