Melinda

Wow! I had no idea this thread was still alive! No, I didn't actually, the Company that promised to send me an example never, ever came through and sad to say, because of the nature of the project it ended up not being necessary. I structured my contract to include a preliminary feasibility and found that although the project was a completely straight forward interior remodel, the County involved (Bay are peeps can guess which one) wanted a whopping $142,000.00 to approach Planning with no guarantees they would say yes. We wanted to take a 10,000 square foot existing residence on 4 acres and split it into 4 apartments in a zone that was defined as one that could accommodate this type of multifamily housing. Go figure when you want to add housing in a County that desperately needs it, they want to $quash the idea. The client elected to not proceed so my impetus to continue pursuing this info wained. Thanks for all the comments! Great comment Rene! I agree completely, nada data is not data. I just did a sub contract for an Architect with a preliminary plan with no functional data (I was surprised, no roof slope, ridge heights, you name it, it wasn't there. I like you, can tell the measurements visually from a photo. Lot's of photo reconnaisanse on that project. You are way, way faster than I am though!!

Thank you guys. I have requested a sample plan and will let you all know how it works. I did watch the video on impporting the 2-d plan into Cheif to trace. Thanks for your input everyone!

I'm actually speaking to Texas Company called Spatial Acuity. Having never done this I am completely clueless about the nuts and bolts of the actual technology and how it translates, particularly to CA. Would love any and all comments or reccomendations of firms that have worked well with Cheif. Thanks David. So far I have only contacted the first firm.

Hi Guys I'm a long time Cheif user in Northern California, first time here on this Forum. I have a client that would like to utilize a service that laser scans and produces As Built drawings to expedite a large remodel I will be designing and drawing for them. I have never used this type of service before. My concerns are that the drawings will potentially not be fully correct or inclusive and most imporatantly not be executable in Cheif to the degree I expect. In other words how much tweaking will I have to do to As Builts produced this way. Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Help me figure this out! Thanks Melinda