Bluebeam

Bluebeam is a standalone, universal PDF program, specifically designed for working with technical drawings to scale. View and compare pdf files, take notes or place photos on them, share them with your colleagues via the cloud, and track processing online.

In short, with Bluebeam you can:

  • Organise, split, clean up, repair or merge PDF files
  • Anonymising, digitally signing, and managing and applying stamps.
  • Make scanned PDFs searchable using OCR text recognition.
  • Collaborate online by invitation via check-in/check-out.
  • Add photos to the PDF, e.g. for inspection work.
  • Converting PDF tables to Excel.
  • Extensive configuration options, including for different user groups.

Bluebeam is available in four versions.

Basics

Basics is designed for anyone who wants to view, review, and annotate or highlight documents. This plan already offers a wide range of features, such as merging and splitting PDFs, making them searchable (via OCR text recognition), rotating pages, digitally signing documents, adding annotations and measurements, and more.

Core

Core is designed for anyone who uses Bluebeam professionally—sometimes all day long. Where Basics leaves off, Core picks up with powerful tools for calculations and job preparation. These tools let you instantly determine quantities and measure to scale within your technical PDF drawings, including real-time tracking of your bills of materials.

Complete

Complete is for you if you simply want to be able to do everything with your PDF documents. Notable features include powerful batch processing and scripting capabilities, as well as Quantity Link—the smart link that instantly updates your material or labor totals in Excel whenever you take a new measurement in Bluebeam.

Max

Max is the version powered by Claude AI, which allows you to “talk” via PDF with your colleague who is working on the BIM model in Revit, enabling you to merge drawings that have been split into separate parts back into a single whole. It also has a very smart copy function with an offset option.

Why buy Bluebeam from IDEOMA?

  • At IDEOMA, we know everything there is to know about Bluebeam—because it’s not just a side project for us. We live and breathe Bluebeam, and our clients notice that whenever they need us. And we’ve been doing this since 2005! That makes us the first Bluebeam reseller in the Netherlands—and the longest-standing Bluebeam partner.
  • We currently assist approximately 900 companies in the AEC sector with Bluebeam subscriptions throughout the Netherlands. This makes us by far the largest Bluebeam reseller in the Netherlands.
  • We are happy to provide you with personalized, independent advice; we have extensive experience in this area and know what works best for your business. We make sure you don’t pay too much and provide you with the right updates when needed.
  • We are a small company with a strong focus on selling Bluebeam. As a result, we are extremely knowledgeable about the best way to make use of your licenses. This prevents you, for example, from purchasing hundreds of new licenses when you could have saved a lot of money by simply updating your current licenses.

What else you need to know about Bluebeam.

  • In accordance with the ISO standard for Open PDF.
  • Compatible with Windows 11 and 10 (64-bit).
  • Temporary right of use, incl. Help desk, web support, updates and cloud storage.
  • Licence via a personal account in the cloud, so it is not tied to a specific computer.
  • Single Sign On, Microsoft Entra ID compatible (from 10 users).
  • Limited online functionality via Bluebeam Cloud through a web browser, Android, and iOS.
  • Universal printer driver for generating PDFs from any Windows programme.
  • A dedicated toolbar for MS Outlook, Word and Excel, amongst others.
  • Mainly receives PDF files created by others.
  • Want to determine quantities, so measure to scale in the PDFs

Bluebeam Cloud

With your Bluebeam license, you can also use the web application and mobile app on your tablet or iPad, allowing you to work on all your projects in the cloud (even on a Mac!). Would you like to learn more or get an explanation of how to use it, its benefits, and the installation steps? Then check out the page below.

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The fine print.

Click here for the terms of use or the Bluebeam EULA (Bluebeam’s General Terms and Conditions of Use) and for the Data Processing Agreement in accordance with the GDPR (Data Processing Addendum, GDPR-compliant).

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