Bluline. The drawings, measured and calculated.
Bluline opens big drawing sets in seconds, measures right on the sheets, and calculates from what you measured. Every measurement can fill a line in Tally.
Replaces: Bluebeam, and the calculator on your desk.
What Bluline does
Built for big sets: open, flip and zoom without waiting. Performance first.
Count, linear, area, perimeter, volume and more, each one totaling itself.
Measurements snap to the lines in the PDF. Right-click to add or remove a point.
Sheet numbers and titles, and the scope and quantities they show, read for you so you start from something.
Measure an area or a length, then open the right calculator with the number already in: flooring, tile, drywall, framing, paint, block.
Link a measurement to an estimate line and it fills it. Change the measurement, the estimate follows.
Architectural, electrical, concrete: show and hide what you’re measuring.
Standalone takeoffs with no project, moved into a project when the job is real.
Step by step
How a job goes through Bluline.
- 1Open the setFrom a project in Tally, or a takeoff on its own.
- 2Set the scaleOnce per sheet, from a known dimension.
- 3MeasureCount, run a line, outline an area. It snaps as you go.
- 4CalculateTurn the measurement into material: sheets, studs, gallons, boxes.
- 5Fill the estimateLink it to the line in Tally, then go back to the estimate.
Works with the other three
Bluline works on its own. With the others, nothing gets retyped.