Upload a drawing and get editable CAD back. A PDF exported from CAD comes out as an exact, scaled DXF with its own layers. A scanned blueprint — or a JPG or PNG of a plan — is traced and scaled from one dimension you know. Either way the plan can go on to a 3D model — walls, door and window openings, room slabs — as 3D DXF, OBJ or IFC for Revit and ArchiCAD.
Every line, arc and text of the sheet at true scale, on the PDF's own layers.
Opens in AutoCAD, BricsCAD, DraftSight, LibreCAD, Vectorworks
Walls as real IfcWall objects with door and window openings cut, rooms as spaces with areas.
Opens in Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, BIM viewers
Walls extruded to the height you set, lintels over doors, a floor slab per room.
Opens in AutoCAD, SketchUp
The same massing model as a mesh, grouped into walls and slabs.
Opens in Rhino, Blender, SketchUp Pro, 3ds Max
Most drawing sets you receive as PDFs were plotted out of AutoCAD, Revit or ArchiCAD. Those files still contain the line work as lines — coordinates, arcs, text — and the converter reads them directly. Nothing is redrawn from a picture, so a wall that was 3,600 mm in the original is 3,600 mm in the DXF, not 3,597.
It reads the scale off the title block when one is printed there and lets you override it. It keeps the PDF's layers when the exporter wrote them, keeps line colours and dashed hidden and centre lines, and drops geometry that was clipped out of view on the sheet, so a cropped viewport does not drag the rest of the model in with it.
An old permit set or a paper blueprint put through a scanner has no lines in it to read — only pixels. The converter recognises walls, doorways and windows and rebuilds them as clean CAD geometry. Then you draw a line over one dimension you know and type its length, and the whole drawing is scaled from that.
It is a fast start on an as-built, not a survey. Check the traced walls against the sheet before anything is built on them — the preview sits right next to the result so you can.
A PDF has no heights, so you supply them: wall height and door height, with sensible defaults in metres or feet. The plan's walls are extruded to that height, doorways get a lintel, windows get a sill and a head, and each room gets a floor slab. You see it in 3D before you download it.
The 3D model is a massing model: the shell of the building at the right size. It has no roof, stairs, finishes or structure, because none of that is in a floor plan.
Yes, when the PDF was exported from CAD. A vector PDF still contains the original line work, so the converter reads the lines themselves rather than tracing a picture of them. It looks for the drawing scale in the title block ("SCALE 1:100", "1/4" = 1'-0""), and you confirm or change it before export. Lengths in the DXF are then real lengths in the unit you pick — millimetres, centimetres, metres, inches or feet.
Yes, but the result is approximate and it says so. A scan is a photograph of a drawing: there are no lines in it to read, only pixels. The converter traces the walls, doorways and windows it can recognise and asks you to draw a line over one dimension you know — a wall you have measured, a dimensioned opening — to set the scale. Check the tracing against the sheet before you build on it. Clean, high-contrast scans of plans trace well; a faded blueprint with handwriting across it will not.
Yes. Upload a JPG, PNG or WebP of a floor plan — a phone photo of a printed plan, a scan, or a screenshot from a listing — and it goes through the same tracing as a scanned PDF: walls, doorways and windows are recognised, you draw a line over one dimension you know to set the scale, and it exports to DXF, 3D DXF, OBJ or IFC. Shoot the plan straight on, flat and evenly lit; a skewed or shadowed photo traces worse. Text on the plan is not converted.
The converter writes DXF, not DWG. DXF is Autodesk's own exchange format and AutoCAD opens it directly — open the DXF, then Save As DWG if your office standard needs one. Every other CAD program that reads DWG reads DXF too.
A PDF has no heights in it, so the 3D model is built from the plan plus heights you type: wall height, door height. The converter recognises the walls and openings, extrudes the walls, puts a lintel over every doorway and a sill and head around every window, and lays a floor slab in each room. That is a massing model to start from — the shell of the building at the right size — not a finished BIM model with finishes, stairs or roofs.
Yes. The IFC export writes each wall as an IfcWall with a real extruded profile, each doorway and window as an opening in that wall with an IfcDoor or IfcWindow filling it, and each room as an IfcSpace with its floor area. Revit, ArchiCAD and Vectorworks import those as walls, doors, windows and rooms rather than as a lump of triangles.
When the PDF has them, yes — the layer names from the original drawing become DXF layers, and colours and dashed linetypes come across. When it does not, the converter sorts the line work into layers by line weight, so heavy walls, medium detail and fine hatching and dimensions end up separated rather than all on layer 0.
Upload the set once and convert any page from it. Each page becomes its own conversion with its own scale, so a site plan at 1:500 and a floor plan at 1:50 in the same PDF both come out right.
No. The converter is part of the paid plans, because the files it produces are working drawings people bill against and the conversion runs on our servers. Your uploaded PDFs and the files made from them are private to your account and can be deleted at any time.
The converter is included in the paid plans. Your drawings stay private to your account.