

I guess I see the point of BlueBeam if you are dealing with clients (homeowners maybe) who don't have a clue about AutoCAD, or any kind of CAD package, but in our case most people we interact with do. Allows markups that can be loaded with the drawing in AutoCAD, etc.

It's included with AutoCAD, or can be downloaded from the Autodesk site for free and bundled with DWG TruView. That's why I figured Design Review would be better for what we do. In fact 80 to 90 percent of our clients have in house engineering departments that have at least a couple AutoCAD seats. Any verdor we work with is CAD literate and 99% of them us AutoCAD or some other Autdesk product, including the vendor (architect) who recommended using BlueBeam. In simple terms we are a consultancy that works in industrial engineering designing distribution centers. Our consultants are using the 30 day trial version for now.

Bluebeam Revu competes with other construction estimating systems like Autodesk Construction Cloud, PlanSwift, and. on a scale between 1 to 10 Bluebeam Revu is rated 5.8. Yeah, I looked at it, which is why I suggested to our project manager to recommend Design Review instead. Revu Standard comes with features like 2D and 3D PDF Markup, Markups List, Tool Chest, Compare Documents, and Measurement Tools.
