The Estimating Department here at Gaithersburg Architectural Millwork is enthusiastically using and promoting Bluebeam ( http://www.bluebeam.com/ ).
Everyone else is catching the bug, and it does seem really powerful. Here in Drafting, we are benefiting from the navigation aids that Estimating puts in the file that we work from.
They add hyperlinks to navigate within the Bid drawing set, out to their proposal, or out to a vendor web site.
They can also slip-sheet in Revisions, ASK's, RFI answers, etc. All this within ONE document is just great.
We in Drafting would like to be able to do the same with our pdf'ed Shop Drawings, so the PM's, Installers, etc can navigate our electronic files in a similar manner.
Click an elevation marker, and jump to that view...Click a section marker there, and jump to it...jump further to a detail, etc.
Call out a hardware or appliance item, and have it link to the web site.
The reason I am reaching out is that I would like to know if there are features within AutoCAD (2014+) that can take advantage of these Bluebeam hyperlinking features, and embed them directly during the drafting/plotting process.
Or does that need to be done after they are pdf'd, within Bluebeam?
When we do a project, there may be more than 5 people working on different items, each creating multiple pages and maybe several separate .dwg files.
We are using plain AutoCAD, and are not using Sheet Set Manager. (Does SSM work for output documents, or only within AutoCAD?)
Are there any CAD / Bluebeam experts out there?
Thanks in advance,
Frank