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Notes from building AECoViz.

Early posts — expect more as the product and the studios using it grow.

Collaboration without the email back-and-forth

Pinned comments, view-only share links and version snapshots keep design feedback attached to the geometry it's about.

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Running your studio's finances inside AECoViz

P&L, cash-flow forecast and AR aging build automatically from your invoices, time and expenses — no month-end spreadsheet reconstruction.

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Render Studio's quality score, explained

Every output gets scored excellent, good, review or retry — with a short note on why, and an option to auto-retry a weak result.

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Cost estimation without hiring a quantity surveyor

A quantity takeoff derived directly from your plan's geometry, priced against an editable regional rate library — indicative, not a quote.

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Multi-floor stacking: designing more than one storey

Replicate your ground plate across additional floors with a vertically-aligned stair core, then switch between levels while you edit.

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From sketch to wall: how auto-trace works

Upload a hand sketch or photo of a plan and get back a rough set of editable walls — no AI vision API key required.

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Vastu compliance, explained

An optional ruleset layered on top of byelaws and egress — toggle it on when a client wants it checked, leave it off when they don't.

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A quick guide to reading your compliance report

FAR, coverage, setbacks and egress — what each check actually means and why it's flagged pass, warn or fail.

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Every generated plan is real geometry, not an image

A scheme from Floor Plan Studio is walls, rooms, doors and windows you keep editing — not a picture you trace over.

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How the layout solver actually works

A deterministic slicing-tree algorithm and an AI variant strategy propose schemes in parallel — with a fallback so generation never depends entirely on an external provider.

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Why AI floor plan generation still needs an architect

The generator removes the blank-page problem. It doesn't remove the architect.

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What our compliance checks actually check

Byelaws, egress and accessibility — built to catch obvious issues early, not to replace a sign-off.

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Why Render Studio is chat-driven, not slider-driven

Describing intent in words keeps a record of what was tried and why. A slider panel doesn't.

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