There are no hotkeys that require three key modifiers. The Bluebeam team has pitied your mortal five-fingered hands. You can rotate the page or pages, insert a blank page, close tabs, flatten the document and much more. These commands generally affect the document itself, rather than the content within the document. Objects can be flipped vertically or horizontally, and aligned with other objects’ tops, bottoms, left edge, right edge or center in either direction. These hotkeys are used for aligning and flipping objects. For example, “shift + alt + l” measures length. The measurement hotkeys live in this domain, such as measuring length, area, volume, angles, etc. The toolbox tab is where I store my pre-drawn markups for detailing and plan work. As an engineer, I live in the properties and measurement tabs.įor big projects, the layers tabs help me navigate busy plans, and the bookmarks tab help me navigate long calculation packages. Then I keep the most pertinent ones open while I work and only open less commonly used tabs, like Studio in Revu, once in a while. I find it easier to right click one of the tabs and select which ones I want to see. These hotkeys are for opening the various tabs. Some non-standard hotkeys using the “ctrl” key are moving objects to the front or back or affecting the view of the page (e.g., “ctrl + h” splits the view horizontally between two documents). I can copy a shop drawing review stamp or page number and then paste it in exactly the same spot on the next page. So if you have something you want in the same place on every page, you can copy it and then press “shift + ctrl + v” to paste it in the same position.įor those like myself in structural engineering, I can copy a post on the third floor plan of a drawing set and then paste it in exactly the same place on the second floor plan to trace objects and loads down floor to floor. A very powerful function Revu offers is to hold “shift” while pasting something so that it will paste in exactly the same place on the page from where it was copied. These follow the standard Microsoft Windows hotkeys where “ctrl + c” is copy, “ctrl + v” is paste, “ctrl + x” is cut, etc. “Shift” also forces markup stretches using the handles to stay at 45 degree or 90 degree increments, depending on the markup-but that’s not the focus of this article. Holding “shift” while drawing an ellipse draws a special ellipse: a circle. Holding “shift” while drawing a line makes it snap to 45 degree increments. For example, “r” draws a rectangle, but “r + shift” draws a special kind of rectangle: a square. AutoCAD has “ortho” and “polar” modes that modify the way that you draw objects on the fly, and Revu uses “shift” to achieve similar functionality and more. The shift modifier is one you’ll use heavily for markups. These items are easily learned with some regular use. The pen tool uses “p,” so we have to use “shift + p” to draw a polygon and “shift + n” for polyline. So drawing a curve (or arc) can’t be “c,” because cloud is “c,” so “shift + c” draws a curve. Many of these hotkeys exist because we only have 26 letters to work with. These are somewhat loose associations, but will speed up the memorization and implementation of most hotkeys: Shift: In addition to the many one-key hotkeys, there are far more combinations once you consider modifier keys (i.e., ctrl, alt, shift). Revu will remember this default every time you use the program. If you later desire to change it, just redraw, reformat and click “Set as Default” again. Now, every time you draw that object, it will default to what you set up. If you have a format that you use frequently, you can draw the object, format it, then while it is selected, click “Set as Default” from the “Properties” tab. Pressing “l” for line will draw a red line segment with a line thickness of 1.ĭefault drawing hotkeys can be reformatted however you like each time by using the “Properties” tab. For example, pressing “r” for rectangle will draw a red rectangle with a line thickness of 1. Cloud is “c,” so callout moves to “q”-which is easier to understand with a Boston accent.Īll of these simple drawing hotkeys have default settings that come preloaded when you install Bluebeam Revu. Snapshot can’t be “s,” because stamp is “s”-therefore snapshot uses “g” (think of grab or get snapshot if it helps). But once we run out of letters in the alphabet, we have to get a little more creative. Most of these are intuitive, with “r” for rectangle, “l” for line, “e” for ellipse, etc. Starting with the basic hotkeys, we can type single-letter commands mainly for drawing tools. Bluebeam has a document that shows Revu’s hotkeys for various features, located here.
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