Showing posts with label CAD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CAD. Show all posts

February 6, 2015

Add you own parameter fields to OrthoGraph

Have you ever been on site where you needed to register the condition of the walls, the type of windows or the number of wall outlets etc.? You can use the Notes field at most of the entities in OrthoGraph but wouldn’t it be great if there were a dedicated field for it?
It is impossible to create and handle a property sheet with all possible properties, so instead of that we let you decide:
We developed a new feature that allows any user to add their own property.

How does it work?

From OrthoGraph 9.3 you can add your own property to OrthoGraph. Just use the property tool and touch an object, a wall-section or a door/window. The element properties window will pop up and in the top right corner you will see a little + icon. Simply tap on it to add a new property.


Scroll down the toolbar and type in the name of your new property. After that you can choose from 6 different type of data fields:

-Text is ideal for any kind of information
-Integer means natural numbers but it doesn't allow fractions. (e.g.:1; 3; 6,)
-Float means numbers with decimal( 2.26 ; 3.128)
-Length will mean data in meter, cm, foot, inch...
-Yes/No means a little switch that has two positions
-Picture allows you attach a picture



Choose the one you need and save your new property. After that the new property will be on the property sheet of any same element type. So if you create a property for a wall section then it will also appear on the property sheet of any other wall section. But it won't appear at any object's or opening's property sheet.






If you would like to delete a particular property than you do not have to do anything else but swipe your finger left on that property and tap on the delete button.

When your property name and data type is defined then you can type in the data. 

So add any important property you need because from now on it is all possible in OrthoGraph!

Your OrthoGraph Team





December 1, 2014

OrthoGraph and Point Clouds

Both OrthoGraph with the floor plans and Point Clouds are  great tools for building surveying but what are the differences and the connections between these two useful tools? This article gives a you a detailed answer for this question.

About Point Clouds

Point clouds are  created by 3D scanners. These devices measure a large number of points on an object's surface, and  output a point cloud as a data file. The point cloud represents the set of points that the device has measured. The large number of data points results in a high information content; this allows for a quick and detailed depiction of complex objects.

In architecture it is used mainly for site measurements of buildings. This is especially interesting for older buildings that often do not exhibit any regular geometric features. Difficult to access objects such as facades and roof constructions can be efficiently dealt with using laser scanning.





About OrthoGraph Floor Plans

A floor plan is a drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure.
OrthoGraph Floor Plans contain the outlines of the  buildings / rooms. Floor plans are good when you would like to calculate with area , perimeter and other metrics or you would like to see the structure of a building . Floor plans are also the official formats in real estate business, in interior design or  in architecture. Simple floor plans can be also indispensable for painters, tilers and for other craftsmen.







Point Clouds OrthoGraph Floor Plans
Great forreval hidden details x
Great for seeing the structure of a building x
Small, easy to send file size x
Official format in many professions x
Good for understand different layers x




Use Point Clouds in OrthoGraph

Did you know that OrthoGraph can handle special point clouds?  If you Use Point Cab, it can create sectional views which can be uploaded to OrthoGraph as a background picture.  Using such an accurate background picture can ease your work. For example, you don't have to calibrate point cloud pictures like other backgrounds, as these point cloud files contain dimensional data. If you have a point cloud file it is just a few click to create a 100% accurate  floor plan with instant reports and PDF room books.





More information about floor plans:
http://www.laserscanning-europe.com/en 

More information about OrthoGraph:

http://www.orthograph.net/


Your OrthoGraph Team




October 6, 2014

OrthoGraph among the Tabby Awards Finalists



We proudly share the fact with you that OrthoGraph is among the Tabby Awards Business 2014 finalists.

OrthoGraph is listed -together with four other apps-  as a finalist in the category called " iPad- in-the field".



The Tabby Awards /Business, the only competition for the best business and enterprise tablet apps, today announced the Finalists for 2014.

An international panel of 20 independent judges reviewed entries from a dozen countries and selected the 75 best business apps for Android, iPad and Windows tablets in 26 categories.

You can read the full list of finalists here.

We hope that we will be equally successful in the final round of the Tabby Awards /Business 2014 competition.

Until that stay tuned, OrthoGraph 9.0 will be soon released with stunning new features...

Your OrthoGraph team


August 1, 2014

You can have an impact on OrthoGraph’s future!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kw9wdDqxMJkOGyItz48tnqJjKBeJuVDPf2HpFSLbJ9A/viewform


Now, you have the opportunity to share your opinion with us.

As always, we would like to develop  OrthoGraph based on the customer demands that’s why we ask you to fill out our questionnaire.

As a response for your help we will provide you with a gift: a 1-month free OrthoGraph Cloud Business access dedicated to you and 1 employee license that you can hand over to one of your colleagues.

Share your thoughts and have a real impact on OrthoGraph’s future because we truly believe that your opinion really matters!

It’s summer, so we were joking around a little bit and we created this funny video to motivate you to fill our questionnaire:



Your OrthoGraph Team

July 23, 2014

OrthoGraph wins gold trophy as the best App in 2014!

The OrthoGraph Architect App has been named the gold winner in App of the Year category and silver winner in the Most Innovative Product of the Year - SMB category in Best in Biz Awards 2014 International, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

App of the Year Most Innovative Product of the Year



We are very proud of what we have achieved. It is a honor for us that we were selected as gold and silver medalists in such a prestigious contest, especially because there were such prominent participants in Product category like Dell, Epson, Blackberry, Toshiba, Lenovo etc...


Being the best iPad App in 2014 according to the professional  judges of the Awards means us a great recognition of our hard work and motivates us to grow even better, use the modernest technologies to provide the best building survey solution for our customers.

Download our Award winning App: 
https://itunes.apple.com/hu/app/orthograph-architect-3d-cad/id464252559?mt=8

Read the complete list of winners here:
http://intl.bestinbizawards.com/intl-2014-winners/


Your OrthoGraph Team

June 27, 2014

OrthoGraph - the lightest measuring kit just born!

Leica and OrthoGraph together are today’s most lightweight professional AEC measuring system! The new Disto D110 with its small size but professional performance together with OrthoGraph’s Sketch&Tap and measure functionality provides the ultimate lightweight solution for all building professionals.

Get the wall surface as a painter or exact distances and angles as a carpenter, create detailed floor plans as an architect or be as fast as possible as an energy auditor, OrthoGraph and Leica are the right tools best fitting your hand. For those of you who need 3D Walkthrough like real estate agents OrthoGraph weights the same: it's there in the package!

Were you wondering about which measuring equipment is easier to carry with you all day long: The traditional tape measure with sketchbook and pencil or OrthoGraph on an iPad Mini with the Leica D110?

We measured the weight of both. Watch our physical experiment now:



The four buttons on the new distance meter are just right enough! This very affordable tool needs only one of them to send all required measurements to OrthoGraph. The result is accurate, fast: a floor plan already in CAD format!


Use OrthoGraph with the world’s first pocket-sized laser distance meter, because OrthoGraph with Leica Disto D110 makes the ultimate lightweight measuring kit that weights only 423 grams.


Download OrthoGraph Architect now to get the D110 support!


Your OrthoGraph Team

June 24, 2014

OrthoGraph among the best iPad Apps!

OrthoGraph was  included in The best iPad apps for architects.
The appPicker website ,that collects and sorts mobile apps, chose our software one of The best iPad apps for architects.
OrthoGraph was included in a list that contains 10 mobile applications specially chosen for the needs of people who work as architects or study architecture.


http://www.apppicker.com/applists/5771/The-best-iPad-apps-for-architects


We feel proud and rewarded that OrthoGraph is in that list and this result also stimulates us to constantly renew and improve our application. Our mission is always to provide the best AEC CAD app that meets the highest quality standards and makes the building survey an effective, fast process with high accuracy.

Are you ready for the newest version of OrthoGraph with stunning new features?
We are working hard on the new version, it's coming soon.

Your OrthoGraph Team

June 18, 2014

Summer Discount - Buy OrthoGraph with a great discount

Celebrating Summer, (and our CEO's birthday ) we decided to present you with a special offer. Buy OrthoGraph Architetct, the professional building survey application for iPad with 20% discount today.

https://itunes.apple.com/hu/app/orthograph-architect-3d-cad/id464252559?mt=8




From now on till the next update you can buy OrthoGraph Architect in the Appstore 20% less than normally.

Download it now, and enjoy the most advanced AEC CAD App running on iPad and use all of it's 16 unique features that makes OrthoGraph outstanding. 


We wish you a pleasant summer,

Your OrthoGraph team

March 11, 2014

Multi-purpose PDF room books of OrthoGraph

Have you ever thought of how great it would be to have a detailed room book of what you have drawn and measured on the spot? All rooms with their drawings, furniture list, sizes, calculations and even with the images you shot on-site? We did.

The PDF export feature of OrthoGraph is there for you including everything you drawn, measured and entered into the floor plan. Use it as a professional architect, painter, tiler, forensics with all details or as a retail agency containing fancy renders of the flat you wish to introduce.

The OrthoGraph Architect App has several export options, one of them is the PDF export format. With this PDF export, you can create so called "room books" with a click. The App automatically generates the PDF file containing well arranged and detailed data and pictures about the full project.

A page of a PDF room book


The PDF room book contains all data such as area of the location, area of the walls, perimeter, area of the windows and doors regarding all created locations of  each room of a project. The room book lists the objects of a room/building with all properties. You can read here the width, depth, height and all properties, images of every objects in their corresponding locations.

The PDF lists the previously attached pictures both attached to the objects and also to all windows/doors.  Use the camera of your iPad or use a previously created photo and attach it to the properties of an object.

A page of a PDF room book with attached pictures




Additionally, the PDF file contains a drawing of the floor plan regarding every single location. You can control whether you want to see the flooring, the reference line or the objects. You can turn on or off these in the view toolbar with the three state switches. The PDF will show the same you see on the editor screen of your iPad.

On the picture below, you can see a perfect output for real estate agents. Visible flooring and objects make this version of the floor plan an excellent presentation tool on a real estate website because everyday people are willing to prefer realistic drawings over technical floor plans.

A first page of a PDF room book-view options optimized for real estate agents

For architects who are only interested about the structure of the building, we suggest to use the PDF output when the visibility of the flooring and the objects are turned off, but the dimension and the room labels are visible.

A first page of a PDF room book-view options optimized for architects



Now, are you curious about how to create a room book? It is super easy, just go to the survey toolbar and click on the send by email tool or the save to Box/DropBox tool. Here you can choose from six output options. Now you need to choose the PDF output. After you have clicked on the PDF button, the App automatically creates pictures of the different locations separately and together (from the current view you are standing). It takes only a few seconds, after that, the email client will pop up, and you can simply add the recipient(s) and send the email. Watch the video below to see it live:



The PDF roombook is a very useful tool if you need the documentations of your projects. This function can help a lot when you want to see all information together. Whether you are an interior designer, an architect or a real estate agent, PDF room book will be indispensable for you after you have tried it.

So now you know: if you need a summary about your project, or you would like to see all important information and calculations regarding a building or building complex together, or you just need this information only regarding to a room - it is there for you, direct on the spot.

Best,
The OrthoGraph Team

February 25, 2014

OrthoGraph Cloud is available in German and Hungarian as well



We proudly announce that besides English, from now on, OrthoGraph Cloud is available in German and Hungarian too! 

Not only the entire website  is translated but the  automatic system messages will arrive in your selected language after you have given your language preferences in the Settings.

Use OrthoGraph in your native language, enjoy the automatic server backups and work in teams!

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Wir sind stolz verkünden zu können, dass neben Englisch, von nun an Orthograph Cloud auch in Deutsch und Ungarisch verfügbar ist!

Nicht nur die gesamte Webseite wurde übersetzt, die automatischen System-Meldungen werden in der ausgewählten Sprache kommen, nachdem Sie Ihre Spracheinstellungen in den Einstellungen angegeben haben.

Benutzen Sie Orthograph in Ihrer Muttersprache und genießen Sie die automatischen Server-Backups und arbeiten Sie in Teams!

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Büszkén jelentjük be, hogy az angol mellett, mától már németül és magyarul is elérhető az OrthoGraph Cloud!

Nem csak a teljes honlap, hanem a rendszerüzenetek is az ön által kiválasztott nyelven fognak érkezni, miután megadta nyelvi preferenciáit a Beállítások menüpontban.

Használja az OrthoGraph-ot az anyanyelvén és vegye igénybe az autómatikus biztonsági mentéseket és a csapatmunka funkciót!




Best,
The OrthoGraph Team




June 5, 2012

OrthoGraph Architect 3D launched

1st June, 2012 - OrthoGraph Architect 3.0 has became available from the AppStore: http://bit.ly/IzrX6B

Many professional architects and building surveyors are enthusiastic of the stunning tablet of Apple, and are searching for apps running on it giving all support for their everyday work. Until now they failed to find any with all necessary features. The new OrthoGraph Architect 3D offers CAD editing and even more: 3D walkthrough on the spot and full BIM support, making it to “the” candidate.

OrthoGraph™ Architect 3D is designed for on-site surveying of flats, houses with the stunning tablet of Apple™. The app enables the on-site drawing of the floor-plan of any real estate (including land plots, buildings, rooms etc.) in an easy, fast and accurate way. The unique support of BIM data lets users to store parametric data or photos with nearly all graphical elements like walls, furniture or equipments.

The new version has an extended object library, new PDF export format, and the new e-mail export channel besides the former Dropbox integration. Walls and floors can have their materials from now on, and everything can be seen in 3D instantly by switching between the floor plan and 3D view on the spot.

Another unique feature is the use of blueprints and point cloud data as a background to the drawings. Based on PointCab's preprocessed LSE format it is easy to use point cloud data to create extremely accurate floor plans rapidly that can be further transferred to several CAD applications.

The PDF output is a room-book starting with a summary section of the floor plan, main data and sections for each location including the floor plan of the relevant room, its properties and the object inventory contained.

Besides English OrthoGraph is available in German, French, Italian and Hungarian, other languages are also planned to come soon.


May 28, 2012

OrthoGraph 3.0, the 3rd dimension - unleashed soon

The next major update of OrthoGraph Architect is planned for next week. There will be plenty of new features, but the update for our existing users will be available for free of charge. Buy OrthoGraph Architect now before the price gets increased http://bit.ly/IzrX6B

Some major changes only to have a short overview:
  • Instant 3D walkthrough in everything you have drawn
  • PDF room book, summary, the every room detailed with images, objects etc.
  • E-mail drawings, files everything you create directly from the application
  • New object types like toilet, basin, stairs and many more. Available also in 3D
  • Handling of floorings and coverings
  • Pointcloud data to be imported through PointCab's preprocessed LSE format on the field
  • Move and resize any door and window simply by your finger
  • Localizations: English, French, German, Italian and Hungarian
  • Grid, reinvented drawing rebuild algorithms and many more...

The first and only BIM building survey app running on iPad now gets 3D functionality. All DWG and ArchiCAD compatibility is also available in this upcoming version.

Buy OrthoGraph Architect now and join our satisfied user group.

April 18, 2012

OrthoGraph iPad desk stand


We ordered this unique iPad desk stand from a sculptor to hand it over to one lucky winner, who purchases any of the OrthoGraph CAD converters before 1st July 2012. It can hold the iPad in two positions to be comfortable for any use.


Check it out on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPCf4z2FMhU

 The OrthoGraph CAD converters are available on our website: http://orthograph.net/ortho-eng_product.php?cmd=2

October 17, 2011

ArchiCAD Renovation Webinar Success

Graphisoft together with OrthoGraph has presented its new Renovation functionality facilitated by ArchiCAD 15. On the webinar users could see the integration of OrthoGraph Architect (iPad version) into ArchiCAD, and the workflow of how the as-built surveys can be processed to be a 3D BIM model in ArchiCAD 15.

Please check out the following video of the webinar:

Graphisoft ArchiCAD 15 - Renovation Webinar together with OrthoGraph