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The chat shortcut

An administrator types it in chat. Blueprints opens on their screen. That is the whole command. It takes no arguments, and it is matched exactly after trimming whitespace: hello !vblueprints is a sentence somebody typed, and Blueprints leaves it alone rather than eating the line.
The line is consumed for everybody who types it, authorised or not, so it never reaches the room. If nothing opens, you are not an admin on this server. If the line does reach the room, Blueprints is not running at all: see Troubleshooting.

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The console command

Run from the client console, in game. It does the same thing, and it takes an optional section name so you can land where you want:
To close it:

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Who may open it

Blueprints is gated on Garry’s Mod’s own IsAdmin check, which is what most admin mods (ULX, ServerGuard, SAM and others) set when they promote somebody. If your admin mod grants admin, Blueprints grants access. The gate is on the server, on every request the interface makes, not on the act of opening a window. An unauthorised player who somehow reaches the shell finds it empty: nothing inside it is drawn until the server answers, and the server refuses.
Licensing and recovery commands are narrower still. vetra_license_status, vetra_license_activate and vetra_license_recover require the server console or a superadmin, because activation binds this machine to a licence and consumes an allowance.

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If the window opens but shows nothing

The shell opening is deliberately not gated on your licence: an admin on a denied server has to be able to reach the screen that explains the denial. If the window is up and every section is empty or refusing, read the notice at the top of Overview, then Licensing and servers.