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“I climbed up every tree. iMapper was the best solution.”

After 16 years flipping houses, Jonathan compared iGuide, Matterport, the 3D Disto, and iPhone LiDAR before choosing iMapper. His team now uses its measured scans as the starting point for permit drawings and cabinet layouts in SketchUp.

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Jonathan WeathersJonathan WeathersHouse Flipper · True Quality Homes Inc · North Carolina · 16 years
Jonathan WeathersHouse Flipper · True Quality Homes Inc

What changed for Jonathan’s team?

These are Jonathan’s reported results on the small houses his team rehabs. They are his experience, not general performance promises.

In and out in half an hour

Jonathan reports 20 to 30 minutes on site for the small houses his team rehabs. Their previous tripod-laser process took 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

Before1.5 to 2.5 hr
Now20 to 30 min
An iMapper project in the platform: a house's scans assembled into one floor plan, each scan drawn in its own colour with its scan position marked

Clean assembly for his crew

With doors open and a line of sight into the next room, Jonathan says his connected scans assemble without errors.

A True Quality Homes team member running an iMapper scan on his own, tablet in hand, with the Racer 3+ on its tripod behind him

One walkthrough for his team

After one walkthrough in the app, Jonathan says team members can scan on their own while the office starts from the uploaded project data.

Figures reported by Jonathan for his own small, heavy-rehab houses.

What was the process before?

What we were finding is that our measurements were either inaccurate when we got back. We would go install cabinetry and those measurements could be off one, two, three inches, and we would obviously have issues.
The product workflow

From scanning the property to a usable drawing

Three steps from site measurement to the deliverable you need.

Scan the property, room by room

Set iMapper on its tripod and press once. It turns a full 360°, measures a slice of the space and photographs the room as it goes. Doors open, one or two scans per room, and the whole property is covered. Heights and sections come from the same scan taken vertically.

Each scan is one slice of the space. The slices are stitched together in the next step.

An iMapper on its tripod mid-scan in an empty room, with the surveyor stepping aside

Upload, and the platform stitches the slices

The Connect app uploads each scan to your account as you go. Add them to a project and the platform assembles the overlapping slices into one floor plan, with every scan’s photos beside it.

Scans that see into each other’s rooms assemble on their own.

The Connect app open on a phone on site, with the iMapper on its tripod behind it

Choose the deliverable you need

Draw the room areas in the platform, export the measured points as DXF and trace over them in your CAD tool, or let Autoplan generate the walls and edit them before export. DXF, IFC, STL, PDF and trade-specific formats are all supported.

The drawing is finished in the platform or in your usual CAD tool.

An export pulled apart into layers: the raw laser points at the bottom, the traced areas above them, and the finished CAD outline on top

Generate walls, then review the plan

Select the interior scans for one level and Autoplan generates the walls. Review the walls, doors, windows and thickness, then export.

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COLLADA (.dae) export

The 3D model opens in SketchUp as groups you can actually edit

Scan the space, stitch the scans, generate the floor plan, then export the 3D model straight to SketchUp. Openings and heights arrive measured, not approximated, so what you draw over is the real room. This is what Jonathan builds his permit plans and cabinet layouts on.

A room shell exported from iMapper and opened in SketchUp, with walls, openings and window reveals as solid geometry.dae, the COLLADA file format SketchUp opens natively

Windows at their real sill height. Each opening sits at the height you measured on site, not at a default.

Doors cut where they actually are. Position and size come from the scan, so the openings are real, not sketched.

Walls at their true height. The model arrives dimensionally correct rather than as a flat extrusion.

Editable groups, not one welded blob. Floor, walls, partitions and openings each arrive on their own layer.

Doors and windows as components. One definition per size, so changing one changes them all.

3D preview before you download. Check the model in the export dialog rather than after the import.

Is this the right workflow for you?

iMapper measures a room in 360-degree slices — horizontal for the plan, vertical for heights and sections — and you finish the drawing in 2D or 3D in your own tool. It is not a textured 3D scanner.

It may fit if:

You need a measured base for floor plans, sections, or elevations
You draw in SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit, Archicad, or another CAD tool
You want scans and reference photos together in a browser project
You need DXF points, editable floor-plan exports, or a shareable project link

It may not fit if:

You expect one scan to create a complete 3D building model
You need a navigable, textured 3D point cloud instead of horizontal and vertical slices
You expect iMapper to do the whole job: someone still runs the scan on site, then finishes the drawing, or orders it from iMapper Studio

Questions worth answering before a demo

What does one scan capture?
One scan is a measured 360-degree slice with reference photos. Horizontally, it records a floor-plan slice. With the tripod head at 90 degrees, it records a section or elevation slice. It is not a full 3D scan by itself.
How accurate is it?
The documented accuracy ladder is 1 mm in laboratory testing, 2 to 3 mm in typical real-world use, and up to 5 mm on difficult dark or glossy surfaces. Placement, a stable tripod, visibility of both wall faces at corners, and surface conditions still matter.
Does it work with SketchUp and other CAD tools?
Yes. Export the measured points as DXF and use them as a tracing layer in SketchUp, AutoCAD, and other drawing tools. The platform also supports floor-plan exports including IFC, STL, and PDF, plus trade-specific formats.
What happens if scans do not assemble automatically?
Automatic assembly needs shared visible zones between scans, which is why doors should be open and scans should overlap. If two rooms share no visible zone, use the reference photos to identify the scan, then move and rotate it into place manually.
What can the Connect app do?
It can pair with Racer 3+, start scans or laser preview, show the digital bubble level, choose density, preview part of the scan live, add annotations, and sync scan files to the account.
What if I do not want to draft the finished plan myself?
iMapper Studio is the separate drafting service for ordering a finished plan from your project data. The platform itself also offers automatic floor-plan generation, but generated walls and openings should be reviewed and edited before export.
What happens on the call?
A one-to-one walkthrough of the device, the platform, and how the workflow would apply to your projects. If iMapper is not a fit, the call should make that clear before you buy.

See the workflow on your own project.

Get a one-to-one walkthrough of the device, the platform, and the export path that matches your drawing process.

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Referred by Jonathan Weathers · True Quality Homes Inc, North Carolina

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