Which elements can be recovered?
Vector floor plans may contain extractable walls, doors, windows, grids, room text and dimensions. In scanned plans these elements must be recognized from pixels.
Walls and openings
Walls often appear as parallel lines. Cleanup joins fragments, removes duplicates and keeps openings readable. Curved walls need extra attention because simple tracing can turn them into short straight chords.
Text, dimensions and symbols
OCR can recover room names and some dimensions, but technical symbols do not automatically become intelligent CAD blocks. Verify critical dimensions and rebuild specialist symbols on dedicated layers when necessary.
Set the scale
Measure a known distance, divide the required length by the measured CAD length and apply that factor to the complete drawing. Read the full scale guide.
Choose the required cleanup
| Use | Recommended output |
|---|---|
| Underlay | Basic geometry with verified scale |
| Design revisions | Clean polylines, text and layers |
| BIM modelling | Verified CAD base before import |
| Fabrication | Fully checked dimensions and closed geometry |
When manual redrawing is better
Use manual redrawing for blurred archive plans, handwritten changes or missing dimensions. See our manual CAD redrawing service.