No drawing ships unchecked. No markup lost in email.
Pin comments straight onto the sheet, measure and take off areas that snap to the drawing's own vector linework, and pass every page through three quality-assurance (QA) gates before it releases to a login-free client link that can never drift onto the wrong revision.
Drop the markers a set actually needs.
Place a proper architectural elevation symbol — a circle with an open kite arrow — and spin it to face any wall with the spacebar. Drag a section cut and two linked markers snap to each end, pointing perpendicular; hit space to flip which side they read. Resize the whole stamp before you place it.
- Elevation marker rotates in 90° steps to face any wall
- Section cut drags out two linked, perpendicular markers
- Stamp size scales up to 5× before placing
| # | Drawing Number | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A-000 | Cover & Drawing Register | Complete |
| 2 | A-100 | Site & Location Plan | Drawing |
| 3 | A-201 | Level 2 — General Arrangement | Drawing |
| 4 | A-202 | Level 3 — General Arrangement | Review |
| 5 | A-310 | Core Sections A–A / B–B | Drawing |
| 6 | A-401 | Facade Detail — Type 1 | Drawing |
Drop a multi-page set. See it in a second.
The moment a set lands it's viewable — placeholder pages first, while background workers flatten the PDF, split every page, and AI reads each titleblock. Drawing numbers and sheet titles fill themselves in, and pages sort into two buckets automatically: reference drawings the client supplied, and the drawings your staff produce.
- Viewable in under a second — workers finish the heavy lifting behind the scenes
- AI reads each titleblock → drawing number and sheet title, auto-filled
- Search the whole set by number, title or detail, and jump straight there
Three gates. Nothing slips past unchecked.
Every sheet clears three checklist gates in order — Drafter, then Review, then Final — and a stage physically cannot advance while a single item is unticked. A reviewer works a sheet in review mode, ticking off QA items and leaving notes, while the drafters keep working the other sheets; those review notes stay private until the sheet is handed back. The moment it is, the held notes publish and the drafters are alerted on their dashboard and by an @-mention in your project's Slack channel. Clients are hard-blocked from the checklists entirely.
- Drafter → Review → Final — each gate its own per-page checklist, none advancing until every item is ticked
- A reviewer works in review mode while drafters keep working the other sheets
- Hand a sheet back and the held QA notes hit the drafter’s dashboard and your project Slack
- Submit for review and the assigned reviewer is notified automatically — dashboard, email and Slack
- Title block current
- Grid & levels correct
- Dimensions & annotations placed
- Code compliance checked
- Coordination clash-free
- Legible at issue scale
- Principal sign-off
- Issue register clear
- Ready to issue
Every comment knows where it lives.
Comments are pinned to the markup they're about. Click one and the sheet pans and zooms straight to it — the row flashes blue, the linked markup flares green — so nobody hunts a 14-page set for the thing a note refers to.
A real conversation on every markup.
Each comment opens a thread that nests as deep as it needs to. Client replies tint orange and glow amber until you've read them; staff replies stay quiet grey. Anyone can paste or attach a photo — a site condition, an as-built — and it rides along in the thread as a thumbnail you click to enlarge.
- Threads nest to any depth under the original comment
- Client replies tint orange with an amber “new” ring; staff stay grey
- Paste or attach images — they thumbnail inline in the thread
The tiling setout here doesn't match the RCP — can you confirm the grid origin before we proceed?
Good catch — origin is the SE column centreline. Can you send a photo of the as-built?
Here's the site photo — the tiler has already started off the doorway edge.
Perfect — I'll set the datum off the photographed edge and re-issue the setout.
Comments (3)
OpenLobby glazing — can we go frameless along this run?
Rev A.03 issued for your review — markups 3–5 cover the entry.
Level 2 layout looks good to me.
A sign-off link that can't drift onto the wrong revision.
Clients get a login-free review link pinned to one revision, so they can never land on half-finished internal work. Their comments tint orange, staff replies blue, and each thread opens and closes on its own. One green Reply back publishes everything and drops a note into your project's Slack.
- The client link is pinned to a revision — it can never drift onto internal WIP
- Client threads tint orange, staff threads blue; each opens and closes independently
- Reply-back publishes held drafts together and posts to Slack
See exactly what changed between two revisions.
Overlay any two revisions of a sheet and the changes light up on their own — new work in red, removed work in blue. TrackerPlus pairs the matching sheets across both revisions for you and flags which ones actually changed, so nothing slips through between issues.
- New content in red, removed content in blue — at a glance
- Sheets auto-paired across revisions by number and title
- Changed sheets flagged automatically — no page-by-page hunting
Issues 4
| # | Issue | Status | Author | Assignee | Replies | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can the reception desk shift 300 east? | Open | Riverside Devs (client) | A. Nguyen | 2 | 2h ago |
| 2 | When can we expect the tender set? | Open | Northgate Devs (client) | You | 4 | 5h ago |
| 3 | DraftConfirm balustrade height to AS1170 | Open | A. Nguyen | Client — Riverside Devs | — | yesterday |
| 4 | Door schedule updated for level 2 | Done | M. Osei | Unassigned | 1 | yesterday |
Track every client question — not just drawing markups.
Not every question lives on a drawing. Open an Issue Tracker and log them in a dense table — each with a status, an assignee and a threaded back-and-forth. Draft them privately, then hit “Send to client” to publish and notify in one go; clients raise and answer their own from the portal.
- One running table: status, author, assignee, replies, updated
- Draft privately, then “Send to client” — published and notified once
- Clients raise and answer issues from their own portal
The markup you know — inside the practice you run.
Bluebeam is a brilliant standalone markup tool. Where TrackerPlus pulls ahead is the team workflow around the markup: a reviewer works a set in review mode while drafters keep going, held QA notes publish on hand-back and alert the team on their dashboard and in Slack, and the whole thing is wired into your schedule, timesheets and invoices.
| Drawing review & markup | Bluebeam® Revu | TrackerPlus |
|---|---|---|
| On-drawing markup, measurement & snap-to-linework tools | ||
| Runs in any browser — nothing to install | Desktop app | |
| Clients review & comment with no login or software | Login-free link | |
| Live, multi-user markup on the same sheet | Studio Sessions | |
| Auto-compares revisions & flags which sheets changed | Manual overlay | Added red · removed blue |
| AI reads titleblocks → drawing numbers, titles & search | ||
| Built-in QA sign-off workflow (Drafter → Review → Final) | ||
| Reviewer works in “review mode” while drafters keep working | ||
| QA hand-backs alert the whole team automatically | Dashboard + Slack | |
| Client Q&A issue tracker, threaded | ||
| Connected to scheduling, timesheets & invoicing |
Bluebeam® Revu is a registered trademark of Bluebeam, Inc. — a best-in-class standalone PDF markup and takeoff tool. TrackerPlus builds live markup into your whole practice. Comparison reflects standard plan features and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bluebeam.
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