topic Re: Curious about Bluebeam PDF product in Collaboration with other software

Curious about Bluebeam PDF product

Anonymous — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:26:33 GMT

It doesn't say it works with ArchiCAD. Does anyone know anything about this product?

Re: Curious about Bluebeam PDF product

Laura Yanoviak — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:47:44 GMT

We use it. I'm not sure what you mean by "works with ArchiCAD" -- you can "Print to" Bluebeam PDF ("Saving to" PDF uses ArchiCAD's built-in converter).

Re: Curious about Bluebeam PDF product

Anonymous — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:55:50 GMT

They mention AutoCAD and Solidworks all over the place (and ArchiCAD isn't mentioned in their FAQs)... I honestly just riff'd through their website for about three minutes this morning. So, just generally, two questions:

1) Is it a good user interface for clients?
2) Would the workflow from ArchiCAD on MacOSX be impossible (or a pain)?

Re: Curious about Bluebeam PDF product

Gerald Hoffman — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:52:07 GMT

They mention AutoCAD and Solidworks because if you buy that version it will install print icons into those programs. We don't need this as we are able to print out pdfs as Laura said.

I just bought the standard version of Bluebeam after trying the free 30 trial. IMHO it is better for markups than Acrobat. It has a lot more markup tools and they have more customizable options. Unless you need Acrobat 3D I think this is all you need for pdf markups. Anyway you can try it for 30 days for free. Just get the standard version unless you want AutoCAD integration.

I found a web site that you can purchase it for $30 off the Bluebeam site price if you are interested.

http://www.novedge.com/p/1407?ITS=CMPt

Cheers

Re: Curious about Bluebeam PDF product

Rakela Raul — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:18:38 GMT

dont you like the MacPro 'preview' PDF editing tool ?? very decent IMHO