Installation drawings
Generated from the linked models: stations from one end to the other, fixing points, glue and wait times, and the time for each step.
→ one sheet per station
Survey the room. Fit your parts. Brief the crew.
Five commands. The SITE panel appears on any design that holds the room. It writes the crew's survey sheet, reads their measurements back, builds the site as found, fits your parts to it and draws the installation, step by step.
Columns lean, walls bow, openings taper. Most shops find out when the crew is holding the part against the wall. SITE brings the room into the record, so the difference is found in the shop, where it is cheap to fix. The original design is never edited, and every survey is kept as a dated revision.
1 · Installation survey
Know what to measure.
- The room is part of the model: walls with their type (drywall, block, concrete, cement board) and the base slab. The kitchen generator builds it for you.
- Signal turns the design into numbered measuring points: what to measure, where, at what height, and the design value.
- Tolerances come from the substrate, on a DIN 18202 / ACI 117 baseline or your own company standards.
2 · Crew registers measurements
Plain instructions for the crew.
- The crew gets a sheet, in their language, with one row per point and the words to record lean, bow and offset.
- Signal reads the filled sheet back by point ID, lists anything missing, and stores it as survey A, B, C.
- Every deviation is judged against the tolerance. The builder is judged only on what they were given, never on our own clearance.
3 · Fit our parts
Fix it before it ships.
- Signal builds the site as found: columns and walls rebuilt through the readings.
- Every piece is judged against the openings at its own heights (fits, shim, filler, or too long and by how much), then fitted in the as-found model: sides 2 mm clear, boxes and fronts resized, slides and hardware moved, doors and frames re-cut, and checked again.
- Out-of-tolerance work becomes a correction request with the data behind it, so you push back with numbers instead of complaints.
Drawn by Signal · from the Fusion model⤢ Inspect
Drawn by Signal · from the Fusion model⤢ Inspect
Drawn by Signal · from the Fusion model⤢ Inspect
Drawn by Signal · from the Fusion model⤢ Inspect
Drawn by Signal · from the Fusion model⤢ Inspect| Piece | Needs | Smallest opening | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drawer base 600 | 596.0 | 591.0 | Too long · 5.0 |
| Sink base 800 | 796.0 | 799.5 | Fits |
| Tall unit 600 | 596.0 | 603.0 | Shim · 3.5 per side |
| End panel | — | +22.0 | Filler |
Bar Tonala sheets drawn by Signal SITE, no hand drafting. The fit table shows example readings, distances in mm.
Crew pages on the phone
The install sequence in 3D, step by step, with tools and parts. A crew calculator shows how long the order takes with the people you have.
→ installer pages, crew time
Company Standards
Site clearances, front gaps, fillers, legs and substrate tolerances, on a researched baseline (DIN 18202, ACI 117). Keep Signal's numbers or save your own; surveys and fits are judged against them.
→ the tolerances every check uses
Signal Crew · on the iPhone
The survey, in the crew's pocket.
The office pushes the survey to the crew's phone and the crew follows it card by card, in the order it was drawn. No paper to carry, no photo or note to hunt for later: every reading, photo and scan comes back as one file into the job, and Signal reads it like the survey sheet.
Guided
One card per point
Each card shows the point on the plan and the elevation, the height to read it at, the design value and the tolerance, with a verdict as soon as the number goes in.
LiDAR, laser or tape
The method stays with the reading
LiDAR snaps to edges and corners and reads face to face. The laser stays the reference for tight tolerances, and every reading records how it was taken.
The room
Scanned, or drawn in 2D
Scan the room with LiDAR, or draw it in 2D with a tape. Walls carry their material and height; doors, windows, openings, stairs and columns are typed and placed, and the room opens in 3D and AR.
Never start over
Saved on every edit
A visit interrupted halfway picks up at the card it was on. The visit returns as one file, filed into the job, with photos, notes, readings and scans together.
⤢ InspectSignal Customer · a link, not a visit
The customer measures. You quote.
A new site with no drawings no longer needs a trip to quote it. Send the customer a link, or hand them the phone on the first visit: they scan each room, name it, give the ceiling height, say what each door and window is and take a photo of every wall. It arrives in the job as a customer scan, good enough to quote. When the quote is approved, the crew confirms it with the laser.
| The site | Who measures | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Drawings exist | The floor is pushed to the phone; the crew lasers only what our pieces touch | The architect's floor, verified where it matters |
| No drawings | The customer scans; the crew lasers once the quote is approved | Customer scan, ±50 mm, unverified, then as found |
| The crew scans | The crew decides: laser now, or after approval | As found, ±5 mm where lasered, ±20 mm elsewhere |
History
Nothing is overwritten. When the crew measures a site the customer scanned, the same floor becomes a new revision and the customer's version stays in its history. A customer scan sent later never replaces a floor the crew measured, so you always know who measured what, and how.
⤢ InspectSignal Crew and Signal Customer are one iPhone app, in pilot with our crews. Scanning needs an iPhone Pro with LiDAR; drawing the room in 2D works on any iPhone.