AI for quantity takeoffs from 2D CAD Drawing PDFs
Simply type which quantities you want to extract from 2D CAD PDFs for estimation & bidding.
Extract data and search 2D CAD drawing PDFs
Extract quantities from PDF Floor & Site Plan CAD drawings
How it works:
- Upload PDF construction drawings and select the 'Extract CAD data' workflow
- Simply type the scope of the data which you want to extract in natural language (e.g "measure the floor areas and count the windows and doors")
- Hit run and AI extracts data for you
- Our expert QA team review the outputs
- You are notified when the takeoff is complete
Quantity take-off capabilities
Quickly search details across your Drawings repository
How it works:
- Upload and organise key drawings and contractual documents into your document storage or integrate Civils.ai with Autodesk Construction Cloud to find them automatically.
- Type queries to instant search across the information in your repository and fetch answers.
- Help your staff stay compliant on your projects
Quick search capabilities
Find specific details from your Floor & Site Plan drawings
- Need to find details related to a specific floor of the building?
- Simple search for the name of the floor or detail you are looking for and the AI will tell you where it is in the drawings.
- Search by drawing name, detail name, or just a general description of what you are looking for.
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.
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.
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.
Project case study
Where Civils.ai has been having an impact
We support the Contractor Penta Ocean with automated workflows to help them bid for tunnelling projects more efficiently
We support Consultants at Asia Infrastructure Solutions with automated workflows to extract data and feed into digital twins for Infrastructure Projects
We help the Developer JTC automate checking processes like code compliance, contract compliance checking and cross-checking items like schedules of rates against variation orders.
We support Consultants and Clients in the United Kingdom design critical Energy Infrastructure by utilising and checking data from scanned historic land datasets
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
efficiency saving
"Auto checking our plans against tender specs is a game changer."
Example of the savings over 4 months on a $520 million infrastructure project.
Supports Scanned & 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.
Modernize your estimation and bidding workflow
Stop digging through PDFs and doing takeoffs manually
Simply type in the quantities you need and let AI fetch the quantities from the drawings
Review and make any corrections to the takeoff before exporting it to Excel.
Share your repository
- Save the AI workflow to your team account
- Give others in your team permission to run your workflow
- Share outputs and your results with others in your team
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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