A perfect tool for real estate professionals to increase productivity

Do you know why OrthoGraph is an essential tool in the real estate business?
The answer is here in this blog post. OrthoGraph is more versatile than you have thought before. We would like to show you how can a real estate agent use OrthoGraph for make their work easier and increase their productivity.

First, it is important to have a precise and impressive looking floor plan about the building or apartment you want to sell. But we’re sure that no one wants to spend long hours with the surveying, it is better to spend the time with the clients. OrthoGraph has a natural, fast and easy way in which floor plans can be created: Just draw like with a pen on paper and the software automatically recognizes it and converts the lines into walls.

The measurement process is even faster, just use a laser distance meter and measure with a click. Your drawing will be automatically updated by the measured data and a room can be measured in a few minutes.

In case you have a furnished apartment for rent or to sell OrthoGraph can help you too.
Just choose from 15 different doors and 9 different windows and from 46 other objects that make your floor plan even more realistic.

A big advantage of OrthoGraph is that it creates a report automatically that contains information such as area, area of the walls with openings, perimeter, area of all openings regarding to a location and with sublocations as well, and it shows it for all locations.

Another very useful function for real estate professionals is the customizable PDF room book that can be emailed to the client or just printed. The room book contains all the important information and the small floor plan regarding each room.
Read more: http://orthograph.blogspot.hu/2014/03/multi-purpose-pdf-room-books-of.html

Last but not least, OrthoGraph is an outstanding presentation tool as well, its 3D view function allows you to walk around in the 3D realistic model of the floor plan and let’s you show the apartment to your clients from your office and you don’t need anything else just an iPad.



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!