360° Site Documentation for Structural Engineers
Stop wasting hours explaining where each photo was taken. Pin your 360° site photos directly to your PDF floor plans and share a link.
The Problem
Hundreds of photos in folders with no spatial context. Clients asking 'where exactly was this crack?'.
Structural engineers face a persistent documentation problem. A condition survey generates hundreds of photos that arrive back in the office without spatial context — no clear indication of which photo belongs to which structural element, and no way for a client unfamiliar with a building to navigate the evidence. The traditional workaround is to number photos, annotate drawings by hand, and cross-reference laboriously in a written report. This takes hours and produces documents that are difficult for clients to use.
Pin360 solves this by making the floor plan itself the navigation interface. Every photo lives at a specific location on the engineer's own PDF drawings — the same drawings the client already has, the same drawings the structural engineer worked from at design stage. Clients click a pin on the plan and immediately see a 360° view from that exact location. Severity classifications translate the engineer's professional assessment into immediately understood visual coding.
The survey becomes a permanent, shareable digital record — accessible years later when the building changes hands or the same defect reappears. For structural engineers, this eliminates the photo-numbering overhead, produces more compelling client deliverables, and reduces the number of follow-up queries asking 'which wall did this crack appear on?'. For firms working on subsidence investigations, crack monitoring programmes, or multi-visit condition reports, the ability to compare surveys over time is particularly valuable.
Built for Structural Engineering
Precise Pinning
Drop markers on your structural drawings to mark exact defect locations.
Severity Pins
Use color-coded pins to flag high-priority structural issues.
Interactive Reports
Give clients a 'Street View' of their own building's condition.
How It Works in Practice
Upload your structural drawings
Before the site visit, upload the relevant PDF structural drawings or floor plans to pin360. Multi-page PDFs are supported, so you can upload an entire drawing set in a single file and navigate between levels on site or at your desk. The plan becomes your navigation interface for the entire survey.
Photograph each survey location
On site, use your 360° camera — Insta360, Ricoh Theta, or GoPro Max — to photograph each key structural element, defect location, or area of interest. No special mounting or complex setup is required. One 360° shot per location captures the full spatial context: surrounding structure, access routes, and scale.
Pin panoramas to the drawing
Back at the office, open the drawing in pin360 and drop a pin at the precise location of each photograph. Attach the panorama file. For defects, set a severity classification: critical for structural safety concerns, major for significant deterioration, minor for cosmetic issues, advisory for items to monitor.
Add your technical observations
For each pinned location, type the relevant observation — crack widths, materials, extent of damage, or professional assessment. Notes appear when the client clicks the pin. This combines the photographic evidence with your professional interpretation in a single, linked record.
Share a single survey link
Generate the project link and send it to your client, include it in your written report, or share it with your team. Anyone can navigate the survey in any browser with no software or account required. The link becomes the permanent, shareable record of the building's condition at the survey date.
Common Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
pin360 is purpose-built for structural engineers. It lets you pin 360° panoramic photos directly onto your own PDF floor plans and share an interactive link with clients — so every photo has a precise location on the drawing, not just a filename in a folder.
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