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Pin up your sheets, review them together.

Revit has no pin-up wall. Pinup captures your whole sheet set as a gallery, lets the team flag, pin and mark it up, hands even reviewers without Revit one file to red-line — and folds every comment back onto your sheets, attributed and de-duplicated.

Works on any sheet setRevit 2022–2026Reviewers need no Revit
Why Pinup exists

A pin-up session — without the wall, or the felt-tip pen.

Set reviews happen on paper prints or in email threads, and the redlines rarely make it back to the model. Pinup keeps the whole review in one place: on the drawing, attributed, and reversible.

Revit on its own
  • No way to see the whole set at a glance.
  • External reviewers need Revit — or a pile of PDFs.
  • Redlines live in email and get lost.
The same review, with Pinup
  • The set is a gallery: flag, approve, pin, mark up.
  • Anyone red-lines a single HTML file, offline.
  • Their comments come back onto the sheets, attributed.
How Pinup works · input → output

Capture the set once. The team reviews it together.

Pinup has two halves. The BIM Manager captures the set and opens the review; the whole team — and reviewers with no Revit at all — mark it up, and everything folds back into one record.

Isolate:
INInput · you capture it
The sheet setBIM Manager, once per issue
Sheets or viewsPNG + vector PDFVersion archive
OUTOutput · the team reviews it
Approve · sign a sheet off
!Flag · needs attention
Pin an issue · a thread with a status
Share HTML · review without Revit
64%
In review
one HTML report

Tap Input or Output to isolate a half — the other collapses.

INThe input · capture the set, once

Before anyone reviews, the set goes onto the wall.

Pick the sheets, choose the fidelity, press Capture. Everything downstream — the gallery, the pins, the shareable file, the report — runs on this snapshot.

Who does this: BIM Manager / Coordinator

Captures the set and opens the review. The window floats, so the model stays live next to it.

Step 1 · Pick & capture

Your sheet set, captured as evidence.

The problem: a set review starts with an hour of opening sheets one by one, or printing PDFs that are stale before lunch. In Pinup you toggle Sheets or Views, filter, pick a saved sheet set, and press Capture. Each sheet exports to a deterministic PNG — number-and-name, stable across recaptures — plus an optional vector PDF that stays razor-sharp at any zoom. 'Skip already captured' makes the second pass cost only what changed.

New to Revit: a reproducible snapshot of the whole set — the same sheet always lands in the same file, so everything downstream can trust it.
Who: BIM Manager captures the set
BIMIO · PinupBIMIO
SheetsViewsSet: Issue Review CVector PDFSkip already capturedCapture:2000px4000px
Filter by number or name…
A-101Ground Floor Plan
A-102First Floor Plan
A-103Second Floor Plan
A-201North & South Elevations
S-101Foundation Plan
M-101Level 1 HVAC Layout
AllNone24 of 24 sheet(s) selectedView last capture (24 · 04 Jul 16:20)CloseCapture 24
Step 2 · Recapture → history

Every recapture keeps the old sheet. That becomes your diff.

The problem: 'what changed on this sheet since the last issue?' usually means printing both and squinting. When Pinup recaptures a sheet it archives the previous image as V1, V2… — and the lightbox grows version chips: view any version, or press ◧ Compare and drag a curtain across the sheet, old on the left, current on the right. The change shows itself.

New to Revit: a visual diff between issues of the same sheet, built automatically from the captures you were already taking.
Who: BIM Manager, before re-issuing
BIMIO · Pinup — A-103 Second Floor PlanBIMIO
A-103Second Floor PlanV1V2Current◧ Compare3 / 24 · scroll zoom · drag pan · dbl-click reset📍 Pin mode (p)✓ Approve (a)⚑ Flag (f)Back to gallery (esc)
The set is on the wall — now the review begins, everyone on the same sheets.

Everything below runs on the gallery captured above.

OUTThe output · a review, together

The set becomes a gallery the whole team marks up.

Triage the wall, talk on the drawing, send one file to reviewers without Revit, and pull every comment back home — attributed, de-duplicated, in one record.

Who lives this: the whole team + external reviewers

Modelers and reviewers flag, pin and mark up; the manager reads the status and exports the record.

Step 3 · Triage the wall

Every sheet at a glance — approve, flag, filter, act.

The problem: 'is the set reviewed?' lives in somebody's head. The gallery makes it a wall you can read: every card carries its version badge, its ✓ approved or ⚑ flagged state, its pin and markup counts, a comment bubble. Filter to Flagged before a meeting, to Untouched before an issue — nine sheets nobody has looked at is a risk you can now see. The bottom bar is the whole workflow in one row: import a review, export the register, the contact sheet or the shareable HTML.

New to Revit: a live status board for drawing review — Revit has no concept of 'this sheet has been looked at'.
Who: the whole review team
BIMIO · Pinup — Riverside Tower — Block ABIMIO
Sheet set — Riverside Tower — Block A24 captured at 4000px · 16:20
click to inspect · scroll to zoom · ✓ approved · ⚑ flagged
All⚑ Flagged✓ ApprovedAnnotatedUntouched
V2📍 6 ✏ 4
A-101Ground Floor Plan
V2📍 7 ✏ 5💬
A-103Second Floor Plan
V1📍 5 ✏ 4💬
A-201N & S Elevations
V2📍 4 ✏ 3
S-101Foundation Plan
V1📍 6 ✏ 4💬
S-102Level 1 Framing
V1📍 4 ✏ 3
M-101Level 1 HVAC
V1📍 2 ✏ 1
A-105Roof Plan
V1
A-302Section BB
← Back to selectionOpen folderShared folder…Import review…Sheet register (CSV)Contact sheetExport shareable HTMLClose
Step 4 · Talk on the drawing

Pin the exact spot — then run the issue to closed.

The problem: review comments live in emails, detached from the drawing, and nobody knows which are still open. In the lightbox you drop a numbered pin exactly where the issue is. Pins at the same point form a thread — reply, and cycle its status: Open → In progress → Resolved → Verified. The pin's colour follows, so the sheet itself shows what is still alive. A sheet note carries the general remarks, and everything is saved with author and date.

New to Revit: issue threads with a lifecycle, anchored to a point on the drawing — not a PDF comment, not an email.
Who: reviewers, on the sheet
BIMIO · Pinup — A-103 Second Floor PlanBIMIO
1234
Sheet note
[Ana] Core dimensions are off on grid 3 — check against the structural setting-out.
Pins · 2 open
Pin mode (p) + click the drawing to add one
1
AnaCore dimensions are off on grid 3.
FrancisRe-checked — 150 mm out vs the structural setting-out.
In progressReply…
A-103Second Floor PlanV1V2Current◧ Compare3 / 24 · scroll zoom · drag pan · dbl-click reset📍 Pin mode (p)✓ Approve (a)⚑ Flag (f)Back to gallery (esc)
Step 5 · Choose the weight

One dialog decides how heavy the file you send is.

The problem: vector-sharp review files are beautiful — and too heavy to email. When you export the shareable review, Pinup asks one question: High keeps the vector PDF (razor-sharp at any zoom, largest file), Medium and Low drop it for a high- or reduced-resolution image. The manager trades fidelity for weight deliberately, instead of discovering a 200 MB attachment bounce.

New to Revit: an honest fidelity-versus-weight decision at export time — not a surprise after the email fails.
Who: BIM Manager, at export
BIMIO · PinupBIMIO
Shareable export quality
The single-file review is heaviest when it carries the vector PDF. Lower it to email comfortably.
High — vector PDFRazor-sharp at any zoom. Largest file.
Medium — high-resolution imageNo vector. Crisp on screen, much lighter.
Low — reduced imageNo vector. Smallest file, for quick email.
CancelExport
Step 6 · Review without Revit

Send one file. Anyone red-lines it — properly.

The problem: consultants and clients don't have Revit, so their markups arrive as scanned paper or PDF comments that never reconcile. The shareable HTML is a full review workstation in a browser, offline: sixteen markup tools — pins, pencil, arrows, rectangles, ellipses, revision clouds, highlighter, text, leaders, dimensions and areas calibrated in real metres, an eraser, pasted images, a counter — plus APPROVED / REVISE / REJECTED stamps and four semantic colours. Their whole review saves itself in the browser and exports as one small text file.

New to Revit: a real markup toolkit — with calibrated measurement — that runs from a single file, no install, no licence, no internet.
Who: external reviewers, in a browser
review — Riverside Tower · Issue Review C.htmlAny browser · offline · no Revit
📍🖍T📏🖼🔢
REVISE1
Sheet note
[Ana] Core dimensions are off on grid 3.
Pins
1
AnaCore dimensions are off on grid 3.
Reply…
📏 1:100 ▾ · click-click to measure · J/K sheetsOpen the live review ↗
This one is real — open it, drop a pin, draw a cloud. It is the exact file Pinup exports.
Step 7 · It all comes home

Import the review — every mark lands, attributed, once.

The problem: collecting redlines from five reviewers normally means transcribing them by hand. Their review downloads as a small text file; Import review… merges it — every pin, stroke and note lands on the right sheet, attributed to its author, de-duplicated so importing twice never doubles anything, with a forensic log of what was applied. Point several colleagues at a shared team folder and Pinup goes further: everyone's marks publish and merge automatically, live, one file per author.

New to Revit: a review round-trip that reconciles itself — and a team folder where reviews sync without anyone pressing a button.
Who: the manager merges; the team folder syncs itself
BIMIO · Pinup — Riverside Tower — Block ABIMIO
All⚑ Flagged✓ ApprovedAnnotatedUntouched
V2📍 7 ✏ 5💬
A-103Second Floor Plan
V1📍 5 ✏ 4💬
A-201N & S Elevations
V1📍 6 ✏ 4💬
S-102Level 1 Framing
V1📍 3 ✏ 2💬
M-102Level 2 HVAC
← Back to selectionReview imported — 12 change(s)/pin(s) from Ana. (log: review - Ana.txt.import-log.txt) · Team sync — new review activity merged at 17:42:08.
See the real output

This is an actual HTML report Pinup exports — self-contained, works offline, shareable as one file. Scroll it right here, or open it full-screen.

Open full report

See the whole set. Review it as one.

Pin up your sheets, mark them up together, and hand the record to anyone. Pinup is in the View panel of the BIMIO tab.

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