Extract data and search 2D CAD Drawing PDFs

Use AI to extract Raw Data from 2D CAD drawings searching and structuring notes, schedules and tables.

Extract data and search 2D CAD drawing PDFs

Who is this built for

Engineering team
Architects
Quality Manager
Design Manager

Input(s)

Drawings

Benefits

  • Upload tender drawings and run a series of checks to decide if you should bid for the project.
  • Extract data related to a specific elements of the project to help with design and costing.
  • Run simple Quality Assurance checks on drawings to ensure they are up to standard.
  • Extract data from as-built drawings to help with maintenance and repairs.

Use cases

  1. PDF CAD drawings exist on every construction project and staff lose time manually fetching data from these drawings
  2. Simply upload the CAD Drawings into Civils.ai and our proprietary algorithm helps you to read any schedules, notes and tables from the drawing into either a text summary or an Excel file
  3. Save your teams time by eliminating manual transcription of PDF data.

  1. Upload and organise key drawings and contractual documents into your document storage or integrate Civils.ai with Autodesk Construction Cloud to find them automatically.
  2. Type queries to instant search across the information in your repository and fetch answers.
  3. Help your staff stay compliant on your projects

Optimised for modern PDF but capable of reading Scanned, Handwritten & Historic Drawings

  • In construction it's all too familiar that we are given can be untidy and messy data with a big chunk of our time spent simply cleaning information up.
  • We developed our system to read from even the most challenging document formats with unmatched accuracy.
  • We use cutting edge vision intelligence AI to read everything.
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Find specific details from your Civil & Infrastructure drawings

  • Need to know a thickness for foundation type on your project? Simply ask the AI and it will find the answer and retrieve the relevant drawing.
  • In locations like interfaces between structures our system has the ability to understand information reading across multiple drawings at once.

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Find specific details from your Utilities & Layout drawings

  • Need to find details of the traffic diversion plan? Simply ask the AI and it will find the answer and retrieve the relevant drawing.
  • Our system not only understand the labels on a drawing but associates them together with the objects being labelled to understand the true meaning of the drawing.
  • Find similar drawings you've previously created to markup and pass to your CAD technician for reusing on the next plan.

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Find specific details from your Building Designs & Floor Plan drawings

  • Need to find details or quanities from a specific floor of the building? Simply search with natural language for the details you need
  • Count off basic quanities from your drawings automatically
  • Double check your building plans meet with legal requirement such as disabled access and fire safety.

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Find specific details from Architectural details

  • Need to find architectural details from your PDF archive to reuse on your latest project? Simply search with natural language for the details you need
  • No need to categorise or group details yourself, simply use natural language for the filtering.
  • Download details and pass to your CAD Technician for reuse.

Case study

Where Civils.ai has been having an impact
Example of the savings over 4 months on the design of a $520 million infrastructure project.

1,203

AI workflow runs
"We use Civils.ai getting answers across our 400+ page contracts, specs and COP."

5-15 minutes

saved per prompt
"We save 5-15 minutes per prompt, depends on if we are on site & question complexity."

89%

results accuracy
"For text & tables it's excellent. We appreciate the team's efforts to capture more CAD data."

200+ hours

effiency saving
"Auto checking our plans against tender specs is a game changer."
Optimised for mobile

Know everything about your project even whilst visiting site or in a meeting

Login securely from your web browser.
  • Never get caught out whilst your are on the job site or in a meeting.
  • Instantly search 1000's of project documents in seconds.
Modernize the way you work with your CAD Drawings
Escape from trying to find key details here
Reuse key details + find details you never realised you had
Our projects are complex and we don't always realise when another team member has already designed the same thing before.
Share details with CAD Technicians
Share your project directly with your CAD Technicians
Or find CAD details yourself, download your CAD drawings, mark them up and share them with your CAD technicians.
Sync with Autodesk & more
Get started by uploading your PDF drawings manually or sync us with your ACC so we can automatically pull in your drawings and start indexing them.
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