Bluebeam Revu – Estimating Level 1

Taught exclusively by Curtek, this one-day, instructor-led classroom course promises to shorten your staff’s learning curve and maximize your investment in Revu by:

• Providing hands-on instruction by an experienced Senior Estimator
• Focusing on the best practices needed to use Revu to achieve greater productivity
• Delivering frequent skills reinforcement through hands-on classroom activities, contextual feedback, quizzing and discussion
• Applying a progressive learning structure where each learning module builds on previous learning objectives
• Equipping learners with takeaway reference material, including practice files and a reference workbook to use beyond the classroom

Course Outline

The Bluebeam Revu: Estimating curriculum includes the following modules:

Module 1: Introduction

• Course introduction
• Introduction to Revu as an Estimating tool
• Classroom Exercise

Module 2: Takeoff Profile and Tool Sets

• Review of Profiles
• Specific Settings unique to the Takeoff Profile
• Recommended Interface Customizations
• Bluebeam’s Estimating Tool Sets
• Creating Custom Tool Sets
• Working with Measurement Tools & Tools Sets

Module 3: Layers

• Overview of Layers
• Working with existing Layers
• Removing and adding Layers
• Adding markups to Layers
• Exploring the possibilities of Layers
• Classroom Exercise

Module 4: Setting the Scale

• The STS Method
• Setting the Scale Manually
• Testing the Scale
• Storing the Scale
• Calibration
• Using different / multiple units of measurement
• Classroom Exercise

Module 5: Viewports

• What are Viewports
• Recognizing when you have Viewports
• Removing and adding Viewports
• Setting Viewport Scale
• Classroom Exercise

Module 6: Length Measurements

• Length Measurement
• Perimeter Measurement
• Poly-Length Measurement
• Show all measurements
• Best practices for Length Measurements
• Classroom Exercise

Module 7: Area & Volume Measurements

• Area Measurements
• Volume Measurements
• Show all measurements
• Best practices for Area and Volume Measurements
• Classroom Exercise

Module 8: Dynamic Fill

• What is Dynamic Fill
• What are the limitations of Dynamic Fill
• Using the Boundary Tool
• Using the Fill tool
• Using the Fill area to create measurements
• Classroom Exercise

Module 9: Count Measurements

• Count Tool
• Adding and removing count items
• Creating custom count tools
• Sequences
• Adding and removing sequence items
• Creating custom sequence tools
• Classroom Exercise

Module 10: Search

• Review of the Search function
• Text search
• Counting text search results
• Visual search
• Counting visual search results
• Classroom Exercise

Module 11: Tracking Takeoffs

• Review of the Markups List
• Creating custom columns
• Creating formula columns
• Organizing takeoffs
• Exporting takeoffs
• Linking takeoffs to your estimate spreadsheet
• Classroom Exercise

Module 12: Legends

• What are Legends
• Adding a Legend
• Adding and removing takeoffs from a Legend
• Changing Legend appearance
• Best practices for Legends
• Classroom Exercise

Module 13: Sketch to Scale

• Introduction to Sketch to Scale
• Using Sketch to Scale
• Creating a scaled too set
• Adding Sketch to Scale markups to a scaled tool set
• Using scaled tools
• Classroom Exercise

Module 14: Instructor Session: Questions and Answers

• A working knowledge of the use of personal computers
• Bluebeam Revu Basics training

Helpful

• Familiarity with PDF documents
• Scroll wheel mouse
• Microsoft Office Suite installed
• Familiarity with the use of Microsoft Excel

Any field or office professionals in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry that needs to measure PDF documents.

This course is delivered in partnership between your local construction association and other associations throughout Western Canada. You’ll be participating in a cohort with industry peers from across these regions.

Morgan Garry is a Bluebeam Certified Instructor. He has over a decade of hands-on experience in the construction industry, including owning his own construction company and working for one of the largest GC’s in North America. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in construction management from BYU-Idaho. Most importantly, he’s a trusted expert in using Bluebeam technology on the construction site. Morgan’s classes and training have helped some of the top construction companies in North America to improve processes, workflow, and project management with Bluebeam Revu.

You will need TWO screens for the training to be effective.

• The first screen needs to be a Windows computer with Bluebeam Revu 2019 installed.
• The second screen is to display the Zoom meeting (this could be a second monitor, a larger tablet (9″ +) or a smart phone displayed on to a TV.

You will need a fully functioning version of Bluebeam Revu 2019. Any Windows version is ok (Standard, CAD, or eXtreme). The Mac version will not work. If you have an older version of Bluebeam Revu (2018 or older), you can download a 2019 trial and install it ‘side by side’ your existing install. This will allow you to continue to use your older version without losing your license and you can use the new version to follow along in the training.

You can download a free 90-day trial here: https://www.curtek.ca/post/bluebeam-extends-trial-period-to-90-days