- [Instructor] I've show you how to go digital
to manage your construction drawings and your processes,
and I've shown you how to do that
using quite a few different systems or apps.
Since there is a choice of programs out there
to work with digital drawings,
I do get asked quite a bit about what happens
if I'm using one system, like Procore here,
or PlanGrid, or Fieldwire,
but the designer is working in something else,
like Bluebeam.
Well, that's easy, because when I talked about
the fact that this whole process
of working with digital drawings
revolves around a single file format,
and that's PDF.
As I've demonstrated, no matter what system we're using,
the drawings started out as a PDF file
when we put them into our system.
So all I need to do is get it back out as a PDF.
No matter what system I'm in,
let's go to PlanGrid where I created that RFI.
Let's say I emailed that RFI form
directly to the designer,
and that's great it's has the description
and the information on it,
but the designer doesn't want to work in PlanGrid,
has his own system, he wants to look at this in Bluebeam.
That's easy.
All I have to do, here on my sheet,
is click on download.
And I want to download this sheet
with all of the markups and click on generate.
At this point, it asks me what I want to do
with this sheet that I just generated.
I'm just going to save it.
Now I could do the same thing
in Procore by selecting that foundation plan,
if this is where I created my RFI.
And again, clicking on download drawings.
And bim360 docs.
Same thing.
Simply click the check mark.
Here's my download icon.
Even over here in Fieldwire,
find my foundation plan, click on that,
use the dropdown box under Actions.
In this case, it's not called download,
it's called export.
The way they handle it, if you saw that
dialogue box, is that they will email me
the exported PDF file.
We created that RFI in PlanGrid
so we've already downloaded it.
We've got a dialogue box here at the bottom
that asks me what I want to do with it.
Let's go ahead and click on open.
It's going to open in, say I'm the engineer now,
I'm using Bluebeam.
When I clicked on open, since that's how
I open my PDF files, it opened here in Bluebeam.
Here's that same drawing that we just looked at
in PlanGrid, but it's in Bluebeam now.
Let's look at what the designer can do
with that drawing.
When I open up my markup list,
these markups, this red cloud and this text,
are all showing down here in the markup list.
So let's say the engineer looked at it,
they read our request for information,
and they agree, yes, this dimension is wrong,
it's not supposed to be three foot 11,
it's supposed to be, we'll just say, five feet.
They could come in and right-click
and just delete these markups.
Basically get rid of the markups that we added.
We'll close that to give a little more room to view it.
They can use the Bluebeam tool bar
and the cloud and comment feature
to highlight that dimension that we now know is incorrect,
and type something like, 'Revision 1:
change to five feet.'
Without even leaving Bluebeam,
they could come right over here,
go to the markup tools, and use the typewriter tool
to just do something like type, 'Rev 1.'
We'll just give it a date.
'Fixed stair dimensions.'
And then they could go ahead and go to
the documents toolbar and use the flatten tool.
So right now those are markups,
just like any markup that we added.
But engineers don't like markups
that we might be able to manipulate later.
Or designers don't like markups that
we might be able to manipulate later.
So that designer can go ahead and click on flatten.
We're going to flatten all markups, everything.
And that basically burns those comments
right into the drawing, right onto the page.
So I've just created a revision one drawing with this cloud.
You see, there's no markups there.
They're actually burned into the page.
And I'm now ready, as the designer, to save this.
I can click on email right from Bluebeam
and send it right back to the general contractor
that requested this information.
And once I send that back,
the contractor can then just handle this
like any drawing revision.
I just, very quickly, showed you how to pull
a marked up drawing out of one system,
drop it into another system, and mark it up with revisions.
Now that this is that revision one drawing,
it can be sent out and uploaded into
our drawing system as a new revision,
just like I showed you a few episodes ago
when we discussed plan revisions and drawing management.
Now I've created these revisions here
that I just showed you in Bluebeam review.
There's a lot of functions and tools and features
that you can see on the screen right now.
I already have several Bluebeam courses
here in the online library for you to view,
if you want to learn more about this particular software.