Bluebeam’s Revu is a popular Windows OS PDF markup and editing software amongst architecture, construction, and engineering firms. To have the full functionality of the software’s file-locking capability with LucidLink, the following 2 configuration changes must be made from a command prompt.

1. The mount point of the LucidLink filespace on each user’s Windows machine using Bluebeam Revu must be a UNC path. ( i.e. \\lucidlink\filespace ). 
   1. Failure to do so will not produce a popup window in Bluebeam Revu notifying a user that another user has that same file open. Only when the user tries to save changes to the file will they be notified that the file is read-only.
   2. Note: One can mount the LucidLink filespace as a UNC path and a Windows drive letter simultaneously ( i.e. \\lucidlink\filespace;b: )
2. The file extension pdf must be entered into the File Locking Extensions list. 
   1. Failure to make this change will result in no locking occurring amongst users opening the same pdf file, resulting in users potentially overwriting other users’ work on the same pdf file (the last write wins). 

First, let’s set the LucidLink mount point as a UNC path and drive letter and make it the default for all user’s of the Filespace. To do this, login to the filespace as a LucidLink administrator and open a command prompt. Type the following where:

• --instance 2001 is the instance id of the filespace found by issuing lucid list at a command prompt.
• --global to set globally. --local would be used to set for this machine only.
• '\\lucidlink\v3filespace\;b:' 
  • lucidlink can be any name.
  • v3filespace can be any name. 
  • b: can be any drive letter, and ;b: can be omitted if desired, mounting only as a UNC path. 

 
lucid --instance 2001 config --set --global --FileSystem.MountPointWindows '\\lucidlink\v3filespace\;b:'

Press the ENTER key. You will be prompted to enter the password of the LucidLink administrator you signed in as. 

After making the change, all user's will need to reconnect to the filespace to mount under the new default mount point. 

Next, the file extension pdf must be entered into the File locking extensions list while logged into the filespace as a LucidLink administrator. 

You will need to capture the current list of locking extensions configured. To do this, type the following at a command prompt: 

lucid --instance 2001 config --no-trim

This will produce output listing the EFFECTIVE and CONFIGURED options for each configurable option. Copy the CONFIGURED list of file extensions for FileSystem.LockingExtensions. 

Then, type the following at a command prompt copy pasting the extensions list you just copied and adding ,pdf to the end of the list: 

lucid --instance 2001 config --set --global --FileSystem.LockingExtensions indd,idlk,dbl,dwl,dwl2,dwt,dwg,ppt,pptx,xls,xlsx,doc,docx,rvt,revit:dat,pdf

Press the ENTER key. You will be prompted to enter the password of the LucidLink administrator you signed in as. 

Changes will be effective immediately across all uses without a need to reconnect to the filespace.