BlueBeam Revu 20 Comparison with PDF Editor - Fundamental comparison

Comparison between bluebeam software and PDFEditor software.

1. Outcomes: Pros and Cons Convenience of Using BlueBeam across Different Parties Differentiate Products Offered

2. Pros and Cons Pros: - Mark up Summary

3. Pros and Cons Pros: - Provide digital ID for signatures, invalidated when changes applies, sign in batches Available in Adobe

4. Pros: Pros and Cons - Create multipurpose action buttons Available in Adobe

5. Pros and Cons - Snap as CAD while measuring with great accuracy as CAD - Good tool in project management and design check, do quick measure Pros: Available in Adobe

6. Pros and Cons Pros: - Show AUTOCAD layers of the drawing produced, able to hide, lock, etc - Work sequence labelling Available in Adobe

7. Pros and Cons Pros: Create legend for mark ups and reviews, can separate or combine different reviewer's comments More advantageous to QS

8. Pros and Cons Pros: Shows edit histories and authors, comments etc , even those have been edited in other editors before Users will not be confused when drawings are being exchanged as the roles are clearly separated

9. Pros and Cons Pros: Measurement modes: length, perimeter, area, diameter, volume, angle, count with manual or auto search Multiple unit choices & precisions More advantageous to QS

10. Pros and Cons Pros: Dynamic fill measurement method for irregular shapes Good for Geo especially countour area/land area etc , however mostly using Civil3D for measurement

11. Pros and Cons Pros: Cut out feature provide convenience to measure with void More advantageous to QS

12. Pros and Cons Pros: - Space can separate out the room/snapshot PDF content

13. Pros and Cons Pros: - Xref feature - colour indicated changes/differences, black indicated similarities

14. Pros and Cons Pros: Create drawing sets with indication of revisions Have to manually add file into the drawing set to update revisions, Bluebeam will automatically detect matched drawings

15. Pros and Cons Pros: Formula expression input in customized columns More advantageous to QS

16. Pros and Cons Pros: 3D PDF viewer and editing Revu CAD provides creation of 3D PDF from other software

17. Pros and Cons Pros: - Offers OCR: to detect words in scanned documents eXtreme Feature

18. Pros and Cons Pros: eXtreme Feature Quality link: Matching with EXCEL spreadsheets More advantageous to QS

19. Pros and Cons Pros: - Batch link: Table of content eXtreme Feature

20. Pros and Cons Pros: - Batch slip - report of revisions eXtreme Feature

21. Pros and Cons Other Pros: - More user friendly edit and mark-up tools - Viewport allows multiple scales in a drawing - Flatten (PDF-Xchange Editor requires license key) - Supported by Apple products - Customization on the panel by opening new profile

22. Pros and Cons Cons: Need to be certain with scales adopted - calibrate before using measurements, especially in viewport No feature as UCS in CAD Volume taking for irregular depth (Geo) will still be requiring other modelling software Quality link must keep drawing pdf Drawing set in . bex format, opened only with BlueBeam

23. Convenience of Using BlueBeam across Different Parties Adobe Reader PDF-Xchange Editor Output PDFs are readable and editable by contractors

24. Differentiate Products Offered Revu 20 CAD is sufficient for CEE Create 2D PDF files directly from Autodesk Revit, SolidWorks, and Autodesk AutoCAD. It also allows users to create 3D PDF files directly from Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Navisworks® Manage, SketchUp® Pro, and Navisworks Simulate

25. Conclusion Most of the features in BlueBeam have already included under Adobe Readers and PDF-Xchange Editor. Several measurement and revision tracking features in BlueBeam can be replaced by CAD and proper documentation practices. Most of the measurement features in BlueBeam are more advantageous to QS as well. Only edit history with different roles, Xref feature, and OCR are useful to us. Plugins for 2D and 3D PDFs in BlueBeam Revu 20 CAD are seldom to be used.