The shower is now measured off the plan too

Floors on a CAD drawing set were already measured off the sheet. Showers weren't: the bathroom floor stopped at the curb, and the shower inside it came back with no size at all — and the interior elevations, the sheets that are supposed to dimension the shower, often print only the ceiling height and no wall widths.

Now we find the shower on the plan and measure it.

What you'll see

• The shower floor gets a size of its own. For a shower with walls on three sides — the usual alcove — it says measured off the plan, like a measured floor. A corner shower with glass on two sides is offered as a rough read, because there's less on the drawing to go on.
• The shower walls get a figure built from the walls the shower actually stands against, times the tile height the elevations print. The glass side, the curb and the door aren't counted as tiled wall. A bench is part of the shower but not part of its floor, so its footprint isn't in the shower floor number.
• If the elevations also dimensioned the shower, you still see both: the one we trust more is on the surface, and the other is kept beside it on the review sheet.

What it won't do

• Nothing lands on its own. Every shower size is a suggestion — tap Use and it becomes your number. Nothing prices off it until you do.
• It won't guess a height. If no sheet prints how high the shower tile goes, the walls stay blank rather than borrow a standard 8 ft. The floor is still measured.
• It won't invent a shower. A room with no shower in your schedule never gets one, and a room whose drawing doesn't close the shower off — a curbless shower with nothing drawn across it — is left for you to size.