X1; Image to Scope

 Three month ago I wanted to go back to teaching X28 because I thought X1 was absolutely miserable. With the last 2 updates, X1 has come such a long way that I am enjoying teaching it. And the best part is that students are showing up to class prepared because the X1 download works so much better than the X28 download; no SQL or any other issues. About the only thing they haven’t repaired yet is that you still have to click on the sketch pad before the full screen shortcut (Shift-Enter) will work.
 
One thing that is not working great yet (which has nothing to do with the version) is the new image to scope that was released a few months ago. For those of you not familiar, when you order a Geomni roof or property package, there is a Geomni tab where you can pick and choose your scope with a series of drop down menus. This is great for new adjusters who are unfamiliar with putting together a scope.
 
A few things you have to beware of:

• First, on the property package since it is trying to create elevations from the aerial view, you need to verify its accuracy. There may be missing windows, incorrect types of doors (sliders may show as standard doors), etc. Anything missing or adjustments made will have to be done in the tools tab and not the Geomni tab. They also need to be made before the scope because changes made will not be adjusted in the scope (at least not yet)
• One error (which I have reported to Xactware) is that if you have a sliding glass door and you move it at all (side to side or up or down), it will change from a sliding glass door to an overhead door so the type and height changes.
• Wall changes are not easily made because the wall drawing is an outline drawn on another level (named exterior) and not as a plan view drawing.
• In regards to the scope portion, there is an error in the auto calculation if you need to change a metal soffit. On the condo building I was testing it on, instead of calculating 528 sf of soffit, it came up with 50,441 sf and turned a 28K estimate into a  $268K estimate.
• Lastly (at least for now), if you create an image to scope estimate on the roof and make a few adjustment (like add a few items or correct the metal soffit) and you then go to the property portion to estimate the exterior graphically within the Geomni tab, it will occasionally return your roof estimate back to the original estimate without your corrections and adjustments including going back from a 28K estimate into a  $268K estimate. It appears that you can only do 1 image to scope estimate within a project. The question I asked was why would anyone order the property report if you can only do an estimate on one in image to scope.

I don’t think I would use the image to scope option just yet because there are too many issues and if you are unfamiliar with what it is doing, it is very frustrating and you keep redoing things trying to get it to work correctly.
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