Floorplans

The ‘Add Recess’ tool is available for rooms that have been closed/ended. It allows the measurement of complicated shaped rooms to be simplified although there will be instances when it is best to use a total station or measure with a DISTO and adjust or manually enter irregular angles, as the recess tool is specifically […]

Scenario: The ‘Add Recess’ tool allows the measurement of complicated shaped rooms to be simplified, it is specifically for symmetrical additions either into the room such as a chimney breast or column or out of the room such as a chamfered Victorian bay window. We are going to open up existing files of Soldridge Manor […]

This topic covers the Floorplans tools that have different or specific functionality for use with total stations including: Fillet Wall Tool Symbols Beams Spot Levels The lessons in this topic assume a total station is connected to Floorplans, a station setup has been conducted and rooms exist ready to add features to.For lessons on these […]

MBS Floor Plans software is setup to enable the establishment of internal control if required; for example to establish a new control point from existing control or previously measured detail and to orientate a total station to existing control to enable the internal measurement of a building. As such you can run a traverse and […]

Applies to Trimble® S Series instruments from the S5 and above. There are 5 stages to getting connected to a Trimble S series instrument: Lesson 2 – Stage 1: Obtaining and installing a Trimble SDK License for your Windows Mobile device. PLEASE NOTE; THE FIRST STAGE MAY TAKE A COUPLE OF DAYS. Lesson 2 – […]

This topic covers the most commonly used Total Station device connections in terms of how to connect the device to MBS Floorplans software. The Total Stations covered all use Bluetooth® communications with MBS Floorplans: Leica Viva TS16 (applies to all GeoCOM enabled instruments from the Leica TPS1200 series onwards). Trimble® S Series instruments from the […]

This topic covers the most commonly used Leica DISTO™ device connections in terms of how to connect the device to MBS Floorplans software and how the measured value is input to MBS Floorplans software in different measurement situations. The devices covered all use Bluetooth® communications with MBS Floorplans: Leica DISTO™ Bluetooth v4 Smart devices i.e. […]

The bearing of the irregular walls in the kitchen, conservatory and footprint needs computing: This can be done in one of four ways and there is at least one lesson for each. 1. Match bearing: Examples of when you would match the bearing of the irregular wall are when entering a: path between rooms so […]

First let’s define an irregular shaped room; it’s one where not all corners of the room are 90°, for example. You can start to minimize any errors, by carefully selecting your start point. When selecting the first wall in an irregular room, you should select the first straight wall and vertex after the angular wall […]