OrthoGraph Survey 1.1.4
BUILDING SURVEY SUPPORTED BY PDA ON THE SPOT.
OrthoGraph Survey is a professional solution for building surveys (i.e. floor plan, elevation and cross-section surveys). The software is built for appraisers, insurance inspectors, architects, real-estate agencies, CAFM companies, flooring installers and anyone who needs digitized drawings or to calculate the area and perimeter of a floor plan even on-site.
OrthoGraph Survey supports floor plan sketching and measurement using a PDA or Windows Mobile Phone. The module shows measured drawings in real time and facilitates the creation of AutoCAD/ArchiCAD/Google SketchUp compatible drawings on site. Measured rooms or graphical parts are ordered into a structural view so that users obtain a clear overview of what they are measuring. Floating islands or ghost layers help users attach rooms to one another and display only the focused information that is relevant to the task at hand. Features also include support for Leica Disto A6 and D8, which can control automatic measurement tasks via Bluetooth. Default output formats are 2D and 3D DWG, SKP and PDF, but other formats are also supported. The survey software can be customized through a desktop-based ProjectManager component.
Product features:
* PDA application
* Handling spaces in a hierarchic structure
* Preparing sketches of ground-plans right on the site
* Automated graphic assessment
* Fast graphic assessment
* Showing the measured drawing as you work on the spot
* Connecting places - "Floating Islands" function
* Handling "Ghost Layers" - display of drawn areas in the background
* Team-work for supporting large projects
* Handling objects and ground-plan symbols
* Support of the Leica Disto A6 and D8 laser distance meter
* Easy customization through the desktop ProjectManager component
* Full-scale inventory function of the OrthoGraph Inventory module
* PDF Reports
OrthoGraph Survey provides with its speed and easiness the best support for creating floor plans and area calculation on-site.
New versions have just been released from the OrthoGraph™ graphical products. The company OrthoGraph, listening to the user requests focused its development to extending the on-site capabilities of the graphical products, and to the compatibility with popular CAD systems.
The new OrthoGraph Survey and Architect versions are now capable of creating a report of measured areas, perimeters, and wall, door and window surfaces on-site. The report can be run on one particular room, on a selection of rooms or on a whole story. The results can be extremely useful for calculating e.g. offers for paintings, flooring installations, door/window replacement costs even on the spot.
Leica has released its new Disto™ D8 model that has many new functionality (e.g. ± 1 mm/ ± 0.04 in accuracy, digital camera based pointfinder) for on-site building surveys. The OrthoGraph 1.1 version works with the new Leica laser distance meter keeping the support of the Leica Disto™ A6 model as well.
The output of OrthoGraph graphical versions were extended with many new popular formats (besides the existing DWG format):
- Google SketchUp native SKP file output,
- ArchiCAD native import file Add-On,
- JPG/GIF/PNG/BMP and other bitmap formats.
The new Google SkechUp format creates 3D wall surfaces with windows and doors within them. Each surface can be selected by itself which allows users to easily measure areas or change floor/wall finishes. These drawings can be good basis of interior design works or for real estate agencies showing more than just a floor plan.
The ArchiCAD integration is built up as an import Add-On of ArchiCAD capable of loading OrthoGraph SRV files. The Add-On allows the user to prepare a specific matching setup for OrthoGraph object representation. When a particular ArchiCAD object matched with an OrthoGraph Object has a parameter named similarly in both systems, then the measured data is transferred into the ArchiCAD BIM model. This way the ArchiCAD integration is not just about the floor-plan, but it generates a real BIM model with doors/windows and parameterized objects as well.
Another new feature is the raster image JPG/PNG/GIF/BMP output of OrthoGraph. These formats are required by on-line real-estate agent websites. This way our users can get the on-site measured floor plan with just one click into a format that can be easily uploaded onto any kind of property websites.
The OrthoGraph 1.1 version can be tried out even on Windows XP/Vista by downloading our PDA Emulator preinstalled version from our website. This way OrthoGraph can be tried out even without having a PDA/Windows Mobile Phone.
Besides the many new features of OrthoGraph™ 1.1. the professional Survey version is available with a discount till September 2009, on a price lower than the half of its original price. Now the software together with a Windows Mobile device costs less than OrthoGraph on its normal price.
What is new in 1.1.4 software version? - - Google SketchUp SKP output,
- Native ArchiCAD import Add-On,
- JPG, PNG, GIF and other bitmap output formats are supported,
- on-site reporting function added,
- Leica Disto D8 laser distance meter supported,
- No need for a PDA to try OrthoGraph anymore,
- Large discount till end of August.. What is expected in the future? Newly-made OrthoGraph Survey 1.2 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 1.3 release build. You may download OrthoGraph_Survey_INT_DEMO.msi directly, estimated download time by ADSL2+ [~24.5 Mbit/s] is 0:00:08. Just write the reviews of the OrthoGraph Survey. System requirements are PDA/Windows Mobile Phone, Desktop PC. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and OrthoGraph Survey found to be clean. The following languages are supported by OrthoGraph Survey: English, German, Hungarian.
