The only 'weird' thing is: it looks like you are walking around in the building in 3D, but as you get closer to things, the points 'spread out' and you lose focus. I still simplify measurements and make sure all my corners are 90° etc It's like having the building in your office and instead of using your tape or laser measure, you just press 'm' in Archicad and go to town. It will display according to your floor plan cut plane settings. I could go on for a while with regards to renovation filters when you start to actually dig in to the renovation side of the project, but I don't think that is the intent of this topic.įor smaller projects as these, you will generally be able to load up a single point cloud.Īrchicad will basically 'snap' to all the points. I would guess between 16 and 32 hours on average for moddeling existing buildings for us, depending on the complexity of the building. You need to work with this model a lot going forward and nothing is more frustrating than working with rediculous accuracy in dimensions. Whole heartedly agree with rounding up to easy numbers. Same with stairs for width and going etc etc There are also many building regulations with required dimensions for door openings etc, so there are a lot of educated guesses that can be taken. Netherlands for the most part is a country of bricklayers, this makes guess-timating measurements from photographs a breeze (so many bricks wide and tall), which is another method we use (just measure the bricks to see which 'standard' size they are and what brick + mortar adds up to). It certainly outweighs the hours we would spend measuring by hand. It is very easy to miss measurements, as you pointed out, and prices for pointclouds have significicantly dropped over the years. In the rare cases where archival drawings are unavailable and the renovation is large enough, we get a 3rd party to create a pointcloud for us. We don't have 'mobile' Archicad solutions, so never tried this. I like Redstick site cad because it’s very easy to use and take it on site with a small tablet if need be and you can also export to IFC. I learnt to use earlier versions of Archicad from those videos. Please see this video of Redstick site cad and this person who made this video used to also make the Archicad virtual tutor video series here in Australia. A human assistant is good when the kids are at school lol ? Then I bought an app to use on site to make measuring up on site easier for me and to work on my own. I can certainly do a similar house in Chief Architect in the same time but with Archicad I would probably need 30 hours because I am not as experienced in using it as you are. It’s great that you can do that house in only 20 hours with Archicad with your template and many years of experience. Then I bought a motion tablet and used Chief Architect on site with an input stylus pen and a lieca disto to input dimensions into the application with Bluetooth. I used to do all my as built surveys by hand right up until 2010 approximately and built my 3D model at home using Chief Architect because that was faster for me to model up in that particular CAD application because that’s what I started in. Timber buildings do move a bit so it’s not usually necessary to be overly pedantic especially when the existing building is not modified too much. I try and stay within a 10mm accuracy or just under 1/2 an inch, the external overall dimensions might be just over and we can usually work out the intentions of the builder anyway. Great video Jared, we all have to be realistic on site when we do an as built survey.
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