Adobe Acrobat vs. AutoCAD vs. Bluebeam

AutoCAD

Bluebeam

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Acrobat	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).	$29.99 per month per seat
AutoCAD	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	AutoCAD is a CAD product from Autodesk. It allows designers to work in 2D and 3D, and is available on Windows and Mac, but with extensive online collaboration tools.	$245 per month
Bluebeam	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Bluebeam Revu is a PDF management, control, and editing tool. It enables collaboration and markup within shared documents across projects’ life cycles and has takeoff and bid creation capabilities.	$240 per year per user

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

AutoCAD

Bluebeam

Editions & Modules

Acrobat Pro for Individuals: $19.99
per month
Acrobat Pro for Teams: $23.99
per month per user
Acrobat Studio for Individuals: $24.99
per month

Monthly Subscription: $245
per month per user
Yearly Subscription: $1975
per year per user
3-Year Subscription: $5925
3 years per user

Revu Standard: $349
per seat
Revu CAD: $449
per seat
Revu eXtreme: $599
per seat

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	AutoCAD	Bluebeam
Free Trial
Yes	Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pricing Info

Community Pulse
	Adobe Acrobat	AutoCAD	Bluebeam
Considered Multiple Products	Adobe Acrobat Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat I use adobe for quick efforts with large PDFs, like combining them with other PDFs or optimizing the file size. I use Bluebeam when I need to spend time working on the PDF and adding comments, color, and other medications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat We actually use adobe alongside Bluebeam to supliment some of the layer features when looking at plans and layouts. We still use Adobe for ease of use for documents or contracts. Incentivized Helpful? LF Laci Fitch Marketing Coordinator Chose Adobe Acrobat I prefer Adobe Acrobat to Bluebeam because it has the functionality that I need and because I use so many other Adobe products, it's an easy transition for me. Bluebeam is much more cumbersome and really just has more construction-focused functionality that I don't need on a … Incentivized Helpful? Avery Chipman Interior Designer Chose Adobe Acrobat The most important factor in choosing and using Adobe Acrobat is that it is an Adobe Suite software and nicely integrates with the other Adobe software we use to create print projects, such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. It is also convenient that Acrobat has the free … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat I find Adobe Acrobat easier to use and I don't need to be as technical as Bluebeam is usually used for Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Adobe Acrobat I found Adobe Acrobat far more intuitive. Helpful? Marcos Sola Design Engineer Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat works hand-in-hand with Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, and InDesign. Anything that is designed within those platforms can easily be exported as a PDF in order to be viewed in Acrobat DC. Where Adobe Acrobat excels is that we can send our final PDFs to our customers … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Acrobat Initially we went with standardization, we were users of the Creative Cloud Suite and thought across the board would be the way to go. Pricing was a big factor, and it was good at that time. We have started to go a different direction as the price has increased and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is the standard and the easy to use package prevailed over the competition. There are free alternatives out there but they do not offer an as intuitive or use-friendly package. Incentivized Helpful? Che Odom Marketing and Business Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC is easier to use and more intuitive than BlueBeam, we prefer Bluebeam for operations teams because it offers to scale and measuring for construction documents that our operations teams need, however, would prefer the Adobe suite for ease of use, and familiarity … Incentivized Helpful? Erin Drake Director of Marketing Chose Adobe Acrobat I don't use Bluebeam, but many of my coworkers do - particularly when it comes to construction plans and surveys. They tend not to use Adobe Acrobat DC as much, sticking to Bluebeam for everything, but because they have the software they do not have difficulty using Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat DC stacks up well against Foxit PDF Editor. But Foxit doesn't require an annual/monthly subscription. Can't really compare Bluebeam with Adobe, as Bluebeam is such a robust a powerful PDF program that is well geared towards the construction industry. Incentivized Helpful? Adrienne Gould-Choquette, P.E. Principal Engineer Chose Adobe Acrobat Microsoft Word used to be my workhorse; however, now I only use it on very rare occasions. I am not a writer and if I were this review would read differently. I create technical documents using an array of software and the final submission of all documents is always a pdf … Incentivized Helpful? PM Pamela Mitchell Design & Construction Project Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat When it came down to the final decision on choosing to go with Adobe Acrobat DC, it came down to the one that most of our team was comfortable working with and what they found easiest to use. It seemed that more people liked how you navigate through and use Adobe Acrobat DC … Incentivized Helpful? AJ Amit Javiya Process Engineer Chose Adobe Acrobat There are many pdf viewers and editors in the market but none of them can compete with Adobe Acrobat DC. This software also gives good services but many of them are not for only pdf like Acrobat. In many applications, you can view or edit but can not sign and secure documents. Incentivized Helpful? Heather MacLean Project Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Our field team uses Bluebeam. Incentivized Helpful? Özgür Erkek, MSc, PRINCE2® Exhaust Systems Supervisor Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is an integrated tool, which captures open/view, edit and sign/stamp features all together in a single software without adds or advertisements. When cloud feature is added then it becomes an essential tool for the office work. Mobile version is a good plus to … Incentivized Helpful? JH JOAN HOPE Business Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat For my purposes, office administration versus engineering/project management, Adobe is more versatile. It's easier to combine documents, edit, bookmark, sign, fill out forms, design forms, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Graham Green Commercial Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Having previously used Nitro Pro, we were pleased to gain the additional functionality that Adobe provides. Sending and tracking documents is much easier than on Nitro. The support function is slicker and quicker and there is a wider community of users to draw upon. I didn't … Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Wyszynski Healthcare Associate Chose Adobe Acrobat I think Acrobat DC really makes its case against Revu because of the ability to edit text much easier and add signing areas where in Bluebeam you need to be very exact and do not have the ability to make changes of document that may not lend itself for editing. Incentivized Helpful?	AutoCAD Verified User Employee Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is better for drafting construction documents than Rhino. The ability to draft blue print drawings and update them to the specificity we need is a big leg up. Rhino allows me to see the model in 3d instantly where will AutoCAD I need to use a program such as SketchUp to … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AutoCAD All of the alternatives above work well if you are starting from scratch and are in the market for new software. DraftSight is no longer free. If you have any legacy AutoCAD drawings you are going to encounter problems as we did. Sometimes old files won't open or save … Incentivized Helpful? Gautham Prasad Senior VDC Manager Chose AutoCAD I use Revit far more than I use AutoCAD. AutoCAD is great for simple linework, but even then I will often create the lines in Revit and then export to AutoCAD for final touches and printing. AutoCAD is a bit easier for large-format prints, which is why I almost always end up … Incentivized Helpful? David Yerks Estimator/Project Manager Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is much more stable and comes with 3D capability as standard. DraftSight is less stable and requires the pro version for 3D capability, but it is also 1/4 the price of AutoCAD. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is still the top choice although the software subscription is more on the costly side. Time saved on every mouse stroke justifies the value of AutoCAD. After using AutoCAD for a while, other competitors' less expensive copycat versions feel very inefficient and not … Incentivized Helpful? Oliver Philippe Goulart Young Facility Designer II Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is superior to the other two software in means of multi format compatibility and ability to save to previous versions. Incentivized Helpful? Adrienne Gould-Choquette, P.E. Principal Engineer Chose AutoCAD For the HVAC engineering and design field, companies like RHVAC and Wrightsoft make competing products. I have not used these packages, but I have seen the designs they produce. These designs are not up to the quality, customizability, or standard that I am able to put out … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is used more widely which makes collaboration easier. Learning curve for ARCHICAD didn't outweigh cost differences. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose AutoCAD Our design engineers have their choice of software to work with and never once was AutoCAD not part of this. Incentivized Helpful? BP Brij Purohit Technology Design Engineer Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is easy to operate for small to medium sized projects whereas Revit requires more knowledge to operate and design floor plans. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is more for architecture/building designs which is what or Industrial Hygiene department uses and since they are the larger department, that is what the company decided will be used company wide. ArcGIS has more environmental features and the ability to do statistical … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is the old industry standard that likely will disappear from use someday but somehow manages relevancy in certain isolated use-cases. It is incredibly likely that Revit (BIM) will supplant it entirely in the long run. Incentivized Helpful? Jake Karl Mechanical Engineer Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is one of the original go-to programs for construction documents. It is great when you're using it in the right application. Our company does a lot of smaller tenant renovations in our city so using AutoCAD allows us to produce a high volume of quality drawings to be … Incentivized Helpful? Neha Chopra Signalling Design Assistant Chose AutoCAD I like AutoCAD for design purpose so, I would highly recommend this software to anyone in the designing field, especially signal designing, architectural, engineering or surveying field. AutoCAD is user-friendly software. AutoCAD allows you to be very detailed with your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AutoCAD We use Inventor, but AutoCAD is more friendly in the 2D world for quick technical drawings, or for adding electrical notes. Incentivized Helpful? Samantha Dross Administrative Assistant Chose AutoCAD Revit is the 3D modeling portion of AutoCAD. AutoCAD is great for 2D drafting and designing. AutoCAD is great for 2D because it analyzes each floor thoroughly.I believe 2D gives more of a detailed idea of what the design of the building and each floor is supposed to look like. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Galati Hawaii / Guam Regional Manager Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD is the best of the bunch, but the older versions are easier to learn. We choose to stay with AutoCAD because the learning curve to switch to another software product would not be. Incentivized Helpful? Gil Lopez CTS ING Integrated Technology Architect Chose AutoCAD AutoCAD works well with Revit and SketchUp. We have attempted to migrate to Revit-only, however, AutoCAD offers certain features that make it more efficient for production. Many experienced users have invested significant amounts of time learning and keeping with AutoCAD, also … Incentivized Helpful?	Bluebeam Tim Corbett General Manager Chose Bluebeam I have nothing negative to say about Adobe Acrobat, either. I think the feature set of both it and Bluebeam Revu stack up very well with each other. I would suggest running a demo of both, and pick the one that is easiest for you. Our employee's with Acrobat experience took a … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Carter General Superintendent Chose Bluebeam I personally like the tools that Bluebeam offers over Acrobat and feel that, for my company, Bluebeam was much better suited. Scaling tools, markups, as-builts, RFI’s, submittal approval, and detail creation all really show its strength. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Bluebeam There is no comparison. The editing tools, batch tools drafting tools, personal environment profiles, settings, printing, calibrating, direct connecting apps that links Bluebeam to AutoCAD and Revit. This is an extremely powerful program that is amazingly helpful and I probably … Incentivized Helpful? BP Brij Purohit Technology Design Engineer Chose Bluebeam PDF file sharing is really easy and simple, so users can markup and others can view them in real-time. Also, editing PDF files to crop, batch, remove, or replace pages is really efficient compared to Adobe Acrobat DC. Plus, the licensing fee is pretty small compared to Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Bluebeam It is better than Acrobat in my opinion. More features and more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu has essentially replaced Adobe Acrobat as our default PDF viewer and editor, because its robust suite of architecturally-focused tools allow for better review of documents and creation of simple graphic diagrams. The scale and measurement tools are especially … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Bluebeam I believe Bluebeam is actually easier to learn and use versus Adobe Acrobat. With it’s how to videos and great customer support, there’s basically not a problem that cannot be figured out. As far as PDF modification, I believe Bluebeam’s tools and screen configuration is very … Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Lyn Paddock Finance Coordinator Chose Bluebeam It is just more advanced in terms of functionality. Bluebeam has far more features for collaboration, document sharing and marking up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is targeted towards construction professional and offers features and built-in markups that I use everyday. Acrobat is a generic program that requires more training and set-up for use specific to construction and design. Bluebeam was more cost-effective than Acrobat, … Incentivized Helpful? Babar Tahirkheli Senior Proposal Manager Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam has more enhanced features than Adobe. Incentivized Helpful? KP Kevin Patrick Owner Chose Bluebeam Years ago I used Adobe which was not well suited for CAD drawings. I soon found Bluebeam which at the time was a wonderful game changer. Sadly, my recent experience has caused me to begin searching elsewhere for new software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is a more advanced PDF editor and better suited for the engineering and construction industry. It has far more tools and better capabilities for collaborative viewing, marking up, and sharing of documents. Incentivized Helpful? Heather MacLean Administrative Assistant Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam definitely blows Adobe out of the water in the basic to the basic comparison. You will have to do more research on how exactly to use all the tools if you have never used the program before such as myself. Incentivized Helpful? Oliver Philippe Goulart Young Facility Designer I Chose Bluebeam Much more complete than the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Bluebeam Much better. The features are greater, the layout is better and you can just do so much more. The features alone and what you can do with it makes it worth it. Also, it allows for you to edit and create in a much more user friendly way. All of our engineers love using it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu is a no-brainer in the AEC space. Stop wasting money on owning adobe and Revu. Revu can replace all of your Adobe usage. With a good change management process, Revu can meet the needs of your entire organization. The Bluebeam team will be with you every step … Incentivized Helpful? Bob Kramer, RCDD, LEED AP Principal Chose Bluebeam Revu was much easier to use, more cost-effective, and is more generally used in the construction and design industry than Adobe. We found Adobe to be more of a resource hog, as well as being bloated with offers for other Adobe applications, which many times would slow down a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam is a good in-between of Adobe and Photoshop. If you're not looking to do photo editing, but need more capabilities than just line work, Bluebeam is perfect. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Smith Safety and Project Manager Chose Bluebeam We've used these other products in conjunction with Bluebeam mainly because Bluebeam lacks RFI/COR/PO/Mark-up/revision tracking, and doesn't handle punch lists or tasks. Incentivized Helpful? Jill Liegghio Accounts Payable Manager Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu has a much more sophisticated interface that allows you to mark up documents in many different ways. It can store tools for standard markup use. It provides digital signatures which can be very useful for many document types. By creating a Revu studio, multiple … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor Chose Bluebeam Adobe is good for viewing PDFs, but as far as how PDFs are utilized in construction, Bluebeam is hands-down the best program I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Bluebeam The newer Adobe interfaces are poor. Adobe does not do as well with drawing markup or takeoff tools. Adobe does seem to render some drawing files more quickly though. Adobe text document markup feels a bit more polished. Bluebeam was selected for better tools specific to … Incentivized Helpful? M.A ADIL ANSARI Quantity Surveyor Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu is easy to use and a lot cheaper compared to other products available in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Bluebeam Revu is far better than Foxit and Adobe Pro. We use it every day and it far exceeds the capabilities of those programs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Bluebeam Bluebeam Revu is a better product than Adobe because it focuses more on achieving construction related goals. We selected Bluebeam Revu because others in our office had used it and recommended that we integrate it throughout the company. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Adobe Acrobat

AutoCAD

Bluebeam

Computer-Aided Design Software

Comparison of Computer-Aided Design Software features of Product A and Product B
	Adobe Acrobat - Ratings	AutoCAD 6.5 6 Ratings 13% below category average	Bluebeam - Ratings
3D Modeling	00 Ratings	5.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
2D Drafting	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rendering and Visualization	00 Ratings	5.56 Ratings	00 Ratings
Parametric Design	00 Ratings	7.16 Ratings	00 Ratings
Collaboration and Sharing	00 Ratings	7.66 Ratings	00 Ratings
Compatibility with other software and formats	00 Ratings	8.16 Ratings	00 Ratings
Assembly Design	00 Ratings	6.06 Ratings	00 Ratings
Simulation and Analysis	00 Ratings	4.25 Ratings	00 Ratings
Documentation and Annotation	00 Ratings	7.56 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customization and Extensions	00 Ratings	5.46 Ratings	00 Ratings

Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Adobe Acrobat - Ratings	AutoCAD - Ratings	Bluebeam 10.0 1 Ratings 26% above category average
Dashboards	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Standard reports	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Custom reports	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Data exportability	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Construction Project & Field Management

Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of Product A and Product B
	Adobe Acrobat - Ratings	AutoCAD - Ratings	Bluebeam 9.6 54 Ratings 26% above category average
Plan distribution & viewing	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.452 Ratings
Plan markups & sharing	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.654 Ratings
Issue tracking & punchlists	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.333 Ratings
Photo documentation	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.436 Ratings
Jobsite reports	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.531 Ratings
Document sharing	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.747 Ratings
RFI tools	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.535 Ratings
Collaboration & approvals	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.542 Ratings
As-built drawings	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.545 Ratings
Mobile app	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.027 Ratings
Submittal design and management	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.521 Ratings
Checklists	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.83 Ratings
Change orders	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.73 Ratings

Estimating

Comparison of Estimating features of Product A and Product B
	Adobe Acrobat - Ratings	AutoCAD - Ratings	Bluebeam 9.5 29 Ratings 23% above category average
Takeoff tools	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.228 Ratings
Job costing	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	8.45 Ratings
Cost databases	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Cost calculator	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Bid creation	00 Ratings	00 Ratings	9.88 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	AutoCAD	Bluebeam
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (812 ratings)	7.6 (87 ratings)	9.7 (66 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (45 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)	1.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (254 ratings)	8.4 (8 ratings)	9.5 (4 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	5.8 (10 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (63 ratings)	6.9 (13 ratings)	1.0 (11 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.8 (15 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	4.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	1.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Acrobat	AutoCAD	Bluebeam
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe When preparing artwork for print production from an application like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign, the best way to preview and preflight the work is to export to PDF and use Adobe Acrobat's output preview to check process colors, spot colors, dielines, and any special requirements, like foil stamping or varnish. Adobe Acrobat is also where you make any needed final adjustments to ensure correct reproduction on press. Documents intended for screen viewing must be exported to PDF and edited in Adobe Acrobat so as to add and edit needed accessibility features critical for legislative compliance. Incentivized Alan Gilbertson Creative Director Read full review	Autodesk AutoCAD is the Industry best and standardized software used industry wide. This comes with support of some free to use plugins which can be downloaded form AutoDesk Store. AutoDesk has already nurtured a strong community of Developers, Students and Architects this helps any one new with Forms which help them get integrated with the commiunity very quickly. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. The program is great for editing construction drawings, stamping/approving official documents and overlaying revised documents to see design changes. You can use it as an estimating takeoff tool, estimating database, document control, cloud document storage, the list goes on! Bluebeam poses many applications for the user to utilize for the desired needs. There may be some other software that has one specific function that can perform the specific task better, but Bluebeam is a holistic program with many tools for use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Adobe Ability to manipulate a PDF in various ways. Print production is incredibly helpful for checking off and making sure PDFs are ready for print. Commenting in Adobe Acrobat is awesome! So nice to be able to hand off a PDF and get it back with edits that are easy to navigate and resolve! Incentivized PT phillip Tusler Graphic Designer Read full review	Autodesk The tools are easy to use and the learning curve is fairly minimal to be able to create blueprints. The 3D application is very fun to use and it is nice to be able to see your product instead of having to imagine what it will look like. The speed and accuracy in which students can create plans is a huge bonus. Students can plan their industrial art projects out and use their own set of plans to build them. Incentivized MP Mark Perry Teacher Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. Once you set Bluebeam Revu as your default PDF handler, it launches immediately when clicking a PDF to open. The speed with which it opens documents is impressive. Creating PDF's out of other documents, such as Word, Excel, JPG's, etc. is simple. Digitally signing documents is a simple, secure process. You can keep your signature password-protected, yet still access it quickly. The Bluebeam Revu mobile application ( I use the iOS version on an iPad Pro), is awesome. Not only does it handle PDF's like you would expect it to, it allows for effortless digital signing of documents on the fly. Nice to be able to quickly sign a document and email right back out from the tablet no matter where I am. Incentivized Tim Corbett General Manager Read full review
Cons	Adobe More printing settings, like being able to adjust the margins and place the print area on the page when the file size is larger than the page, and I only want to print one section. Illustrator has this feature. Often, we print from Illustrator instead, because of this limitation. Incentivized LK Lucia Kwon Creative Design Manager Read full review	Autodesk User Interface Customisation: AutoCAD's user interface could benefit from more robust customisation options. Allowing users to rearrange toolbars, menus, and panels according to their specific workflows and preferences would enhance productivity. Enhanced 3D Modeling Tools: While AutoCAD is capable of 3D modeling, it's not as intuitive or feature-rich as dedicated 3D modeling software. Streamlining the process and adding more advanced modeling tools would be a welcome improvement. Enhanced Collaboration and Version Control: AutoCAD could improve its collaboration tools, such as real-time editing and version tracking, to facilitate smoother teamwork, especially in multi-disciplinary projects. Intelligent Object Libraries: AutoCAD could benefit from an expanded and more intelligent library of standard objects and components. This would save time for designers who often have to create custom components from scratch. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. If you have several tabs open and you try to drag one out for a side by side view then you do not have all the modification options and you have to combine them back together. There is a lag time when hitting the print option. There is also a lag time when opening files, sometimes I think the window is frozen. I wish the basic version also had basic file editing, as in editing a document as Adobe does. Incentivized Heather MacLean Administrative Assistant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Adobe Adobe Acrobat works seamlessly with the other Adobe products we use that are industry-standard. We will certainly continue to use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, meaning it will always be convenient to work seamlessly with Adobe Acrobat for our organization. We are happy with the performance of Acrobat and it's meets our expectations. Incentivized Avery Chipman Interior Designer Read full review	Autodesk Because rarely we [would] rather wait for a whole year to update, sometimes the new updates don't bring many new features and we are still ok with the current version. Also the change of interface is always something that takes time for every partner in the company to get comfortable with. So those are the main reasons we may want to keep the same version. Incentivized Nelson David Sanchez Villasmil Gerente de proyectos de Arquitectura ( Contrato fijo ) Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. Bluebeam is a powerful PDF viewer and mark-up tool. We are more familiar with it than Adobe Acrobat Pro or other viewers, and it has more features geared towards construction document managers than Acrobat Pro does. Incentivized Michael Savala Assistant Account Manager Read full review
Usability	Adobe It’s a very easy app to learn and software is essential. I feel like the app could load a bit faster but overall, is one of my go to apps. Makes reading and editing pdfs easy and I enjoy the usability of the app. It is definitely something I make sure to have downloaded on any computer I’m working from Incentivized HH Heidy Hernandez Graphic Designer Read full review	Autodesk It is very usable once you understand the program. I believe there is room for improvement in the 2D to 3D modeling capability. We have to use other apps to 3D model and that can be time consuming and sometimes AutoCAD doesn't transfer work that well between apps. They can improve there. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. I'm constantly finding that Bluebeam Revu does more than I knew it could. And when I find something that it can't do, I've found that Bluebeam truly listens to its user base and will work to incorporate any good suggestion when feasible. Incentivized Ernest King Construction Operations & Process Manager Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Adobe We have not had availability issues with Adobe Acrobat, or at least none that I am personally aware of. Some may encounter crashes of the software during outages of electricity in their city or neighborhood, which no one can plan for, but with generators in our organization, we have been lucky not to have outages Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review	Autodesk No answers on this topic	Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic
Performance	Adobe One of the best features of Adobe Acrobat is its speed and stability. When dealing with massive multi-page files, having to reload a crashed program over and over again would slow down progress unnecessarily. And expanding on that, having the table of contents generated allows me to skip to different pages with ease, a necessary feature with exceptionally long files. word searches are even more helpful with text recognition. Incentivized Daniel Epstein Senior Clinical Quality Analyst Read full review	Autodesk No answers on this topic	Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Adobe For a while, Acrobat DC crashed pretty frequently. I contacted Adobe Acrobat support about the problem. At first support was unable to provide a solution. After about a month Adobe's software engineers provided a fix. I just wish it had taken less than a month to solve the problem. Incentivized BP Bradley Pearce Managing Member Read full review	Autodesk AutoCAD has the issue of crashing or slowing down the design procedure once a heavy design that includes several disciplines or multiple families/blocks is involved. Customer services gets the feedback from the crash reports but this issue seems like it has never been addressed in the software updates past several years. Incentivized BP Brij Purohit Technology Design Engineer Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. Its hard for me to give a rating on this one as we rarely have to use the support feature for Bluebeam. However, when we have used it, they have been ultra supportive in helping us get exactly what we needed. I know another engineer was trying to figure out a feature and the rep gave a detailed tutorial on how to complete the task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	Adobe Answered basic questions. Incentivized Michael Craven President Read full review	Autodesk No answers on this topic	Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Adobe I was not involved with the implementation process, so I cannot answer this question. However, when it was installed on my computer system, they did so virtually. I just sat there while they took control of my computer over the network and watch them install it, lickety split Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review	Autodesk the implementation was realy easy , to set up our workstation we pay for the licenses we are about to use , there was a little bit of delay to get the payment processed to receive the serial but after that the install runs without any problem , so you can fell secure there will be not issue with the implementation. Incentivized Nelson David Sanchez Villasmil Gerente de proyectos de Arquitectura ( Contrato fijo ) Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Adobe In my opinion, both complement each other. Microsoft clearly has with Copilot the AI Edge. However, the visual dynamics of Adobe Creative are Outstanding and provide a balanced approach to creativity, utilizing both Excellent, user-friendly Tools. Incentivized JR Joe Reddix President and CEO Read full review	Autodesk I use Revit far more than I use AutoCAD. AutoCAD is great for simple linework, but even then I will often create the lines in Revit and then export to AutoCAD for final touches and printing. AutoCAD is a bit easier for large-format prints, which is why I almost always end up using it after starting in Revit. Incentivized Gautham Prasad Senior VDC Manager Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. We feel there is not another program out there that would compare to Bluebeam at this current time. Some of the other programs out there do not include studio or the overlaying process which is one of our main uses. The ease of hyperlinking makes this product stand out the most. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	Adobe I am not responsible for sales or purchasing Incentivized Sean Moore Marketing Specialist Read full review	Autodesk No answers on this topic	Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic
Scalability	Adobe I find that many users aren't aware of many features of the software they use, nor may they be comfortable with learning multiple-step processes. For the simplest of PDF purposes (scanning, downloading, exporting), it gets a thumbs-up. For anything involving electronic signatures, meh--causes eyes to glaze over, or forgetting what all is involved. Incentivized Jamie Caroland Independent Consultant Read full review	Autodesk No answers on this topic	Bluebeam, Inc. No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Adobe Adobe Acrobat has saved us time in managing documents. In this day, everything is fast, moves fast, and keeping up with that pace demands software that functions at the same level. Adobe Acrobat does that. It has streamlined the steps I need to take to edit and create documents we need to manage our customers. Adobe Acrobat removes the worry and stress associated with managing a large influx of documents. Something as simple as a document featuring an image that was sent to us upside down. Using the old method, I would have to open other software, click 'Edit', find the 'Rotate Image' button, click it a couple of times, save it as a JPEG, then attach it to Word, and finally save it as a PDF. It was a grueling process that consumed a great deal of time. Now, I simply open the image, and Adobe automatically recognizes it is upside down and fixes it for me. I can save and move on; it literally takes me seconds. Amazing. Adobe Acrobat is intuitive and easy to use, and the additional apps are relevant to the needs that come up. If I have an idea, I can go to the available apps and find exactly what I need. Impressive and speaks to the years of experience this company has had to fine-tune its product and make it obvious that it is aggressive in staying on top. Incentivized DB Dennis Blocker Office Manager Read full review	Autodesk AutoCAD has helped our smaller firm produce lots of finished products matching that of a much larger size firm. With its many features, we have been able to do so much more and meet deadlines that much faster. Since we do use AutoCAD, we're able to work with many other engineering firms to collaborate together to complete various building projects. We have many clients now who expect us to provide for them at the end of a project not just printed construction drawings but also the digital AutoCAD drawing so they can in turn use it for future modifications themselves. Incentivized Paul Li Senior Associate Read full review	Bluebeam, Inc. A major positive aspect is being able to take your computer home without taking the entire set of paper drawings. They have made it so easy to navigate a set of drawings that I can work at home using only the digital drawings. Collaboration with owners and architects has been a great feature. Setting up a Bluebeam studio and having everyone get in and mark things up, then having the architect be able to go in and see what markups have been added, has made the constructability review process much much better. Even when not working on drawings, Bluebeam is a very good tool for working with standard PDF documents. The markup tools are very easy to use. The negative aspect is the takeoff function because some people would like estimators to use the Bluebeam takeoff because it would make their job easier down the road; however, the actual act of doing a full scale takeoff in Bluebeam would require much more time. Incentivized Charlie Jewkes Estimator Read full review
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