Linetype Studio overview

Make custom line styles for Bluebeam Revu, with dashes, dots, labels and symbols, and download them as .blx files Revu imports.

Alpha tool. It's early and still changing: expect things to break, and keep your own copy of anything you can't lose. What alpha means

Linetype Studio makes custom line styles for Bluebeam Revu: dashes, gaps, dots, text labels and small drawn symbols repeated along a line. Think property lines, gas lines, fences or insulation batting.

Each scheme is a library of sets. Each set downloads as one .blx file that Revu imports as a line style set.

The main screen #

From top to bottom, left to right:

The top bar. Undo and Redo, the project the library is in, and the save status.
The toolbar. Project ▾, the library's name, the Set menu to pick a set, and ⋯ for the set's actions. On the right: New, Import, Export ▾ and Share / Snapshots.
The rail on the left, with two tabs. Set lists the current set's line styles in Revu's order. Library is the read-only Standard library to copy from. See Your library and sets.
The line style in the middle: a live preview, the style's name and settings, and its pattern rows. See Edit a line style.
The Inspector on the right, for the row you selected.

Start a new library #

From inside the tool #

The tool opens on its home page. Under Start fresh, pick one:

+ Blank: an empty library. Build styles, or copy them from the Standard library.
Civil & site starter: property, easement and setback lines plus labeled utilities, as one set.
Standard CAD set: hidden, dashed, dotted, center, border, divide and phantom.
Utilities set: water, sewer, storm, gas, electric and telecom, as labeled dashes.

You can also click New in the toolbar to start an empty library. When there's work on screen, both ask first, because they replace the library on this computer. Download it first to keep a copy.

Save it to a project #

Linetype Studio isn't on a project page's + New menu yet. New work starts on this computer only. To file the library with a project, open Project ▾ and click Push to a project…. See Projects and schemes.

A library in a project can also be used by Tool Chest, to give a markup tool one of your line styles.

Open existing work #

From the tool's home page. Click Tools in the top bar to get there. Your line style libraries lists the library you were last working on and the libraries saved in your projects.
From Project ▾. The menu lists the line style libraries in your projects. Click one to open it.
From a file. Click Import and pick a .linetypes.json library file, .blx files, or a .zip of them. Their sets are added to the library on screen. See Import and export.

Who can see it #

A library in a project is shared with that project's people. Viewers can open it and look, but can't change it. See People and roles. To share it with someone outside the project, use Share / Snapshots. See View-only links.

An AI assistant connected through the AI connector can read your line style libraries, but not change them.

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