Use Smart Review to find discrepancies in drawing sets

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Smart Review performs advanced AI analysis that detects incomplete designs, scope gaps, and discrepancies within a drawing set. Document health checks provide actionable insights for accurate bidding and improved project efficiency.

The following checks help teams catch problems early and avoid financial risks, delays, and disputes:

• Document health checks

  • Sheet is blank

  • Sheet missing from set

  • Sheet missing from index

  • Sheet number not unique

  • Referenced sheet is missing

• Gridline coordination

  • Tag not consistent

    This check identifies inconsistent distances between structural and architectural gridlines across sheets in the drawing set.

• Schedule checks

  • Door tag not in schedule

  • Door tag not in plans

  • Door tag not unique in view

  • Door tag not unique in schedule

  • Missing door schedule

For additional information about Smart Review, see our frequently asked questions.

Before you begin

Make sure your files are optimized for this feature by following these best practices.

Start a Smart Review analysis

To start using Smart Review, follow these steps:

1. In Revu, select Batch > Smart Review.
2. Enter a name for your Smart Review analysis.
3. Under Files, select Add to upload your drawing set using one of the following options:
   • Files: Adds individual files from a network or local drive. Selecting this option causes the Open dialog to appear. Navigate to the appropriate location and select the desired files.
   • Open Files: Adds all files currently open in Revu.
   • Open Set: Adds all files contained in the current Set.
   • Folder: Adds all files in a selected folder on a network or local drive, but not files contained in any of its subfolders. Selecting this option causes the Select Folder dialog to appear. Navigate to the desired folder and select it.
   • Folder and Subfolders: Adds all files in a selected folder on a network or local drive as well as all files within any of its subfolders. Selecting this option causes the Select Folder dialog to appear. Navigate to the desired folder and select it.
4. Select Continue.

Your browser will open Bluebeam on the web, where your files are processed and your results appear. If you haven't signed in to Bluebeam on the web, you'll be prompted to sign in. The processing time depends on the file size and the number of sheets in your project.

View your Smart Review results

The Smart Results page in Bluebeam on the web lists all your Smart Overlay and Smart Review results. Select any Smart Review analysis you created to view analysis results.

Analysis Overview

By default, Smart Review opens the Analysis Overview dashboard, which provides an at-a-glance view of all issues found.

Discovered issues are displayed in the following categories:

Select Issue Mitigation to view the details of the displayed issues.

Filter

You can use the filter function to have the dashboard display specified issues by one or more of the following issue categories:

• Package Group

• Status

• Priority

• Package

• Type

• Label

  You provide the Label value from the Issue Mitigation page by using the Actions dropdown list.

Issue Mitigation

The Issue Mitigation page lets you view the details of the issues Smart Review discovered and see where the issues are located within the referenced sheets.

When you select an issue on the left pane to view issue details, the corresponding location in the PDF appears in the main pane of the page.

Select the checkbox for the issues and select the Actions dropdown list to make the changes to the following items:

• Change Status

• Change Priority

• Add and Remove Labels

  You provide the value for the Label category. For example, you can enter team members' names to assign the issue to them.

Sort and filter

Select Filter to sort and filter issues.

You can sort listed issues by the following categories:

• Priority

• Type

• Package

• Issue ID

• Sheet Number

• Status

You can also filter issues to narrow the list for relevance to specific disciplines or teams. Specifically, you can select one or more of the following issue categories:

• Package Group

• Status

• Priority

• Package

• Type

• Label

  You provide the Label value from the Issue Mitigation page by using the Actions dropdown list.

Export options

Smart Review lets you export discovered issues to a PDF and/or to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that you can open in Revu and/or Excel, respectively, from your Downloads folder. When you open the PDF in Revu, issues appear in the Markups List. Use the table below to map Smart Review categories to columns in the Markups List.

Smart Review Category	Revu Markups List Column
Description	Comments
Package	Package
Type	Type
Priority	Risk Level
Label	Label

You can export from both the Analysis Overview page and the Issue Mitigation page, but each page provides slightly different export options.

How-To

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