Known limits

In the beta today

Ply’s render engine and Vel’s review are still being finished. Until they land, a render in the beta returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer that answers from a fixed script: its decisions there say nothing about the image. Credits there are test credits.

• Plans and buying credits are not open yet. Credits are added by Plyvel during the beta, and prices are beta prices that may change.
• Spending limits per member come with the Team plan, once plans are open. Until then, every member’s renders use the workspace’s credits with no limit of their own.
• Views can be added and renamed, but not removed yet.
• After an account is deleted, its sign-in email address stays on file until a last step removes the sign-in account itself. Plyvel runs that step by hand, within 30 days. Until then the account opens no workspace.
• A project can move from your personal workspace into a team, but not back out of a team yet.
• The receipt can be saved as JSON, or downloaded with the image once approved. There is no PDF version yet.
• Help search matches the words in its articles. There are no AI answers.

In the app’s Help: Known limits of this beta

What Vel checks, and what it cannot

• Visual, not certification. Vel compares images. Its checks are not measurements, and they do not cover structure, building codes, construction or dimensions.
• Hidden parts. Where a tree, a shadow or another object hides part of the building, Vel can flag a problem that is not there. When it is not sure, it answers UNCERTAIN; it never turns an uncertain review into a pass.
• Small things. A small change in a busy area, or a detail at the edge of the frame, can pass. A fine element, such as one post of a balustrade, can be missed.
• Artefacts. A smear or a repeated detail is a problem Vel can miss like any other: compare every result with the approved source yourself.
• Before anything is built. VEL VERIFIED is a visual review, and your eye is the last check. Use the drawings, and the review of a qualified professional, for anything that will be built or set out.

This receipt records Plyvel’s visual checks. It is not structural, engineering, building-code, construction, or dimensional certification.

In the app’s Help: What Vel cannot certify

Regions are provisional

Regions are PROVISIONAL. Plyvel records them with the request and lists them in its receipt. The render engine does not use them yet, and Vel does not check them yet. A result can still change outside a change region or inside a protected one.

Marking a region needs a mouse, a pen or touch; there is no keyboard way yet.

In the app’s Help: Marking regions (provisional)

What a receipt shows

A valid signature shows that the receipt is unchanged since Plyvel issued it, and a matching SHA-256 that the file is the one it names. Together they say nothing more about the design itself.

An approval records who decided and when. It is not a check, and it does not change Vel’s state.

In the app’s Help: Checking a receipt

This site

• English only. An Arabic, right-to-left version is planned.
• The pictures on this site are the included example, a pavilion Plyvel rendered from its own model: not a client project, and not a result of Ply or Vel.
• There are no published cases with real projects yet.