CubiCasa

CubiCasa is a mobile app that produces detailed floor plans from a simple five-minute smartphone scan of a home and is available for free use to REcolorado subscribers. The app requires no training and no extra equipment; it will work with almost any smartphone or tablet.

REcolorado forms partnerships with innovative companies in the real estate space that provide added value to you, our subscribers. Homebuyers are looking for listing content that will support their purchasing decisions including floor plans. Our partnership with CubiCasa gives our subscribers the opportunity to elevate their listings with professional floor plans.

The average accuracy has been tested to be 95-97%. LiDAR devices are usually more precise, always within 3%. Note that CubiCasa is constantly changing its algorithms to improve accuracy.

Resource: https://help.cubi.casa/en/articles/6662584-how-accurate-are-your-plans

Scanning the home takes 5-10 minutes, depending on the size of the home. You’ll receive your professional floor plan within 24 hours. Need a quicker turnaround time? Get 6-hour delivery for only $15.

1. Make sure you scan the whole property in one scan (including all floors and any detached garage/porch).
2. Start scanning on the lowest floor and work your way upwards. We recommend you start from the entrance, but do whatever works best for the building you are scanning. Scan one floor completely before moving to the next. Do not go back and forth between floors during the scan.
3. Hold the camera steady with both hands and walk at a normal walking pace.
4. Keep the device at chest height, and tilt it slightly downwards.
5. Avoid rapid movement. Hold the camera steady with both hands and walk at a normal and calm walking pace.
6. Always point the camera in the walking direction. No need to show more than 3 feet (1 meter) of the wall.
7. Walk forward (not sideways).
8. Scan no closer than 5 feet (1.5 meters) and no farther than 11 feet (3 meters) from objects. This is the optimal range for data collection.
9. Do not open doors during the scan, however, if you must open doors while scanning, please, point the camera of the device away from the door while you open it.
10. Avoid covering the lens.
11. Scan small spaces through the door opening without entering the space.
12. In small rooms, back out to avoid turning around.
13. If there are fixed furniture or windows, stop, pan up to show the furniture or the bottom of the window, then pan down. Make sure you are stationary when you do this.
14. You should only scan ceilings that are less than 7 feet.
    • Scan the ceiling at a slight upwards angle, so that the ceiling and other context is visible in the frame.
    • Do not scan directly under the ceiling you are capturing.
    • Do not scan the ceilings for over 5 seconds.

Yes! CubiCasa’s technology can handle complicated floor plans that would be time-consuming and difficult to draw by hand successfully including large homes and even curved walls.

Resource: https://www.cubi.casa/floor-plans-for-all-applications/

Yes! When scanning the interior of the property, feel free to go out into the exterior to capture any important features, keeping it all on one scan. CubiCasas process will ensure the end result mirrors the exterior reality.

Resource: https://www.cubi.casa/floor-plans-for-all-applications/

CubiCasa works on almost any mobile phone or tablet you can imagine, so long as it runs on the Apple or Android platforms. Your device doesn’t need any kind of special hardware or LiDAR functionality to work effectively, because they’ve built a computer vision-based system to calculate measurements and derive property shapes.

You can find the latest detailed list of which devices CubiCasa supports here: https://help.cubi.casa/en/articles/6661525-list-of-supported-hardware

Yes! CubiCasa has full customization tooling available within your Order Dashboard on their website. You can edit the colors font types and sizes of any floorplan, as well as upload your own logo or contact information into the output as well to create unique marketing collateral for use with your clients.

If you are still at the property and the initial scan is still being captured, you can simply go back to the room and capture it. If you are still at the property and have ended the scan, you can reopen the scan and add to it. If you have left the property, reach out to CubiCasa for assistance.

The best place to upload your floor plan is to listing photos. Listing photos are included in data feeds like IDX and syndication which means the floor plan will display on home search portals. If your seller prefers to have more privacy, you can also upload floor plans to the listing supplements which are seen only broker to broker within Matrix.

IIn accordance with CubiCasa’s Terms of Service, floor plans can be used and distributed for your general business purposes. This can include activities such as:

• Include it as an image on your real estate listing
• Upload it to your local Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
• Include it within an appraisal report you complete
• Include it within a home inspection report you complete
• Use it to generate an alternate floor plan for interior design purposes

CubiCasa requires you to ensure the use of the service in accordance with applicable laws and our Terms of Service.