..but there's something so inherently satisfying about having measurements line up...
Indeed. And equally annoying when measurements do not add up. Thanks for sharing useful tips. Getting an old house right can be a pain. Image below illustrates the point. It took a long time to find the reason for missing centimetres in one side of a downstairs room: the wall was not aligned with the foundation. The discrepancy was 0.78° on that section of the wall. Invisible from the inside, but enough to steal 6 centimetres from one side of the room.
..approximation is accurate enough for the intended purpose...
What sort of accuracy did you get in the end? My goal, after a lot of trying and failing, is < 1cm in a normal room. And even better for detailed decoration like fitting a kitchen. Even if it takes a lot of time and adjustments to get very high accuracy. Thankfully, we had some brilliant carpenters who amazingly managed to cut the counter-tops to millimetre precision so the kitchen looks perfectly aligned even if the room is not.As an addition to what you say: A laser measure is priceless for this exercise (not ultrasound with laser pointer, too many errors). And, sometimes, for high accuracy: it can be useful to draw a room based on inside measurements first and auto-create walls around the room later. To get it right, it may help to use ENTER while drawing to insert exact values + Advanced plan editing plug-in.
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