Enhancing AI-Assisted Design Accuracy: Introducing SubcontractorHub AI Edit Mode

SubcontractorHub’s AI-Assisted design tool now includes an enhanced edit mode that offers a comprehensive suite of features, providing solar businesses with greater control and precision in solar installation design. This transformative functionality empowers sales representatives to adjust AI-Assisted designs according to a customer’s specific needs without switching to the more complex manual design tool. With edit mode, SubcontractorHub is ushering in a new era of efficiency, customization, and accuracy in the solar design landscape.

Using edit mode, sales representatives can quickly refine solar layouts to ensure the design aligns perfectly with the roof structure. For example, if the AI-Assisted design tool inaccurately positions solar panels, edit mode allows sales reps to move and rotate the misplaced panel set so that it is optimally aligned. In addition to these core adjustments, edit mode now integrates a host of advanced features that further streamline the design process:

3D Design Mode: Switch to a 3D view to design solar layouts in a spatial, realistic environment.

Full-Screen Mode: Utilize the full-screen button to expand the AI-Assisted design tool for an immersive design experience.

Setbacks and Obstructions:

Obstructions: Highlighted in red, obstructions can be deleted to maximize panel placement.

Setbacks: Yellow lines around roof facets indicate areas where solar panels cannot be placed. Users can customize gutter line, obstruction, and other setback values.

Remove Shading: The "remove shading" button allows sales reps to disregard shading on a facet, enabling panel placement without shading constraints.

Design Modes: Choose from three distinct design modes, each offering a different data source for design images and production data to tailor the solar layout.

Flat Roof Toggle: Draw flat facets for flat roof and ground-mounted layouts using the dedicated flat roof toggle in edit mode.

Facet List: Access a detailed list of facets describing each area of the design; clicking on a facet’s details highlights it within the layout.

Orientation: Easily switch a facet’s orientation between landscape and portrait with the orientation button.

Recommend Panels: After editing the design, the "Recommend Panels" button becomes available to receive a high-efficiency solar layout recommendation.

Panel Snapping: Ensure that when individual panels are moved, they remain aligned correctly. Panels moved outside the roof boundaries will automatically snap back into their proper position.

Add Multiple Individual Panels: In addition to placing panels individually, use a click-and-drag functionality to efficiently add multiple individual panels to a facet at once.

Calculator Button: At any point during editing, users can click the calculator button to recalculate the solar layout of a specific facet.

Edit Facets: After drawing and saving a facet, use the facet edit feature to click and drag points, changing the design of the facet.

Transforming and Streamlining AI-Assisted Design with Edit Mode

SubcontractorHub’s edit mode simplifies the solar design process, making it faster and more adaptable to real-world conditions. Sales representatives begin by generating the initial solar layout through the AI-Assisted design process, then enter edit mode to access the full suite of design tools. Within edit mode, they can move and rotate misaligned panel sets, customize setbacks, remove shading, modify facets, and leverage the advanced features listed above to fine-tune the design. Once all necessary adjustments are complete, they can click the “Calculate” button to compute the system’s annual production, and finally click on the “Next” button to save the design.

SubcontractorHub's AI-Assisted design tool, with its unified edit mode functionality, sets a new standard for customization. By integrating powerful features such as 3D and full-screen modes, customizable setbacks, shading removal, multiple design modes, and more, the tool revolutionizes the solar sales landscape. Sales representatives can now cater to customer needs seamlessly while leveraging advanced AI-Assisted design capabilities.

Interested in discovering how the enhanced edit mode can elevate your solar design process? Schedule a demo with SubcontractorHub today to explore our advanced AI-Assisted design tool and experience its innovative features firsthand.