Mobile Total Sketch

[Double Eagle]

I am starting to use this for drawing my sketches. I use an ipad mini. I was using the apex app which works great, but it is an additional cost and I have to go through an import process. Both of which I would rather not do if I can use Mobile Total Sketch. But I am finding that when I draw the dwelling and then try to draw a porch, it has problems. Apex allows you to draw any area at any time at any place. I find with total sketch, the porch becomes part of the dwelling area. I have called alamode and they told me you basically have to draw the porch separately and then move it up against the house. I can live with that, put it is an additional step I would prefer to avoid. I was wondering how others handle this and if there was a better way of drawing the porch.

 

[tboehrer]

I am starting to use this for drawing my sketches. I use an ipad mini. I was using the apex app which works great, but it is an additional cost and I have to go through an import process. Both of which I would rather not do if I can use Mobile Total Sketch. But I am finding that when I draw the dwelling and then try to draw a porch, it has problems. Apex allows you to draw any area at any time at any place. I find with total sketch, the porch becomes part of the dwelling area. I have called alamode and they told me you basically have to draw the porch separately and then move it up against the house. I can live with that, put it is an additional step I would prefer to avoid. I was wondering how others handle this and if there was a better way of drawing the porch.

You don't have to draw the porch like that. You simply draw the porch as an attached area. It will automatically default to a porch, and is not part of the dwelling area. To demonstrate, after drawing the porch, you can drag that area away from the main area, and they are in fact separate. You can do the the same thing with garages, in which case the garage is "cut out" from the main area, and the main areas SF is adjusted accordingly.

I hope this helps.

Tracy Boehrer
Mobile Product Manager
a la mode, inc.

 

[Double Eagle]

I know it works with a garage, but doesn't work with the way I draw the porch. However, I think if I draw the porch in the same manner I would draw the garage, it would work. That is make the porch the outline of the house and then close it off by drawing the lines of the house. Yes, that works. Thank you for the help.

-Mark

 

[tboehrer]

Most of the time, you don't have to outline the house. Though I have seen some complex layouts where you'd have to manually draw the lines. In many cases, you'd draw at most 3 lines (sometimes just 1 or 2) to complete the porch, and the sketcher will automatically trace the main area lines to auto-close the attached area.

Tracy Boehrer
Mobile Product Manager
a la mode, inc.

 

[Deleted member 128537]

I just attach porches to the house and don't have to draw separately then attach to house. I will say that sometimes it doesn't work well. But 90% of the time no problem.

 

[Vermonter]

Whenever 2 or more sides of a porch/deck/garage connect to the structure it will autoclose. I have had the issue in modify mode where sometimes I can get the porch/deck/garage to move independently of the main structure and sometimes not. Not sure what I'm doing wrong there.

 

[Deleted member 128537]

If there is one thing I wish the Total Mobile Sketcher could do is have the ability to draw like the Apex sketcher. I like the idea of being able to draw different segments at the same time. That would save lots of time in the field. I wouldn't have to draw the first floor and then go back around the house and draw porches etc. Just a thought alamode.

 

[Tom Woolford]

[QUOTE="homesweethome, post: 2580388, member: 128537" I wouldn't have to draw the first floor and then go back around the house and draw porches etc. [/QUOTE] I just sketch the perimeter, including porches and garage etc, and then cut them out of the whole. Usually doesn't even require retracing steps around the house.

 

[Deleted member 128537]

[QUOTE="homesweethome, post: 2580388, member: 128537" I wouldn't have to draw the first floor and then go back around the house and draw porches etc.

I just sketch the perimeter, including porches and garage etc, and then cut them out of the whole. Usually doesn't even require retracing steps around the house.[/QUOTE]

And I have thought about doing that. How does that work with houses with lots of angles?