14. Before leaving a floor, enable the Coverage view (its slider is found in the upper left corner of
the screen when the map is maximized) to display floor coverage by panoramas and see if any
rooms were missed.
15. After you finish gathering data for a floor, go to the Floor tab, create a new floor and repeat
shooting steps for each level of the home. You can always return to an existing floor to add more
panoramas.
Getting Best Results From Auto Settings
It is recommended to use use Auto white balance and Auto Exposure. Together they produce best
results most of the time, except difficult situations where manual intervention may be required.
When using Auto Exposure, point the camera toward the largest brightest area in the room for the
first position.
Examine the resulting image once it has loaded and adjust HDR brackets if needed and re-shoot.
If Auto white balance and exposure did not produce desired results, you can always adjust
exposure and white balance manually and re-shoot.
Examine the image for any reflections of you in the mirrors or other people in the picture and
reshoot if needed.
If you need to re-shoot, move the green square shot selector in the top left of the screen to correct
shot position by tapping on it. Also examine the resulting laser data for any signs that the tripod or
rotator was misaligned or bumped. More details on misaligned data can be found in the Data
Quality section.
Important Shooting Notes
All floors must be measured and shown in panoramas in their entirety for the drafting team to be
able to draft them.
Partially mapped or photographed floors will not be drafted.
Refer to
iGUIDE Drafting Standard found on the
Support section for more information.
Some panoramas will need to be shot for drafting reference only. They can be selectively disabled in
the iGUIDE later if desired. It is possible to shoot only one fisheye image resulting in a partial
panorama if it is only needed for reference. In this case you can ignore the warning about
incomplete panorama when creating a new panorama after that. Partial panoramas will not be
viewable in iGUIDE. Most common usage for partial panoramas is for measuring depth of closets
where back wall is not measurable otherwise. Remember that every room should have at least one
full panorama, so that the drafting team can properly place doors, windows, and other objects.
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