17/6/26

Bluebeam Revu version 20 is already at least four years old, and anyone still using it doesn’t have to pay anything annually. That’s a nice bonus, but please note: Bluebeam has announced that it will be discontinuing the licence service as of 31 July 2026. This means that, from 1 August, you will no longer be able to transfer the licence from one computer to another.

Our advice: transfer your licence to your best computer.

Because if that one breaks down, your licence is gone. That’s not a disaster, as you can simply carry on with the lovely new version 21, with all the benefits that brings, but you’ll have to pay for it. So bear that in mind. For example, why not install version 21 on your computer now as a trial version?

And there’s one more thing.

If you’re still using version 20, even though it’s been upgraded (in which case you pay a lower annual fee that increases by 10 per cent each year), that cheaper version 21 must not be in use by anyone else, as it’s the upgrade to the version you’re currently using.

Our advice: make a list of who is using which version (20 or 21) and check that there aren’t more licences than you’re entitled to.

Please feel free to get in touch if you’d like us to help you work through this.

19/5/26 Take a closer look at what’s new in Bluebeam Revu as of today.

1. In addition to Basics, Core and Complete, there is now also Bluebeam Revu Max, so we now have four price points: €240, €300, €400 and €540 excluding VAT!

2. Bluebeam Max supports Claude AI for issuing commands. In Bluebeam’s short video, the user asks the system to compare two documents, highlight the differences in yellow and include the found text in the list.

3. Max can merge PDF drawings that have been split into sections. Click the start and end points of two matching split lines, and Bluebeam will give you a new PDF with those two sections merged together. You used to need an extremely expensive and complicated CAD programme to do that.

4. Max now offers ‘magic markups’. These are a sort of quick copy function that lets you convert something – the unique shape of which you’ve already specified – into something else, e.g. a different finish that uses the same floor area and for which you want a separate object, but corrected by a specific offset. Loads of people have been waiting for this!

Convinced? Just read point 5 for a moment.

5. Bluebeam Max and the plugin for Autodesk Revit (the BIM software your colleague uses?) now ensure that the annotations you make externally on a flat PDF drawing (exported from Revit) are not only imported immediately via the Studio server, but also appear exactly in the right place in your colleague’s 3D model, allowing them to respond to them straight away.

So: collaboration!!

Thank you in advance for your order.