Blueprints

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The Blueprints App helps you keep track of measurements you have taken graphically, overlaid on pictures of what you’re actually measuring!

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Next time you go to a home improvement store, or furniture store, you’ll know exactly the size of your cabinets, windows, or whatever you’d wanna measure. It will be much easier to explain what you are trying to do to anybody in the store, with a real picture! You can also carry the measurements of your car’s trunk, and know if something will fit before your purchase.

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Usage

The Blueprints App is very intuitive, and was designed according to the iPhoneTM‘s User Interface guidelines. The App starts in the Blueprints screen. There you can add a blueprint. Each blueprint contains a number of pictures of what you’re measuring. Tapping a picture in the pictures screen, shows the measurements screen. In the measurements screen you can add, delete, edit, and move measurements, as well as panning and zooming the picture.

Blueprints screen

  • Tap the + button to add a “blueprint”.
  • Tap the Edit button to delete entries, or swipe a finger across an entry.
  • Tap an entry to add pictures.
  • Tap the blue chevron on the right of an entry to edit its name and/or location.

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Pictures screen

Each “blueprint” can contain a number of pictures.

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  • Tap the + button to add a picture to a “blueprint”.
  • Tap a picture to edit the measurements on the picture.
  • Tap the trash can to enter/leave delete pictures mode.
  • Tap the X on the top-left corner of a picture to remove it and all its measurements (delete pictures mode only).

Measurements screen

Each picture can have a number of measurements

editing measurement

  • Tap the + button to add a measurements to the picture.
  • Drag any end of the measurement to change its location.
  • Drag the measurement bar to move it.
  • Tap the label on the measurement to edit it.
  • When editing, change the unit by tapping on the units bar.
  • Pinch to zoom in/out.
  • Drag the picture to pan.
  • Tap the trash can to enter/leave delete measurements mode.
  • Tap the X in the middle of the measurement bar to delete it (delete measurement mode only).

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For known issues and upcoming features, please go here.

For support, please write to blueprints at igorsales dot ca


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7 responses to this post.

  1. Hey Igor,

    Too bad I only have an iPod Touch (no camera). Annie would have been your first buyer for this app :-)

    Reply

    • Posted by igorsales on October 6, 2009 at 3:06 am

      Actually, it works on the iPod touch as well. Just select a picture from your library, and you can mark it up!

      Reply

  2. Posted by Mats Lindeberg on October 6, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Hey Igor,

    Great idea — just bought it.

    Can you make any of the measurements appear automatically? Say if I enter one measurement manually, can the app automatically calculate other measurements I add to the picture?

    Cheers,
    Mats

    Reply

  3. Posted by purna on December 2, 2009 at 5:27 am

    its nice

    Reply

  4. Posted by Steve on February 4, 2010 at 8:04 am

    Can you enter text notes

    Reply

    • Posted by igorsales on February 6, 2010 at 3:40 am

      Tthanks for the comment, and sorry for the delay. At this point no notes are supported. It’s a feature I’d like to implement in a near future. If you have ideas on how you want it done, please let me know.

      Reply

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