Patent ID: 7181371

Claim:
A method of creating a 3 dimensional (“3-D”) computer model rendering of a plurality of rooms of an architectural structure comprising the steps of: (a) launching a computer-aided design software program adapted to received measurements from a laser measuring device and operative to create a computer model of a room on a computing device; (b) launching a dialog box of the software program by either using a mouse, or entering the designated number on the laser measuring devices; (c) measuring a length of a wall of a room using the laser measuring device; (d) transmitting the wall length measurement to the computing device; (e) receiving the wall length measurement by the program (f) populating a length field in the dialog box with the wall length measurement; (g) measuring a height of the wall using the laser measuring device; (h) transmitting the wall height measurement to the computing device; (i) receiving the wall height measurement by the program; (j) populating a height field with the wall height measurement; (k) determining a thickness of the wall; (l) inputting the wall thickness measurement into the program by manual entry into the computing device or by transmission by the laser measuring device and receiving by the program; (m) accepting a rendering of the wall generated by the program by manual entry into the computing device or with the laser measuring device and thereby confirming the computer generated wall rendering has been created properly; (n) moving around the interior of the room and repeating selected ones of steps (a) through (m) a plurality of times for each of a selected combination of architectural objects; (o) moving to at least one more room in the architectural structure and repeating step (n) a selected number of times until a desired portion of the structure has been measured and the computer model rendering of the plurality of rooms of the architectural structure has been created.