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i do this by selecting all area then select one side of the building and use the TNR to move x distance. do the same in the Y direction. The trick is to pick the area where there is a room that can be made bigger. If you have to go through a couple rooms, then you might have to move the walls for that room. It does screw up the roofs though, so you will need to fix those. something like:

i find i need to reboot every once in awhile, but even then, that does not always work for some plans. I have seen the same behaviour as Robert, typing text, and opening dialogs is slow ..and I have auto build framing always off ..and i close PBR windows to try and speed things up

interesting on the tracing an image vs processing an image. When I was trying Chatgpt, it actually suggested chatgpt to create a python script to process images x,y, location of walls, windows,,etc in the image (for undimensioned, but containing a scale) and then creating a CA instruction set. ..havent tried it yet but sounded interesting in that it would be reusable

do that. There are some very specific things to know to make your life easier. and search this forum for all of the "workarounds" and tips when you have an issue. The best tip i think I ever learned was to keep walls aligned between floor levels using the alignment tool. That and creating rooms with different floor elevations on the same floor level is a PIA (for these types of plans you need to continually watch the floor and ceilings of the other levels as CA will adjust them without you noticing) and either create a layout and plan template so you dont have to keep doing things every time, or buy one from rene or others.

I'm using a local model which is not listed. I assume CA only listed the couple they may have tried it with

are you one the correct floor?

I would also like this. In the meantime, I take cross sections, and dimension them to the plate, top of fascia, top of heel, and ridge

did the as built app give you all those nice round numbers?

there are a couple threads on different technology and include discussions of it. I think valleyguy has the most accurate & efficient workflow. He uses the app to create the floor plan and then uses a laser to measure things and marks them down in an ipad app. I tested it on a few houses early on. It cant be used blindly on the examples I tried it on. The question you are left with is what walls do I have to change to make it accurate? I ama considering using it for floors not of interest. As with many of these apps, they measure the walls, and then try and line up common walls to form rooms and stich them together. And when the walls do not line up, the software makes decisions in order to make them line up. The problem is you don't know what decisions it made, and if they were correct. For the $1200 for the pro, i'm starting to think a cheaper lidar point cloud scanner is the better option @ 5k or less and not have to wonder which walls might be out

Thats why I like to go to site ...the robots are not here yet

that of course begs the question, cant it go watch the training videos and read the doc :o) ..and of course read all the posts here for all the workarounds... or is it pattern based training, like here MR AI is a picture of the floor plan, and here is the corresponding plan in CA I created. repeat for 100. ...but I think that might be more difficult...as it still would not "know" how to create it. in watching the revit AI video from the point cloud, my guess is that is what they did, as it still does not do it all in the output that I saw ..or maybe it is both...

thats what i do today, but it is all manual work. A simple house can be done in a couple hours. but why not have AI do it, and go do something else for a few hours. Compared to what you are doing in the video, which is instruction after instruction, based on what you want, telling it to generate a model from an image would be more deterministic ( i shouldn't have to tell it anything after the initial instruction). Maybe harder for AI, but if it sat there all day trying different things until it got it right (assuming it didnt start using roof planes for slabs) then I can go do something else. I saw a demo of a company trying to turn point clouds into revit models yesterday, but that is a different approach. The approach in your video at the start is the push button approach, which interestingly may work better, who knows. It certainly piqued my interest

what did you give it to create the initial floor plan? and the floor plan is in CA?

i had the same question you had at the end...why is it using dialog boxes, vs directly doing things. ...looks like the answer is only certain things are available to it as a tool from the MCP server. What would be interesting is if one gave it an image of a floor plan and elevations, could one tell it to build the house in CA, go mow the lawn, go get groceries, come back 5 hours later and it would be done?

interesting, what do you measure for the site plan? For me, I have no idea where the property lines are when I am onsite, so there is not a lot to measure per se. I just take pictures of the building in order to try and create representative elevations. the one thing I might measure is the main floor to grade, front and back to get the terrain accurate for the elevations. Occasionally I will take a laser and measure elevation changes between certain points if for instance they are putting in a new garage on a sloped terrain

interesting thats a lot, today I take a video, but that even misses things, and well I cannot measure from it. Curious, have you looked at handheld scanners (no tripod to setup) which produce both point clouds and 3DGS, and/or 3DGS only cameras (which are also measurable). And if so, what got you to the LX1 vs a scanner or a 3DGS camera? example 3DGS XGRIDS LCC the measurement is nice as it shows you how far off the axis you are

that is surprising. even lower end commerical grade scanners are only accurate to +-0.75 inch. higher end to 1/8" I think I have convinced myself to go the SLAM (mobile) scanner route, just for the fact that if I missed something, like dropped beam, or stairs proud of a wall, I can go back to the point cloud and measure. Plus, they all seem to have actual cameras on them, so you also get a 3d model which actually look like the interior (similar to matterport). and they can do exterior so I could definitively know building height for instance. one time HW cost, no subscriptions, you own the data, can measure everything from the desktop. ...or at least I've convinced myself. most scanner vendor software can give you a floorplan (or alternatively trace the walls) The only question left is which one to buy. I'm currently in price creep mode

have you checked their dims against a laser...how close

They put out a demo video. But when they scan the second room and are measuring the last wall (which is a common wall to the first room), it draws that wall about 1 foot into the original room(erroneously) So I assume their measurements from the second room do not "Add up", and now either the program adjusted the length of the walls, or the user did and it just didnt show on the video.The biggest issue I have with corrections, is "which wall did they change, and how do they know it is the right one to change". My guess by watching this video is they just corrected the last wall scanned before the common wall, by the amount the common wall is out by. i.e. because it was out by a foot, they shortened the wall measured perpendicular to it by a foot HAve you seen this behaviour so far in your testing? Have you verified it against a laser? I'm in decision paralysis. Now I'm looking at SLAM scanners, about 6K, but you get a point cloud supposedly good to 0.5 inch, and you can walk and scan and be done in like 5 minutes. ...and it does exteriors. no subscriptions, one time HW cost only. looks like it picks up everything good enough to dimension windows, doors are tougher(almost have to measure the casing onsite and then dimension casing to casing)

hmmm...I havent remembered an issue with stepped foundations with the terrain on the foundation level. The more common case here are main floor cantilevers, especially for fireplaces. Terrain on the foundation level then means never having to think about filling in the cant hole I think there have been multiple suggestions around this whole issue, and one of them seemed to pique CA's interest (I think it was the suggestion to be able to edit the terrain on any level). So maybe the tradeoffs of using one way vs the other will all go away in X19 (one can always hope!)

...this is the reason i and others put the terrain on the foundation level

edit all areas, select scope, copy, paste to new plan...or if it is just the cabinets and fixtures, select them using ctrl key copy paste to new plan. or you can select with selection box

you probably need to post a screenshot or screen recording

i've noticed here its a bit of a standard practice for realtors to use iguide or matterport. Alberta real estate regulatory body has some rules for when floor space is included (over 5ft ceiling I think), so Iguide sells that feature constantly. I dont think I have not seen a listing with a iguide or matterport( in the pst 5 years), which means they are not created from blueprints. There is a website "honest door" which you can see some of the info realtors see for free. sometimes you can see the floorplan for recently sold listings. you can pay a fee to get a package which I assume is all of the pictures (and if the realtor did a floor plan, the floor plan) of any sold house. So I think, if something was sold in the last 15 years, there is a good chance the floor plan by iguide or matteprort is on the MLS.

yes it certainly is interesting, and odd...there would be nothing to nail the window to above the bottom plate