Guides, comparisons and analyses on AI applied to floor plan analysis, takeoff and BIM workflows.
Every PDF floor plan ends up needing to enter AutoCAD or Revit one day. Here is how to produce a workable DXF — clean layers, real scale, closed polygons — without redrawing.
Read more →Automated takeoff is everywhere in vendor pitches, but real numbers differ noticeably from marketing. Here is what 200 projects analysed over 18 months actually say.
Read more →Three tools, three very different philosophies: mobile capture, vector plans, PDF analysis. Here is an objective comparison to choose by your real case.
Read more →The PDF-to-BIM jump is the most time-consuming moment on a renovation project. Here is a 6-step Revit workflow that divides the time by 5.
Read more →Five years after the first demos, AI for floor plans has entered industrial phase. Here is the real state of models, datasets and limits in 2026.
Read more →The Quantity Surveyor profession has seen more change in 3 years than in 30. This article takes field stock of the tools that actually work for QSs in 2026.
Read more →A multi-level A0 renovation sheet with no written scale: how FloorScan recovered the exact scale and produced the takeoff automatically.
Read more →Scanning, drawing and analyzing are not the same need. Here is which tool to pick depending on what you actually want to do with a PDF plan.
Read more →From PDF import to Excel/DXF export: the step-by-step method for a reliable takeoff, and the scale pitfalls to avoid.
Read more →Getting usable surfaces and quantities into Excel from a PDF plan, without retyping everything by hand.
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