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Hire a Surveying Kit

Professionally equipped while working in the field – complete boxed solutions, now you can Hire the award winning mobile surveying solution kit with the Sitemaster software for your measured building surveys. Save up to 70% of the time it takes to produce ‘As Built’ floor plans.

Save money by hiring a Sitemaster bundle.

Now you can hire the best Mobile Surveying Solution on the market. Recently made available by Mobile CAD Surveying, the Sitemaster Bundle is now available to hire.

Training for the above kit

For more information: Hire a Graebert Sitemaster Building Kit – Mobile Surveying Solution

A GRAEBERT SPECIAL -  FREE Sitemaster Building LT Licences!

Valid from 1^st December to 24^th December only – FREE LT Licences

Buy SiteMaster Building FULL version  and get one copy of SiteMaster Building LT for FREE (for a second machine) the cost of this should be £1,290.00net but they are offering it for only £995.00 for the period between 1/12/11 and 24/12/11 – so for every FULL Licence you buy, you get an LT Licence for FREE!

A Support Contract if required on the above would be £325.00 per licence set per year over three years. (Licence Set in this case means 1 x Full version, + 1 x LT version)

Remember we can also include this in our market leading Mobile Surveying Solution Bundle so why not take advantage now, buy one Sitemaster Building FULL Licence and get a Sitemaster Building LT Licence which can be used on any other machine for surveying or back at the office for editing for FREE

Training available on all software.
Training manual – FREE with each training day taken with us

For more information please reply to this email or call us on +44 (0) 844 567 2609

www.mobilecadsurveying.co.uk

Viliv X70 Holster

A brand new holster for the Viliv X70 tablet UMPC, allows the user to work hands free,  comes with two pairs of straps and full instructions of how to use it.

Access is possible to all ports, slots and buttons whilst the tablet pc is enclosed, saves taking the tablet out of the hoster to use it.

4no D Rings
Stylus holder
Lightweight
Robust
Access to all slots, buttons, ports and rear tri bracket
Rear webbing for attaching to other equipment

The Viliv X70 Holster is now available from the only UK supplier Mobile CAD Surveying

Sitemaster Building Videos & Tutorials

by The UK’s leading provider of Mobile Surveying Solutions

We have been asked many times for videos and tutorials on the Award winning Sitemaster Building software, so recently we decided to do something about it. We have now created the first eight tutorials and will add more as our customers request them.

To view the Tutorials and lots more FREE information on their Award winning Sitemaster Building software

Tutorial  1 -  Draw Basic rooms, insert doors, windows and chimney breasts

Tutorial 2 - How to insert windows with retainers

Tutorial 3 - How to insert doors with retainers

Tutorial 4 - How to use the staircase command

Tutorial 5 - Create and edit layers

Tutorial 6 - How to create a floating tool bar and edit the Tool Bar icon sizes

Tutorial 7 - Export Room and Symbol data

Tutorial 8 - Triangulation – how to use the triangulation features

Screenshots, Tutorials, Videos, Sample Drawings

Hire Sitemaster Building Kit

Professionally equipped while working in the field – complete boxed solutions

Save money by hiring a Sitemaster bundle.

Now you can hire the best Mobile Surveying Solution on the market. Recently made available by Mobile CAD Surveying, the Sitemaster Bundle is now available to hire.

For more information: Hire a Graebert Sitemaster Building Kit – Mobile Surveying Solution

Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) were introduced to help improve the energy efficiency of buildings.

Accredited energy assessors produce EPCs alongside an associated report which suggests improvements to make a building more energy efficient.

Now EPC Surveyors have a fantastic new tool at their disposal to help speed up the whole process.

SiteMaster EPC (BRAND NEW!)

Sitemaster EPC

Sitemaster EPC is a leap forward in the commercial EPC process, developed by the German software manufacturer Graeberts who are responsible for the unique and award winning Sitemaster Building mobile CAD surveying solution.

Sitemaster EPC software is a leap forward in the commercial EPC process, developed by the German software manufacturer Graeberts who are responsible for the unique and award winning Sitemaster Building mobile CAD surveying solution.

Sitemaster EPC must be considered by all non- domestic energy assessors who wish to stay competitive in their field.

Sitemaster EPC uses sitemaster as its framework in producing the floor plans required for an EPC, but then prompts the assessor to enter further details required for an EPC. Sitemaster EPC is fully integrated with IsBEM and automatically enters the data from the site plan to produce an EPC on site! (where a network connection is available)

Assessors use a tablet PC and a blue tooth enabled laser measure (supplied on purchase) to plot the building directly into the software. Minimal equipment helps ease of surveying with no need for paper and pencil, data is stored easily, can be adapted easily and forwarded on to be audited easily.

Sitemaster EPC not only reduces an assessor’s workload it also presents additional revenue streams from the same process, requiring little or no extra work. The highly accurate CAD plans produced whilst creating the EPC can be sold on to be used as:

•   Floor plans for sales purposes
•   Fire safety plans
•   Lease plans
•   Architectural plans (although higher degrees of accuracy will have to be obtained)

To see more of what Sitemaster EPC does and the benefits gained, click here

Mobile CAD Surveying was instrumental in the development of Sitemaster EPC, we can offer further details on the system, your further equipment specifications and the financial options available to obtain Sitemaster EPC. We also provide training to the use the system which is a must to gain optimal performance.

We know first hand the labour intensive process of producing a NDEPC and felt an easier approach was needed to make us more profitable, so we helped develop Sitemaster EPC.

If you have any questions or would like to talk further please email us

•   For more information on Workshop/Training dates and locations please contact us
•   To order SiteMaster EPC or arrange training please contact us

or visit: Mobile CAD Surveying

Sitemaster Building v5.0 Launched with additional features.

Last week Mobile CAD Surveying announced the release of Sitemaster Building v5.0 with additional features. Sitemaster is their award winning mobile surveying solution software from the well known Graebert stable.

For those already familiar with Sitemaster Building, you will be aware that producing the CAD drawings ‘on site’ in ‘real time’  is the future of surveying and Measured Building Surveying,  in fact, isn’t it amazing to think that just five or six years ago virtually all surveyors took pencil and pad, tape measure or possibly a laser measuring device out into the field and spent several hours measuring up sites, buildings and all related detail before returning to the office to redraw the detail into their CAD package.

Now we have, NO more return visits to site due to blunt pencils and inaccurate paper documentation, NO guesswork, NO wrong data documentation NO sagging tape measures

Additional features include:-

* Support of the Windows 7 operating system

* Support of the Leica Disto D8 and D3A BT laser distance meters

* New Room Depth option….When creating door openings, you can not only measure the lengths of the wall right-hand and left-hand to the opening in the next room but also in one operation the depth of the room. Thus, the shape of a rectangular room can be generated immediately in the drawing. This will vastly speed up production of lower tolerance drawings…EPC for instance.

* New Building Services Library….The Symbols area of the program now additionally provides a Library for Building Services which allows you to insert blocks for electrical power supplies, water supplies, and equipment such as boilers or extractors, into your floor plans.

* New Dimensioned Symbols command… the Symbols area lets you now add a dimension line with a Symbol on it. You can quickly add to your site measurement plans, measured from one end point of a wall in the classic SiteMaster style. This feature is intended to be used especially to collect building services information (for example for kitchen planning), but basically can be used with any other symbol of the built-in or customized symbol library.

* Door and Windows can now be placed into any wall. These can be openings which cover the entire length of a wall (in fact replacing the wall), or openings which have zero distance at one end of a wall.

* The WIDTH attribute of door and window openings with retainer always gets the smallest (clear) distance of the opening.

Why not download a FREE trial version now and see for yourself the future of mobile surveying solutions.

Mobile CAD Surveying Ltd the main and preferred Graebert dealer in the UK, supplying mobile surveying solutions Worldwide.

Coming soon! Sitemaster Building v6 – the next Generation of SiteMaster Optimized for Building Information Modelling (BIM)  Combines Mobile Deployment, 3D Building Measurement and Object Modelling into a Single Solution

Using the ARES Core Engine for AutoCAD Compatibility. To express an interest or to be kept up to date with developments use their contact form.

Sitemaster Building v5.0 Launched with additional features.

Last week Mobile CAD Surveying announced the release of Sitemaster Building v5.0 with additional features. Sitemaster is their award winning mobile surveying solution software from the well known Graebert stable.

For those already familiar with Sitemaster Building, you will be aware that producing the CAD drawings ‘on site’ in ‘real time’  is the future of surveying and Measured Building Surveying,  in fact, isn’t it amazing to think that just five or six years ago virtually all surveyors took pencil and pad, tape measure or possibly a laser measuring device out into the field and spent several hours measuring up sites, buildings and all related detail before returning to the office to redraw the detail into their CAD package.

Now we have, NO more return visits to site due to blunt pencils and inaccurate paper documentation, NO guesswork, NO wrong data documentation NO sagging tape measures

Additional features include:-

* Support of the Windows 7 operating system

* Support of the Leica Disto D8 and D3A BT laser distance meters

* New Room Depth option….When creating door openings, you can not only measure the lengths of the wall right-hand and left-hand to the opening in the next room but also in one operation the depth of the room. Thus, the shape of a rectangular room can be generated immediately in the drawing. This will vastly speed up production of lower tolerance drawings…EPC for instance.

* New Building Services Library….The Symbols area of the program now additionally provides a Library for Building Services which allows you to insert blocks for electrical power supplies, water supplies, and equipment such as boilers or extractors, into your floor plans.

* New Dimensioned Symbols command… the Symbols area lets you now add a dimension line with a Symbol on it. You can quickly add to your site measurement plans, measured from one end point of a wall in the classic SiteMaster style. This feature is intended to be used especially to collect building services information (for example for kitchen planning), but basically can be used with any other symbol of the built-in or customized symbol library.

* Door and Windows can now be placed into any wall. These can be openings which cover the entire length of a wall (in fact replacing the wall), or openings which have zero distance at one end of a wall.

* The WIDTH attribute of door and window openings with retainer always gets the smallest (clear) distance of the opening.

Why not download a FREE trial version now and see for yourself the future of mobile surveying solutions.

Mobile CAD Surveying Ltd the main and preferred Graebert dealer in the UK, supplying mobile surveying solutions Worldwide.

Coming soon! Sitemaster Building v6 – the next Generation of SiteMaster Optimized for Building Information Modelling (BIM)  Combines Mobile Deployment, 3D Building Measurement and Object Modelling into a Single Solution

Using the ARES Core Engine for AutoCAD Compatibility. To express an interest or to be kept up to date with developments use their contact form.

SiteMaster Elevation
Photographic Facade Survey

SiteMaster Elevation - surveying to precise exterior views
Save Time and Money – Now you can produce Elevational Drawings from Photographs

Photographic Facade Survey

SiteMaster Elevation is an independent add-on for SiteMaster. You can benefit from photogrammetric procedures by determining detailed measurements from freehand digital photographs or scanned images.

SiteMaster Elevation requires only one rectangle with two known side lengths for calibrating an image plan. The software lets you measure and draw a building in 2D with added height information on floors, openings etc.

It saves the exact measurement results by redrawing the image with points, lines, rectangles, polylines, arcs and circles. SiteMaster Elevation transfers drawing elements with state-of-the-art technology to your CAD system, e.g. or SiteMaster Building. After completing your measurements you can generate a report list of all measurements and areas. The results can be exported in excel lists.

Processing digital photographs of the building’s facade in SiteMaster Elevations allows you to enhance your project into a full 3D plan with precise exterior views. You can exchange drawing files between SiteMaster Elevation, SiteMaster (and other solutions) using the .FLX (PowerCAD) and .DXF file formats.

Download a FREE trial of Sitemaster Elevations software

Sitemaster Elevations screenshots

Sitemaster Building

Sitemaster Building software the Professionals choice – The mobile solution for Professional Building Surveys and Fast CAD Drawings carried out On Site in Real Time. Draw fast and accurate walls (as single or double line), windows, doors and symbols rectangular and circular columns, recesses, ,chimneys, ducts, room areas, volumes, perimeters and much more.

For professional building surveys

The extensive features of SiteMaster Building are especially interesting for users that need to create and deliver professional Fast CAD drawings.

The layer management supports the combination of several floor plans in one single file. Heights of rooms, openings and symbols can be recorded and exported. Lasered distances are recorded in the background and saved on an extra layer for proofing purposes.

Survey Methodology
Surveys are conducted using a hand-held Laser Measure (Leica Disto A6, Leica Disto D8, Leica Disto D3aBT or a Hilti PD38) coupled via ‘Bluetooth’ technology to a hand-held microcomputer a Viliv X70 tablet.

This approach, which produces the CAD drawing during the survey process, allows us to establish and accurately check all building dimensions while on site. Significant improvements in survey quality are gained using this equipment when compared with traditional survey methods.

Check measurements are taken to ensure accuracy Gone are the days where two men would hold a sagging tape measure from one end of the room to the other, that old method is history! There are NO more return visits to site due to blunt pencils and inaccurate paper documentation, NO guesswork, NO wrong data documentation NO sagging tape measures.

Click here to book a FREE demonstration

Download a FREE trial of Sitemaster Building

Sitemaster Building screenshots