Anyone complete a UAD 3.6 report ..... yet

[J Grant]

A sketch is ANSI-compliant if it is measured from the exterior walls, so I'm not clear how walking around the inside of a home with a LIDAR-based program generates an ANSI-compliant sketch?

The software sounds interesting - at some point, I might try it, too busy now doing real appraisals - companies that offer AI and methods of gathering data, picking comps, or generating adjustments are not the same thing as appraisal form software.- though there might be an intersection between the two.

 

[Non Sequitur]

I find that very hard to believe because the software would have to make too many "assumptions" that might not hold true for every house

It's close enough for GSE work.

The proof is in the pudding; Software providers aren't investing time and money into lidar apps if manual sketches are the future. GSEs shifted to ANSI because there was no standard, and with a release of a mortgage letter measurement standards can be changed to lidar based apps when the GSEs are ready. I have no doubt lidar scan to sketch software will be the standard soon after 3.6 launches full scale. ANSI is so last century and the GSE are modernizing.

 

[J Grant]

It's close enough for GSE work.

The proof is in the pudding; Software providers aren't investing time and money into lidar apps if manual sketches are the future. GSEs shifted to ANSI because there was no standard, and with a release of a mortgage letter measurement standards can be changed to lidar based apps when the GSEs are ready. I have no doubt lidar scan to sketch software will be the standard soon after 3.6 launches full scale. ANSI is so last century and the GSE are modernizing.

You present your personal assumptions as fact (that lidar sketches will be the standard in appraisals ) if and when the GSE;s announce it I will use an app for it. Sketch apps using lidar are already available to the public; the appraisal software companies are investing zilch in it.

 

[Sadie]

It's close enough for GSE work.

The proof is in the pudding; Software providers aren't investing time and money into lidar apps if manual sketches are the future. GSEs shifted to ANSI because there was no standard, and with a release of a mortgage letter measurement standards can be changed to lidar based apps when the GSEs are ready. I have no doubt lidar scan to sketch software will be the standard soon after 3.6 launches full scale. ANSI is so last century and the GSE are modernizing.

I have seen too many errors in those sketches, floor plans, what ever you want to call them to trust them.

 

[Non Sequitur]

You present your personal assumptions as fact (that lidar sketches will be the standard in appraisals ) if and when the GSE;s announce it I will use an app for it. Sketch apps using lidar are already available to the public; the appraisal software companies are investing zilch in it.

Yeah, apps are free. That must be why none of the software providers have had any until now.

 

[glenn walker]

You present your personal assumptions as fact (that lidar sketches will be the standard in appraisals ) if and when the GSE;s announce it I will use an app for it. Sketch apps using lidar are already available to the public; the appraisal software companies are investing zilch in it.

How do you know that ?

 

[Non Sequitur]

I have seen too many errors in those sketches, floor plans, what ever you want to call them to trust them.

I agree but the GSEs are pivoting toward scan to sketch. More than a few people with NDAs just nod when I've asked the question. The standard will be a CubiCasa type floor plan sooner than later. And honestly, why not?

 

[Sadie]

I agree but the GSEs are pivoting toward scan to sketch. More than a few people with NDAs just nod when I've asked the question. The standard will be a CubiCasa type floor plan sooner than later. And honestly, why not?

because its not good to be sloppy? Garbage in garbage out? Slippery slope to no need for humans?

 

[Non Sequitur]

because its not good to be sloppy? Garbage in garbage out? Slippery slope to no need for humans?

I agree about the slippery slope, but it is good enough for government work. The pivot has more to do with digitizing everything in the pipeline and data collection more than sticking to a standard that was only adopted because there was none. And there's another layer, no one is wining and dining them to keep ANSI, the money being spent is on the fancy software.

 

[J Grant]

I agree about the slippery slope, but it is good enough for government work. The pivot has more to do with digitizing everything in the pipeline and data collection more than sticking to a standard that was only adopted because there was none. And there's another layer, no one is wining and dining them to keep ANSI, the money being spent is on the fancy software.

ANSI is a recognized building standard that has been around for decades. It provides a way of breaking out above-grade and below-grade, enclosed areas, heated vs. non-heated, etc.

Using lidar / an app to create a floor plan or sketch is not a measuring standard; it is simply a tool . Like any tool, it depends on the person using it - the sketches do look pretty!