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18-Opal
September 16, 2011
Question

Drawing mark up methods?

  • September 16, 2011
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Woot! Happy Friday, everybody!!


How are you doing markups on drawings?


We have tried ProductView Lite for marking up drawings, hand markups scanned in, PDF's, TIFFs... We would really like to settle on a single file type and program.


If you markup PDF's what program do you use? Adobe Acrobat is too expensive. We have tried Foxit, and PDF Converter from Nuance, what else is good?

3 replies

September 25, 2011
Hi

We have used Bluebeam CAD edition for some years now.

The functionality is just excellent for both drawings (symbol template
with GT&D and
other) and manuals.

It has fair pricing 150USD and the license rules are fine - it is locked
per PC but when
you uninstall you release it again.

We currently holds 25 licenses.

I have no interest in Bluebeam

BR NielsC





Den 16-09-2011 18:37, Marc DeBower skrev:
>
> Woot! Happy Friday, everybody!!
>
> How are you doing markups on drawings?
>
> We have tried ProductView Lite for marking up drawings, hand markups
> scanned in, PDF's, TIFFs... We would really like to settle on a
> single file type and program.
>
> If you markup PDF's what program do you use? Adobe Acrobat is too
> expensive. We have tried Foxit, and PDF Converter from Nuance, what
> else is good?
>
>
mdebower18-OpalAuthor
18-Opal
September 26, 2011

Didn't receive too many replies on this topic, but here are the ones I did get. I think we will continue to mark up PDFs with Foxit Reader, good combination of speed, price, and editing features.



-marc


CAD / PLM Systems Manager


TriMark Corp.







We use Snagit, we print the drawing to a Snagit printer, mark up using the tools provided and then save as a PDF.






Please be sure to share your findings on this. I’m interested in this as well. I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro because I can but I have a feeling I might not be able to for much longer.



Thanks,


Phil






Marc,



We use AutoInk by Evermap, http://www.evermap.com/autoink.asp. It is relatively cheap and is very easy to use. You can also use a Bamboo pen tablet with it if you wanted.



Sincerely,



Brian Toussaint


CAD Administrator

mdebower18-OpalAuthor
18-Opal
September 26, 2011

Missed one. Sorry about that.





Hi

We have used Bluebeam CAD edition for some years now.

The functionality is just excellent for both drawings (symbol template with GT&D and
other) and manuals.

It has fair pricing 150USD and the license rules are fine - it is locked per PC but when
you uninstall you release it again.

We currently holds 25 licenses.

I have no interest in Bluebeam

BR NielsC