Prior to using EagleView, initial planning site visits and design steps were done completely manually, and were far more time intensive.
“It would take as long as four to five staff hours from the point of the job coming in, to us having an AutoCAD that we could start placing panels on,” Danny explained.
To start off each project, Arcadia’s internal design department would need to find a Google Earth image of the house, and then create a basic 2D schematic wireframe of the roof in AutoCAD. This step alone could take as long as 30 minutes to complete.
Next, the site visit tech would need to travel to the property and measure all of the roof dimensions in order to make sure that the designers had a scaled and accurate model of the roof. That one site visit could take at least an hour for a simple roof, and as much as two and a half hours for a more complex roof.
Finally, it would take at least another hour for a design engineer to manually enter all the measurements and obstruction data into AutoCAD, get a final roof layout, and add panels into the design.