Released on: August 4, 2008, 5:13 am

Press Release Author: OrthoGraph Ltd.

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: OrthoGraph unveiled a new software that enables users to
create floor plan surveys on site using a windows mobile personal data assistant
(PDA). It facilitatates instant digital floor plan sketching and creation of AutoCAD
compatible drawings on-site

Press Release Body: The goal of the new product developed by the company OrthoGraph
is the highest achievable support of floor-plan (graphical) surveying of facilities.
Using this software the measurements are produced in electronic format right on the
spot, while using all possible data-entry equipments and providing automatic control
on the values. The system is able to manage large data amounts rapidly, to connect
with databases, supports teamwork and - for making the data acquisition easier - can
handle laser distance meters or barcode readers (e.g. for inventory purposes).

After specifying the structure of rooms each room (or logical zone) can have its own
drawing. This drawing is uniquely created first by sketching in the particular room
into the PDA, and after that measuring the distances in order to have the proper
floor-plan entered. To keep the sketching process as easy as it is possible the
system provides numerous tools like "ghost layer" function that allows the user to
show and snap to already sketched or measured zones. Ghost layers are displayed in
gray to help the user distinguish them from the room that are about to be drawn. In
many cases it may be enough to have the particular rooms sketched and partly
measured (that is supported by the "fast measure" function), but in some cases it is
required to have them exactly surveyed. Using the automatic measurement
functionality the OrthoGraph Survey software warn for each missing measurement one
by one, and controls to do all necessary measurements on-site.

For entering distances on-screen or external keyboard can be used, but the best and
fastest way is to use a laser distance meter. The model Leica Disto A6 is such a
measurement device, which is supported by default, and using the bluetooth
connection it transfers the measured distances with one single click. In case of
automatic measurement there is an additional feature of this device which means
besides the measured distances the Leica device can step back and forth between the
measurement steps, so that it controls the whole measurement and the PDA can be used
only as a display.

Besides the graphical DWG export format numerous other formats are supported, such
as .xls, pdf, .txt, .xml. Using these formats most of the required listings and
further processing tasks can be done easily. The integration to other existing
systems is also very easy either using these standard file formats or by creating a
custom native interface add-on. Such a connection is already available to some CAFM
systems like ArchiFM as an example.

Web Site: http://www.orthograph.net/ortho-eng_product.php

Contact Details: Address: Graphisoft Park, Budapest
Hungary (Rep)

Phone Number: +36 1 437 3540
Email: orthograph.support@gmail.com