3D Inspection
Mobile Inspector
Your mobile companion is your best assistant!
3D Mobile Inspector FREE companion app available for US, CAN, AU, and NZ may be installed on multiple compatible devices.
You may demo the app interface without Cloud3D Services, but must activate your personal Cloud3D Services account to transfer real inspections or use the sub account login your company provides.
3D Mobile Inspector
Lets get started!
Follow these easy and quick steps:
You have the efficiency of 3D inspection System at your fingertips. Let’s journey through each step.
Step A
Install the mobile app
Step B
Demo the interface
After installing, open a Sample report to play with. All devices insert landscape (recommended) and portrait photos. Larger tablets can also rotate the main entry screen, whereas phone sized devices use portrait.
Available sample reports merely let you demo the interface. 3D Mobile Inspector with your personal Cloud3D login will use YOUR custom forms from the desktop software.
Tip: If you accidentally attempt to login before having an account created by the desktop software, swipe the app closed and reopen fresh or restart your device.
Your Mobile Workspace Highlights:
- Use ANY custom forms (residential, commercial, marine) from 3D Inspection System desktop software
- Long-press Camera icon to Insert from Camera or device Gallery
- Bookmark fields to quickly return later in mobile or desktop
- Long press headings or subheadings to replicate items, rooms, or components
- While on site, review non-inspected items, or preview report or summary list
Step C
Cloud3D℠ Services
Activate Cloud3D Services:
1. You or your employer’s 3D subscription allows free use of Cloud3D Services. Or contact sales about a pre-purchase live trial. If you do not have a company name yet, enter N/A in that signup field.
2. You’ll receive an email when your account is enabled and ready for use.
Login to the master desktop software using your Activation ID Account. We recommend the registered desktop user create sub accounts for himself or others to login to receive and return reports on mobile devices. If working for another company, ask the registered user to create a subaccount login for you (see multiple inspectors next).
MULTIPLE INSPECTORS? Where official Branch copies have been obtained by employers, the inspector usually signs up for himself to use his own own independent Cloud3D Services account to directly upload and retrieve inspections. Otherwise without branch licensing, employers MUST create subaccount logins for each inspector, including the owner/operator if he or she is also an inspector. This is done using report writer Preferences Cloud3D Services tab in the desktop software.
Whenever there are additional inspectors, the master office login should NEVER be used directly on any mobile device and for security and to prevent issues, never provided to any other inspector. Instead the office should create separate logins for each inspector, whom should ONLY use the sub-account login assigned to them in the mobile app. Failure to do so may result in data loss due to accidental overwriting.
Inspector logins may be updated, changed, or managed by the main office at any time. Inspections are generated from and returned back to the same master office database controlled computer. The master login may be set to be “remembered” there without revealing it for use by staff.
Step D
Use with 3D desktop software
*Cloud3D Services must be enabled (see step C. above)
- Send a report to your device:
1. Add and assign your Office Management job to the desired inspector. After saving the job, select it and use the right pane activity “Create and upload mobile inspection”.
2. Choose a job name assigned to the inspector and report forms. Login to upload the inspection, along with its Inspection date and time for convenient listing in the mobile app.
- Use a report on your device:
1. In 3D Mobile Inspector, login with the sub-account your office assigned you.
NOTE: When there are multiple inspectors, each inspector (including owner) MUST use a separate sub account login managed and assigned from master desktop program to retrieve and return inspections in the mobile app. To avoid data loss or overwriting, no login should be shared for use by another inspector.
2. Tap the Pending report(s) and Download.
3. Open and Inspect! See Overview video.
4. When finished with your report, return Back to the inspections list.
5. Tap the inspection and Upload. “Inspections on the server” shows the current of your mobile reports assigned to your login.
- Retrieve reports back to master desktop program:
1. Tap “Retrieve Mobile Inspection” in Office Management toolbar.
2. Select “Completed” report and OK it’s download and conversion into a regular inspection in the desktop program.
3. Finalize report (attach summary, etc.), review, and deliver to your client!
Other tips or notes
- Special Note about limited graphical forms (WDO, Wind Mitigation, HUD, etc.)
3D Mobile Inspector works exceptionally well for narrative style forms used for most inspections. However, special graphical forms that must print special hard-coded layouts some restrictions and caveats. 3D Mobile Inspector does not know when a form is designed to print graphically. When using graphical forms, do not copy heading or subheading elements because graphical forms can use new sections, only existing fields on final printouts. Only insert photos into existing fields specifically designated to accept them, as they otherwise will fail to work.
Only insert a single photo into each such designated photo field. Where a photo section is included in a graphical form, usually multiple fields are provided for inserting photos separately into each one. None of these restrictions apply to regular narrative style form groups. (To verify whether a particular form group is graphical or not, switch to the regular Report Writer and click File > New Inspection to view your forms groups. White icons in the listing are narrative; Yellow icons are graphical)
- Notes about Images
Insert images directly from Camera or Gallery by long pressing the camera icon. Embedding upwards of 100 photos per report is not recommend to ensure reports don’t become too large to transfer. If extreme numbers of photos are needed, consider utilizing bookmark options for later insertion. Contact support for advice.
- Notes about added comments
Tap comment field for a subheading to add additional manual text to print after your selected narratives or fill placeholders. Simply type a one-time comment. To add a new comment for future inspections use the menu option to save as a new narrative. Note using Import existing selected narratives to edit them further strips out rich text formatting because mobile doesn’t support those libraries. However, narratives remaining selected in the app menu will import original master form comment, including rich text formatting (colors, bolding, italics, etc.) into your final report at retrieve time.
Therefore, to retain specific original formatting yet edit existing wording in standard comment, you might bookmark the field to revisit later after retrieval in desktop to make final edits.
- Note about summary
Forms that automatically use Ratings to mark summary items automatically work in mobile. However where forms do not use Ratings for summary, one may manually flag a field for summary by tapping to edit comments and then specifying the desired summary area on that window. Any narratives pre-set for summary in such forms change the field for that summary area automatically when selected.
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Impress clients and generate referrals, while saving time collecting inspection findings. An efficient solution can produce professional inspection reports and give you back your free time! AND MONEY!
The other guys make you purchase the same program over and over, year after year.
Impress clients and generate referrals, while saving time collecting inspection findings. An efficient solution can produce professional inspection reports and give you back your free time! AND MONEY!
The other guys make you purchase the same program over and over, year after year.
Impress clients and generate referrals, while saving time collecting inspection findings. An efficient solution can produce professional inspection reports and give you back your free time! AND MONEY!
The other guys make you purchase the same program over and over, year after year.
