The Lab · CAD wing

From drone flight to dimensioned drawing.

No tape measure touched this building. I flew a 10-minute orbit over a shed in Cumberland County, rebuilt it as a measurable 3D capture, and had algorithms pull the real dimensions out of nearly a million measured points — ground plane, wall alignment, eave, ridge, pitch. Then the lab drafted this.

LL-AB-001 — dimensioned as-built drawing of shed-01: plan view, gable elevation, and eave elevation drawn over the real drone point cloud, with a Likehart Labs title block — LL-AB-001 — the actual drawing. The blue haze behind the linework is the real point cloud from the drone capture, rendered to scale. Click to open the PDF.

12'-0" × 11'-11"footprint

7'-4"wall height

9'-6"ridge height

4.4 : 12roof pitch

143 sq ftmeasured area

How it works

Five steps. No guesswork.

Fly

A short drone orbit — ten minutes on site. For interiors, a phone walkthrough works too.

Rebuild

The footage becomes a gaussian splat — a photoreal 3D capture you can walk through in a browser.

Measure

Algorithms, not eyeballs: ground-plane fit, wall alignment, tree-canopy rejection. Every number traces to real points.

Model

A parametric CAD model — change the anchor dimension and every drawing regenerates in seconds.

Draft

A dimensioned as-built sheet plus a DXF that opens in AutoCAD, DraftSight, or any CAD app.

Drawing (PDF) DXF for CAD apps STEP model Walk the 3D capture ↗

What it's for

The buildings nobody has drawings for.

Garages, sheds, and pole barns before a renovation or addition
Insurance and storm-damage documentation with real dimensions
Listing sheets and floor references for realtors
Shop and storage layouts you can actually plan against

The honest fine print: this is an as-built reference drawing, calibrated to one confirmed field dimension and flagged measured-vs-estimated line by line. It is not survey grade — no boundaries, nothing stamped, not for construction. For legal surveys, you want a licensed surveyor; for everything else, you want this.

Have a building with no drawings?

One site visit, and you get the capture, the model, and the drawing — yours to keep, in formats your contractor, insurer, or architect already uses.

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