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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by etrautmann on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:06PM (#34841250)
isn't that all of the more reason to use a high-resolution 3d LIDAR point cloud - to get the exactly geometry? I hear your point about moving furniture, but you kind of need to do that anyway to get a measuring tape into corners.
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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by mjhagen on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:29PM (#34841495)
Couldn't ML be utilised to recognise furniture and remove it from the model?
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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by frosted-flakes on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:08AM (#34844100)
Laser measuring tools avoid the need for a physical tape these days.
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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by necovek on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:20AM (#34847118)
Mostly!

But then you need to measure "free standing" wall (when measuring the opening is not an option), and without someone to hold something flat at the other end for the laser to bounce off, measuring tape still wins.

Which is not to say that laser is not extremely useful: I generally use both.

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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by necovek on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:29AM (#34847171)
Measuring tape is pretty thin and can get behind or just under a bunch of things: or a laser can when tape can't.

Basically, my point is that we'll need all three, and workflow won't be trivial to combine them.

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