Tool Chest overview

Edit a Bluebeam Revu markup tool set: rename tools, change their colors, widths and line styles, reorder them, and download the set again.

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

Tool Chest edits markup tool sets for Bluebeam Revu. You import a tool set you exported from Revu as a .btx file, change its tools, and download it again to import back into Revu.

Each scheme is one tool set: what Revu shows as one set in its Tool Chest. You can rename tools, change their colors, line widths and line styles, put them in a different order, duplicate them and delete them. Brand-new tools can't be made here yet.

The main screen #

From top to bottom, left to right:

The top bar. Undo and Redo, the project the tool set is in, and the save status.
The toolbar. Project ▾, the tool set's name (the name Revu shows) and how many tools you've edited. On the right: New, Import, Export ▾ and Share / Snapshots.
The tool list on the left, under Tools (Revu order). Each tool shows a small preview, its name, its kind, and "edited" once you've changed it.
The tool in the middle: a larger preview of the selected tool and its facts. As Revu stores it (read only) shows its raw properties.
The Inspector on the right, where you change the selected tool. See Edit tools.

The previews are drawn here from each tool's saved shape and properties. Revu's own drawing can differ a little.

Start a new tool set #

From inside the tool #

You start from a tool set you already have in Revu.

In Revu, export the tool set: Tool Chest › Manage Tool Sets › Export.
In Tool Chest, on the home page under Start fresh, click + Blank and pick the .btx file. Or click Import in the toolbar.

New in the toolbar clears the screen for an empty tool set. You still need to import a .btx to get tools.

Signed out, the home page offers Example tool set, a made-up set to click through the editor.

Save it to a project #

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

Open existing work #

From the tool's home page. Click Tools in the top bar to get there. Your tool sets lists the tool set you were last working on and the tool sets saved in your projects.
From Project ▾. The menu lists the tool sets in your projects. Click one to open it.
From a file. Click Import and pick a .btx or a .toolchest.json file. It replaces the tool set on this computer, so you confirm first when there's work on screen. See Import and export.

Who can see it #

A tool set 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 tool sets, but not change them.

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