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Before a product makes a claim, we test it. Our research asks one question: how accurately can framing be measured from a scan?
How we test
- Synthetic houses. We build full houses on the computer with known leans, so every answer can be checked.
- Clutter. We add sheathing, plates, trusses and noise until the finders still work in a messy, real-looking scan.
- Real studs. We scan real studs whose lean is measured with a digital level, and put them into the houses.
- Real houses. Next, whole framed houses on site.
Where we are
On synthetic houses the method finds every stud and measures lean to about a hundredth of a degree. With real studs, every stud is still found and leaning studs are still caught, but the real surface of a stud adds a few tenths of a degree, so we are improving the scans and the method before making the finish-plumb claim.
Research for this work runs under the name OpenWall. About OpenWall