miniPLAN Pro

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Quick Overview

Please Note! ?MiniPlan Software is no longer being supported, please see our Sitemaster Software range for an alternative

Ideally suited for users measuring complex buildings to a degree of accuracy.
Can run on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer

The fully featured version of miniPLAN allows rapid creation of Building Floor plans, and automatically calculates floor areas, surface areas, and room volumes. The software comes fully setup with Doors, Windows, and other such standard features. Other features can be added in by the user, using the simple to edit control files, DXF blocks and icons. Profiles can be created for different types of jobs and projects, which can be loaded upon start-up.

miniPLAN Pro

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Ideally suited for users measuring complex buildings to a degree of accuracy. If you are planning out a new house or the server rooms for Poker dk then you will find that this is the ideal software in which to do so, given its ease of use and ability to plan out complex buildings in a straightforward and accessible manner.

Can run on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer

This product is Ideal for Surveyors, Architects, Commercial Energy Assessors, and other such users who need more detailed floor plans than a basic plan of walls, doors and windows.

miniPLAN is ideally suited to running on a Tablet computer such as the Viliv X70, laptop, or desktop PC. This full version of the software can also run on a PDA.

It's a valuable asset to anyone creating more detailed plans/areas, and is the
ideal companion to the NEW Leica Disto D3aBT

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Videos

This video shows how fast miniPLAN is in operation. The surveyor is using a Samsung Q1 UMPC and a Leica Disto A6 or the or the NEW Leica Disto D3aBT as shown in our ready configured Kit/Bundles

Tutorials

miniPLAN Pro

Tutorial	Description	Video
1	Create a new project a floor and an initial Room 6mins 30sec	View
2	Measuring complicated rooms 9mins 55sec	View
3	Create a new room using control lines 3mins 40sec	View
4	Matching properties, bracing, hinging and curves 5mins 28sec	View
5	Using control points and adding features 5mins 10sec	View
6	Using the array tool 3mins 05sec	View
7	Line features 4mins 45sec	View
8	Staircase tool, attributes and moving text around 4mins 20sec	View
9	Bay window tool 3mins 25sec	View
10	Exporting & Importing a drawing as Control 4mins 56sec	View
11	Bracing Complicated Rooms 2mins 16sec	View

miniPLAN Help Guide Tutorial

Software Comparison Chart

Software Feature	Description	miniPLAN	miniPLAN GO!
Unique ‘Sketch & Measure’ system	Sketch your room on the screen, you are prompted for all measurements, sketch resizes to correct dimension.	a	a
Easy to use – no CAD experience necessary	Logical system – same methods used as when using a Disto and sketch pad	a	a
Simple, easy to use interface	Minimum number of buttons and commands – easy and quick to learn.	a	a
Floor Plans of whole or part of a building	Link rooms together to build up floor plan of an entire building.	a	a
Software supplied fully set up and ready to use	miniPLAN is ready to use as soon as it is installed.	a	a
Use on Pocket PC devices	Runs on Windows based mobile phones and PDAs .	a	a
Use on UMPCs	UMPCs, such as the Samsung Q1, provide the ideal platform for miniPLAN.	a	a
Use on most laptops and PCs with Windows operating systems	A laptop with a Bluetooth dongle can be used on site, or miniPLAN can be used on a desktop PC to convert site sketches into CAD format.	a	a
Bluetooth Disto input	Measurements beamed instantly from your Disto into miniPLAN via a Bluetooth link.	a	a
Tape input	Manually enter distances from a tape or from a Disto without a Bluetooth link .	a	a
Templates for different building types	Set up templates with different room names, feature lists, symbols and line styles for each building type.	a
Draw orthogonal rooms	Quickly sketch and measure rooms with right angled corners.	a	a
Room misclosure calculation & adjustment	Any gross errors are highlighted once a room is measured and can be easily corrected .	a	a
Bracing for walls	Fix the shape of any room by measuring diagonals.	a	a
Wall Hinge tool	Measure angled in ortho mode then rotate into position.	a
Curved Wall tool	Simple tool to measure curved walls.	a
Match Wall Bearing tool	Match wall bearings to those of other walls in the building.	a	a
Automatic External Wall Generation	External walls created from wall thickness and corners trimmed automatically.	a	a
Zoom & Pan	Easy to use zoom and pan functions.	a	a
Undo and Redo	Move back or forward through your project.	a	a
Delete selected items	Remove unwanted items from the floor plan.	a	a
Clarify tool	Select an individual item close to other features or in a group.	a	a
Add Doors and Windows	Insert doors and windows into walls.	a	a
Staircase tool	Add staircases & set the size and number of risers.	a	a
Floor level tool	Calculate floor levels throughout a building.	a
Alter Window properties	Change frame sizes and depths, set internal and external sizes.	a
Measure tool	Measure distance between 2 points and add dimension arrows to drawing.	a
Chainage and Offset input	Fix the position point and line features by Chainage and Offset from nearest wall.	a	a
Bracing for point and line features	Fix the position point and line features from 2 fixed room corners.	a	a
Single point feature	Point features limited to 1 text and feature point.		a
Single Line feature	Lines features limited to 1 line.		a
100+ Point and Line features set up and ready to use	AutoCAD compatible lines and symbols ready for use.	a
Define and customise your own Point and Line features	Create new features, allocate them lines and symbols. New symbols can be created in any CAD program.	a
User defined ”Top Items”	Add most used commonly features to the plan with just one click.	a
Resize features by adding dimensions	Point and line features can be resized at any time using X Dim & Y Dim buttons.	a	a
Traffic Light error checking system	Quickly identify measured, partially measured or unmeasured items in the building.	a
Backup and Recovery	Secure backup and recovery system so ensure data safety.	a	a
Areas	Room and Wall Areas calculated as room is measured.	a	a
Room Volumes	Volumes calculated as room is measured.	a	a
Control point system to link rooms together	Add a control point to a door or window to fix the position of adjacent rooms.	a	a
Reference Points	Add Reference Points & attach Control Points to them if doors & windows are not present.	a	a
Control layer system to link rooms together	Use existing walls or an imported DXF to control the position of a new room.	a	a
Export Building Report to Excel	Building report containing details of all rooms, walls, features etc. present in the building.	a	a
Export Energy Assessor Report to Excel	Building data exported ready for input into SBEM software.	a	a
Export Feature Report to Excel	List all features surveyed in a building.	a	a
Import DXF drawing	Bring in existing CAD drawings to control the shape of he building and position rooms.	a	a
Export DXF	Export your finished floor plan straight into any CAD program.	a	a
Export image files	Export floor plans as BMP, JPG and other image files that can be viewed an editing in any graphics program.	a	a
Bay Window tool	Add a Bay Window to a wall with one click.	a
Array tool	Create an array or grid of features at set distances from each other.	a
Flip	Change direction of a line or wall, flips a door so it opens out of the current room.	a	a
Brace/Unbrace	Fixes or Unfixes a wall, or its ends, so it can be repositioned.	a	a
View mode	Navigate simply through the building. Select the floor or room to work on.	a	a
Zone mode	Group rooms into Zones. Define external walls.	a	a
Re-name Disto function	Change the identity of your Disto to an easily recognisable name.	a	a
User definable grid	Set drawing grid to reflect personal preferences .	a
Change Display Preferences	Choose what and how features etc. are displayed.	a
Compass feature to define direction of north	Set direction of north. Wall properties include the direction it’s facing based on the compass bearing.	a	a