Measuring of existing house

[TheBandedBee]

Hello everyone,

 

Most of my work involves renovations to existing buildings where I have to measure up the existing building first. So far, the tape measure and laser measure is working fine, but I have seen some products on social media that appears to make this step easier...or so it seems.

 

I am wondering, is there a specific laser and app I can use to measure a certain distance, or a room(s) for that matter, which at the same time communicates this information to Chief Architect. So if I have a rough layout of an existing house drawn up in CA, and then go from room to room with the laser and do my measurements, can it transfer these measurements to CA and adjust the room size automatically?

 

Not sure if what I am asking is too much, but it is worth a try :-)

[MarkMc]

Many of the Leica Disto lasers have an app available that will do what you want. I've used the E7500i for a long time though retired now. (made a half hearted attempt to sell it for a while ). I believe that has been discontinued but newer versions likely work. The differences between the versions have to do with advanced features that allow measuring difficult situations.

It can be a bit tricky at first, also was a little annoying changing to new versions which I found unnecessary. I just kept it assigned to X9 which simplified life. 

 

I've used it to input directly drawing all new, to input directly to adjust rough drawing, and to record and input manually. Al the fella that taught me eventually switched to shooting the room then input manually. I never decided which I liked better, both have pros and cons. I'd also occasionally had an assistant measure and call out dims to me. This worked really well once a room was done to add electric etc. (though the memory function works just as well as an assistant.)

 

Note that I had clients that tried Canvas and in most cases that was not really accurate great, some were a total disaster-YMMV and that was some time ago. I eventually refused to work with anything supplied by them.

[TheBandedBee]

Thank you, I will look into it.

Much appreciated