Sheets you can actually read, and a card that stops guessing

Four fixes to reading a builder's package, all from watching real sets go through.

Zoom in and it gets sharper

Tapping a sheet gave you a picture that looked fine until you pinched into it — then it went soft, which on a 42-inch architectural sheet is the same as showing you nothing. The lettering on those drawings is an eighth of an inch tall.

Now a much bigger copy of the sheet loads behind the scenes the moment you zoom past the point where the first one runs out. Same picture, same spot, four times the detail — the dimension strings and room numbers are legible instead of implied. It only loads when you actually zoom, so opening a sheet for a quick look is as fast as it ever was.

The room in question is outlined

A close-up of one room still has the rooms next door in it — that's what makes it useful. But on a "which room is this?" check, four pictures of four corners of the same floor plan, none of them marked, is the question asked twice.

Every one of those pictures now has the room's own label outlined in terracotta: on the little thumbnail beside the answer, and again when you open it. Zoom in and the outline scales with the drawing, staying on the thing it marks.

The card waits until it knows

If you upload the tile schedule and the drawing set together, the schedule gets read in seconds and the drawings take a few minutes. Step two used to notice the schedule was read and immediately report a result — "Biddy matched the tile schedule · 0 rooms" — while the plans it was supposed to match against were still being worked through. A few minutes later the real answer turned up: 21 rooms, 13 lined up.

Reading the schedule and matching it are two different jobs, and only the second one produces rooms. So step two now tells you which one it's on — "Biddy read the tile schedule — 41 rows · waiting for the plans to finish, then matching" — and only reports counts once the matching has actually run. Step three says rooms are on their way instead of claiming none exist. No step reports a zero while there's still work happening.

Rooms get measured off the drawings again

Where the tile schedule doesn't print a square footage, BidCraft measures the room off the plan itself — crops the drawing around the room, reads the printed dimensions, converts them with the sheet's own scale, and asks you to confirm. On big packages that had quietly stopped happening: the rooms landed, the schedule matched, and the measuring step did nothing at all without saying so.

It runs again. And it now writes down what it did on every run, so if it ever goes quiet on a set we can see it from the outside instead of guessing.

One more thing: finding the rooms is faster

Working through a floor plan with two dozen rooms on it used to mean re-opening the whole sheet once per room. It now takes every crop out of the one picture it already made, which is most of the wait gone from the "finding the rooms" step on a big set.