Bluebeam Cloud 4+

Latest update does not allow the opening of several drawings. Each time they are opened, it crashes on the app but online on the computer the dwg can be opened. There are several “punch” items that on the computer show up as shapes with not comments yet they cannot be deleted so not sure if that is causing the crash. Happens on several sheets in a session.

Bluebeam Cloud, used on a computer, is great. You can create projects, upload and share drawings, upload and share documents, create submittal logs, generate RFI’s, and create punch list items. However, when you upload items under the documents tab they aren’t accessible from the iOS app. It appears that the only functions available from the iOS app are the drawings, submittal log, and punch list. Adding a function to the iOS app to allow you to access the items uploaded under the documents tab would make this a much better app. I’m not sure why this is. You can use a browser on your iPad to log into the cloud and access the items under the documents tab but the markup features for the drawings, the RFI’s, and punch list all work better from the app. So your stuck using the browser half the time to access documents and using the app to generate markups on drawings, create RFI’s, and punch list items the other half of time. Hopefully they allow access to the documents through the app in a future roll out. It would change my rating for the app to 5 stars. Also, it would be nice to be able to attach/upload the actual submittal document to the corresponding entry in the submittal log so that it could be viewed from there. This app has potential but needs some work.

We have two primary general contractors who do work for us. One uses Bluebeam Studio and one uses a competitor.

Due to extreme lack of functionality, such as even having the ability to view drawings and information from Studio projects on a mobile device, it makes it extremely difficult to just quickly look something up from a phone. I have to VPN to my office, Remote Desktop to my desktop computer, log into Studio, and from there I can finally see things.

The competitor that the other contractor uses has an extremely straightforward mobile app where you can see the drawings and other project data and even make markups on your own revision of a document and share them! I don’t see how Bluebeam isn’t keeping up with the times. It’s pretty frustrating.