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Use a smart phone or tablet to get video of open walls, floors. This data, combined with orientation data, can then be processed to give an overlay of closed in structures. Video would have to be used because plan data might not be a built reality.
So no matter how you swing the tablet cam the bones
of the situation would be virtualized. No more sinking feeling as the screw or nail hits nothing. Of course, no good to the builder with that perfect memory.
This would work for past electrical, plumbing and data lines.
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Noggin_the_Nog
[not_morrison_rm, Mar 12 2012]
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My drywall and I need this app. |
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After reading the summary I couldn't wait to find out what a snog was and why I might want to hit one. |
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I know what a 'snog' is; had a bit of one with T.G.F.J.
before she went off to work this morning. As for a 'nog', I
just assumed it was a Britishism for 'stud' (the kind found
inside the wall). |
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hmmm, nuthin freudian goin on with that mistype there at all... |
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It seems that 'nog' is what New Zealanders call 'nogging'. ('Blocking' in America). |
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Not that 'blocking' is in any way an ambiguous term... |
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But surely this can only be applied to <shudders>
buildings constructed since the advent of electronic
cameras? |
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Shirley, this was made clear in the first line of the
description. It strikes [The Alterother] as obvious that mid-
construction images must be captured with the so-enabled
device (or another compatible device with the same app). |
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Yes, how does one "open" a six foot thick masonry wall, or a parquet floor? |
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//Not that 'blocking' is in any way an ambiguous term...// In the context of timber framing, it refers to the short pieces of wood (usually) at right angles to the long, main members; in that context, it's not ambiguous, much as the meaning of 'tack' is less ambiguous when the context is understood to be welding. |
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They're especially difficult to find, because their spacing is less predictable and they are usually not betrayed by fasteners. I assume that's why they're the focus of this idea. |
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// Yes, how does one "open" a ... wall ... or ... floor? // |
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see link if that helps with Nog, although it probably doesn't |
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Genius. There could be some CAD app that reads the architectural plans as well. Not that buildings ever deviate from the blueprints... nah, that never happens... |
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[+] this is so practical...I can't believe it's not used already!!
I mean they should take the photo *before* they put the walls up! |
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it really, really needs to be baked. |
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Definitely possible to do this after the fact with high
precision sonar (or, you know x-ray). The equipment
to do it would be fairly expensive, but I can picture
it as a service. Purchase of the app includes the
scanning. |
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