Professional floor plan scanning that works in every room. If your work requires floor plans every day and you aren't using RoomScan Brick Mode, then you are literally wasting time.
Includes Apple RoomPlan, as well as the fast & accurate RoomScan Brick Mode for LiDAR devices, and Touch Mode which works in dim light on any device. Also compatible with a range of Bosch and Leica Bluetooth laser measures.
Exports to PNG, PDF, DXF (for CAD), IFC (great in Autodesk® and SketchUp®), FML (for Symbility® etc), Xactimate® ESX, Sweet Home 3D, OBJ, PLY, XYZ, RapidSketch, Metropix® and more.
• Automatically measures ceiling height and calculates wall areas and heat loss parameters, great for contractors.
• Take photos and type or dictate notes onto them, and see them automatically positioned on the plan. Perfect for surveys, inventories, etc.
• Annotate your plans with Apple Pencil.
• Also scans building exteriors (great for getting GLA for appraisers) and plots.
Questions or comments? We're here to help: service@locometric.com
US Patents 8,868,375 (2014) and 11,269,060 (2022).
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This is one of three similar tools I use to build floor plans on the fly with the camera and LIDAR features on my iPhone. The other two are MagicPlan and Canvas. MagicPlan is better at editing drawings after a scan is done. Canvas allows you to upload a scan of one or more rooms and have a human assist with very high quality PDF, 2D drawing, 3D drawings and BIM (REVIT) files. The quality of the results with RoomScan LIDAR is lower BUT I use it the most. And that is because on some sites, like I am on this week, there are lots of construction materials, boxed appliances and other things that make it impossible to see the floor/wall connection. RoomScan still works fine, as long as you can see any part of a wall ... the other two, not so good. Also RoomScan makes it possible to make a 'good enough' floor plan with doors, windows and some auto symbol recognition very quickly. I was able to complete and forward a drawing set for two floors with wall and area measurements in PDF and Autocad to an HVAC engineer in about 20 minutes.
Developer Response
Thanks for this great review back in November, we just received it today. Fast floor plans in any room is what RoomScan is all about. If you have time to jot down a few wishlist items for improving the quality, please do email us at service@locometric.com and we'll get them addressed.
Great for insurance adjusters
jcmkhh
Update- despite Cotality introducing their own scan within the app, this is still superior. I’ve had the Cotality app fail, in some cases completely disappearing after completing a level. This app does not do that. Prior review- This app fills a hole for Symbility users. This has worked for me nearly 100% of the time. With a little practice, you can determine which method works best for you. Using the brick mode is very similar to using the Xactimate AR mode. The measurements are accurate and import directly into Symbility and Xactimate. The developers are amazing and responsive. They have added features as requested, like being able to take photos with a room that are exportable in a zip file. The photos are labeled by the room name so you don’t lose track of them. It even has an exterior mode, so you can do a footprint of the house and use that to accurately draw the roof. The only issue seems to be that when imported into Symbility the window heights are not accurate, but the developers are working on that right now. I highly recommend this for anyone who needs to scan a room for accurate measurements and wants to use their mobile device. You can leave the clipboard at home.UPDATE: this app is constantly improving. The developers are clearly listening closely to feedback from end users and working hard to create an effective and reliable product. After installing from a backup on my iPad the app crashed repeatedly, I had to remove the app, shut off and turn on my iPad and reinstall it and then it works just fine. I feel that this was a glitch from the back up, not from the app.
Developer Response
Thanks for the extensive review, much appreciated. I hope you like the improvements to Brick Mode in v11.15 released this week. If you're still having trouble with window heights in Symbility please do get in touch (via the support chat in the in the app is best). Cheers, Locometric Support.
Great app, does have crash issues though
TheSher
First off this app does an amazing job of building floor plans. Super intuitive and the 10 step guide was really helpful. The biggest issues I ran into were the crashes that occurred while trying to complete a scan and losing everything. The crashes seem related to running out of memory, so I recommend force closing all apps and restarting the phone as that worked for me. It would be nice if this tip was included in the app, but even better if the app could save a partial scan so that I don’t have to start from scratch after a crash. For example all of my crashes occurred after completing the wall scan and adding doors, openings and windows. If the initial scan was saved it would have been much easier to recover.
Developer Response
Hi TheSher, thanks for the really helpful review which we just received today. I wonder if you might have 3D Quality set to high in RoomScan settings? That can sometimes cause behaviour like you describe on the 12 Pro. If you’re still having trouble please tap (?) -> Get Assistance within the app and we’ll get it sorted.
Disappointing crashes, misses, & usability
ZaphodBoy
If you want to scan one square room and get the dimensions, this app will do great. Use the Apple RoomPlan scanning (kudos to the dev for leveraging it so quickly) and away you go! If you have more than one room, budget some time and get ready for a frustrating experience. The app would identify and show scanned nooks, outdents, doors, openings, etc while scanning but the finished scan would loose much of this. I played the lottery by scanning rooms several times to try to land on a version that got most items. You can add doors afterwards, but then you’re back to measuring with tape…what’s the point of the app then? If the room is has too many transitions, surprise!! —the app crashes (iPad Pro 2021). The other big weakness was joining rooms. It would routinely join rooms in distorted locations, and once it’s joined it’s not possible (or at a minimum highly unintuitive to move them). I cancelled my trial and deleted the app. Hopefully something more stable and intuitive is on the market soon.
Developer Response
Hi there, for anything beyond a basic room shape and for reliability when scanning lots of rooms, please select “RoomScan LiDAR” mode and not “Apple RoomPlan” mode on the menu that appears every time you start a new room. Thousands of professionals use RoomScan for multi-room floor plans, using RoomScan LiDAR mode for most rooms (80%) with the benefit of being able to cherry-pick RoomPlan and manual drawing where appropriate.
- Brick Mode is now faster and more accurate, especially if you touch the same wall multiple times
- All Bosch Bluetooth laser measures should now work with RoomScan Pro LiDAR. Let us know how you get on!
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