Remotely working, efficient workflow for PDF markups & concurrent eng & drafting? 3

[Agent666]

In this day and age of working remotely, one thing we seem to be struggling with is a workflow that works efficiently with respect to dealing with drawing markups for drafting and concurrently drawing those while engineers continue marking up even more changes.... Rinse and repeat

On recent projects we seem to struggle with so many different pdf sets with different markups from multiple engineers. Maintaining a single pdf markup set seems impossible when everyone needs to either concurrently markup changes or drafters need to draw changes and mark off these changes as having been done....

In an ideal world you'd have some way of accessing the same single pdf version documents all at the same time to maintain one set with all the information in one place, markups from engineers, checking off as done by drafters.

I'm wondering if anyone has struggled with the same thing and found any solutions, workflow or otherwise that work efficiently without creating 101 versions of the same drawing pdfs with 1001 markups and spiralling into some paperless version of hell?

 

[Agent666]

If you have the extreme version of bluebeam, it has a batch hyperlink function that runs through and creates all the hyperlinks automatically.

Edit... Possibly CAD version does it as well.

Combine that set of drawings with a Bluebeam 'Set' and you have a fully linked set complete with revisioning capability. You can even transfer any markups to new drawing revisions when you load them in.