Working with the Tool Chest

To save a markup from a PDF to the Tool Chest, CTRL-click it and go to Add to Tool Chest then select the desired tool set.

To use a tool to place a markup on a PDF, click the tool in the Tool Chest to select it, then click on the document to place the markup.

To copy a tool in one tool set to another tool set, click and drag the icon to the desired tool set.

To reorder the tools within a set, click and drag the icon to the desired location.

To delete a saved tool, use either of the following methods:

• Click a tool to select it, then click Delete Icon on the Tool Chest toolbar.
• CTRL-click a tool icon and select Delete.

The Recent Tools tool set records markups as they are added to the PDF.

To reuse a tool, click the icon to select the tool and click on the PDF to place the markup.

When more tools have been saved in Recent Tools than can be shown, an arrow appears to the right of the tools as shown in the image above. To see all the tools in Recent Tools, click the arrow.

The maximum number of tools that are kept in Recent Tools is configurable. To change the maximum number of tools kept, click the Properties gear to the right of Recent Tools, go to Maximum Recents and select the desired value.

The Recent Tools history is automatically cleared when Bluebeam Revu is closed. To clear your recent tools before then, click the Properties gear to the right of Recent Tools and select Clear Recents.

The My Tools tool set is designed to be a configurable collection of frequently used tools that provides easy access to them. As such, it has a few special properties:

• The My Tools tool set is a permanent part of Revu. It can be hidden, but it cannot be completely removed.
• Tools in the My Tools tool set can be toggled between Properties Mode and Drawing Mode (described below).

Most tools found in My Tools, Recent Tools, and custom tool sets can function in two different modes: Drawing Mode and Properties Mode (described below). Double-click a tool in any of these tool sets or click / Toggle Mode (which icon is shown depends on which mode is currently active) in the Tool Chest toolbar to switch between modes. The tool's icon changes to show which mode is currently being used.

Drawing Mode	Properties Mode

Properties mode adds a new markup with the same appearance properties of the saved markup. In this mode the Properties (as shown on the Properties tab) are retained but the exact dimensions, text, and so on are not. In the example above, using the tool in Properties mode would create a new yellow text box with black border and red text color, but no text would be inside the box yet, nor would the box have a fixed size.

Drawing mode adds a new markup that is an exact duplicate of the saved markup, as if you'd copied and pasted the original markup rather than made a new one of a similar type.

To change the mode of a tool in any of these tool sets, double-click on the tool's icon or select it and click / Toggle Mode (which icon is shown depends on which mode is currently active) in the Tool Chest toolbar. All information of the original markup is always retained when switching modes. Only the icon and the way that the markup is added to the file changes when the mode is changed. By default, most tools are saved in Properties Mode, though there are some markups that always remain in Drawing Mode.

If a tool has a defined Action, the action will only be added to markups created with it when in Drawing mode.

The Recent Tools tool set can be configured to default to either Properties Mode or Drawing Mode. To set the mode, click the Properties gear to the right of Recent Tools and either check or uncheck Properties Mode, as desired.