- [Instructor] Let's take a look
at working with digital drawings
using a piece of software called Bluebeam Revu.
So I'm going to take the same sample drawings
that we've been working with
and double-click on them,
but this time, they're going to open up
in Bluebeam Revu eXtreme.
Now, I haven't done anything to process these drawings yet,
so I still have one file with all 93 sheets
that are included in it.
Bluebeam does have features,
like some of the other software we looked at,
that will allow you to extract all of these sheets
and then work with them together as a set.
And if you want to learn how to do that with Bluebeam
or really learn about any of the tools and features
that are included in Bluebeam,
we have several Bluebeam courses here in the online library
that you can take a look at
and find lots of different topics.
What I want to do here in this segment
is I want to show you one of the things
that we haven't talked much about so far
on working with digital drawings
and that is using digital drawings
for your estimating purposes or quantity takeoffs.
Now, Bluebeam has a lot of features that are built in
and that they continue to enhance over time
that allow you to do quantity takeoffs
on your construction drawings.
So let's take a look at those
and see how easy it is to do quantity takeoffs
with digital drawings.
And it'll actually save you time
compared to the way you use to do it
with paper drawings.
I'm going to start out with our architectural site plan,
and what I want to do is I want to start,
you'll see that there are not many measurements
on this drawing,
so I want to go ahead and fix that.
I want to add some measurements,
I want to do some quantity takeoffs,
maybe look at how much concrete here
is in our oddly-shaped driveway,
and show you how easy that is to do.
So, first, we need to calibrate the scale,
and to do that, I'm going to zoom in
and see that the scale for this page
is one inch equals 10 feet.
And over on the right side of the page,
I'm going to go ahead and open up my Properties tool pane
and click on Measurements.
So there's two ways
that I can calibrate the scale in Bluebeam.
I can directly type it in here,
which is what I'm going to do now.
I'm going to enter in one inch equals 10 feet,
and I'm going to set my Precision to hundredths of an inch.
And, at that point, I should be calibrated.
My scale is now set for this page,
and I can choose to store the scale in that page as well.
Now, if I didn't know what my scale was
or I wasn't quite sure,
the other thing that I could do,
and this drawing's not going to help us out much
because it doesn't have any measurements on it,
but if I had a measurement,
it does say this sidewalk is three-foot wide,
instead of directly typing it in,
I could just click on Calibrate,
and it's going to tell me to select two points
to calibrate the measuring tool.
So let's close that out.
That's the other way that you can calibrate.
But since I've got it entered,
and my measuring tool is now calibrated,
and let's see how easy it is to start measuring things
on this digital drawing.
I'm going to go ahead and click on just the Length tool,
and you'll see here
that I'm able to actually snap to the intersections
or the corners of this driveway.
So I'm just going to click once on the mouse,
and I'm going to click again at the end,
and you'll see this driveway is 20 feet.
So it says this is the Garage.
Let's fix that.
And we're going to highlight or select the markup
that we just added.
And any time I don't like the color or the label
that Bluebeam puts on a markup,
I can just click to highlight it
and then click the gears icon, which is the Properties icon,
and I want to just go ahead and get rid of that label.
I don't need a label on it.
I just want to add a dimension.
So we've got some dimensions added there.
Go back to my measuring tool, and let's do one more.
Let's go ahead and do an Area measurement.
And we'll snap to the corner of this garage
and just drag a rectangle out,
and you'll see my garage is 802.9 square feet.
So it's really easy to start adding markups
and measurements on this drawing.
Let's go up here and undo these
and just get them out of our way,
and show you one more way that you can measure things
on these drawings.
For this, I want to go to the top of the page
and click on Measure,
and I'm going to choose this Dynamic Fill option.
And I also want to zoom back out.
What I want to do is I want an easy way to find the area
of this oddly-shaped driveway.
So let's zoom in just a little bit,
and we're going to click on the paint bucket icon,
and we're just going to start painting in this driveway.
And the software's going to recognize when I reach the edges,
and it's just going to fill in the driveway.
And you'll see it kind of spilled out onto the street here
because there's no line to tell the software
that that's the end of the driveway.
So Bluebeam's got an easy way to fix that.
We just click the icon next to the paint bucket,
which is the Add a Boundary tool,
and we're going to pick the start of our boundary
and double-click to end our boundary.
And so we've added a line that tells it,
"Hey, you've reached the end of the driveway,"
and it immediately got rid of everything
that spilled out into the street.
So, at this point, we have highlighted and selected,
let's zoom out so we can see the whole driveway,
we've highlighted and selected the entire driveway.
To get the area, I'm going to choose the Area tool.
So I'll click that and click on Apply.
And now let's zoom in,
and you'll see it's now telling me
that what I have highlighted or shaded in on my drawing
is 2,504 square feet.
Let's go ahead and select everything we just did
and click on the Properties icon.
And I want to just go ahead,
and we'll put a little bit of fill in there.
Let's just choose the Brick icon.
And zoom out again and show you what that looks like.
So I can do things like shading or hatching
that help me remember
when I've already measured something on the drawings.