Make a video from a plan

TerraModel reads the walls, piers, cracks and scale from an ArcSite plan PDF. You check what it read before anything is built.

Steps

1. Pick the Foundation type on the right: Slab, Crawl space, Basement or Yard drainage. You can pick Slab and Crawl space together for a house that's part of each.
2. Click Upload PDF in the top bar (or Upload an ArcSite plan PDF under Plan import) and choose the plan.
3. The Review plan window opens with the plan and what was read on top of it.
4. Check the Project name.
5. If the scale looks wrong, type the house's Overall depth (top to bottom of the house), for example 59' 1", and click Set scale.
6. Fix anything that's off with the tools:
   • Add pier: click an outside wall to add a pier. Piers renumber automatically.
   • Add crack: click an outside wall to add a crack.
   • Remove: click a pier, crack or other item to take it off.
   • Look: just look, without changing anything.
7. Tick I checked the walls, piers, beams and cracks against the plan.
8. Click Approve and build video. The preview rebuilds with your house.

Click Choose another PDF if you picked the wrong file, or Cancel to leave the project as it was.

Extra tools by foundation type

• Crawl space: Add interior pier (click a beam), and New pier spacing (ft) and Existing support spacing (ft) with Place along beams.
• Basement: Bowing wall (click an outside wall to mark it bowing).
• Yard drainage: French drain, Channel drain, Drain line, Catch basin, Pop-up and Downspout.
• Part slab, part crawl space: Slab area (drag a box over the slab part, such as a garage).

Related questions

What if TerraModel can't find the scale?

Type the overall depth from the plan's dimension line and click Set scale. Enter it like 59' 1".