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

Who's using OrthoGraph Architect?

We continuously investigate who could benefit from using OrthoGraph Architect, which are those professions who need the drawing features of our App. We communicate with people on many channels, and fortunately we get much feedback. Now we thought we share some of it with you. I'm sure you will find it interesting!

We use these facts and demands during our product development, as an outcome we can proudly say that we have over 1800 installations, with over 30% of them using OrthoGraph everyday, and 45% retention after 30 days. Both of these numbers are outstanding compared with AppStore applications in similar categories like Productivity, Business or Utility.

We have a global presence from Tasmania to Montreal, from Lyon to Kyoto, but the most important is not where OrthoGraph Architect is used, but what for. Of course, we have architects, interior designers, but also electrical contractors, energy evaluators, real estate traders, countertop makers, carpenters or  even an irrigation system designer.

Let us share some of our experiences with you, maybe you'll share your story in return.

We have the most feedback from architects, mostly they are surveying existing buildings or apartments for reconstruction or renovation. They make sketches with OrthoGraph on the spot and bring it back to the office for further processing. Our typical architect is a freelancer or co-owner of a small studio of 2-5 architects. Although this looks one solid group, their demands can vary from surveying rough blocks to a millimeter-exact floorplan, but CAD conversion is important for all of them.

The second largest group is craftsmen working on site like tilers, carpet layers, carpenters, painters. They are looking for precise floorplans, depending on the trade it can be a partial floorplan, but usually only on the iPad. Sometimes they might need a 2D CAD export, like countertop makers. Though precision is not always  necessary, for an electrical contractor or a plumber it is more important to mark the position of important devices, switches

Interior designers need also precise floorplans, maybe not millimeter but centimeter exact, as they need to know if they can fit furniture to given places. Sometimes they also need CAD output, but also furniture, equipment and appliances.

There are others, who need the floorplan for documentation. Real estate traders are typically in this group, they do not need a 100% precise floorplan, but need it with rich documentation. They do need to place furniture, and a simple PDF or picture output to send the customer.

A special application of OrthoGraph, where the site survey is needed for some calculations. This is the case for energy evaluators or energy auditors, where they need roughly the volume of the building and the rooms, the structure of the outer walls, and also the wall openings and their properties. CAD converters are also necessary here.

There are other rare examples we have met like forensics, exhibition stand designer or irrigation system designer. Their needs vary form raw overview plan to a precise one, but even they supplied us good ideas how to improve OrthoGraph Architect.

Do you have an idea? Contact us now!