AI Takeoff — what it can do
What the AI detects on your drawings, what plan you need, and the one rule that matters — the AI drafts, you verify.
Updated Aug 16, 20262 min read
AI Takeoff reads your sheets and drafts objects for you — the same shapes you'd draw by hand, just faster. Nothing it draws is final until you've checked it: every AI result carries a confidence score and can be edited, renamed, recolored or deleted like anything else.
What it can detect
Open the AI takeoff menu in the toolbar:
| Detection | What you get | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Page name & scale | Sheet names from the title block, and a proposed drawing scale for each page | Read sheet names and scale |
| Floorplan | Walls, rooms, doors and windows on the current page | Detect walls, rooms, doors and windows |
| Smart Floorplan | Same, tuned for busy or unusual plans | same |
| Concrete volume, Roofing | Marked SOON — not available yet | — |
How a run works
- Pick a detection (some ask you to drag a region first).
- Watch the progress overlay — Starting detection… → Running ML models… → Syncing results to canvas… → Detection complete. You can keep working elsewhere.
- Review what appeared in the Takeoff tab — AI results are filed by CSI division (08 – Openings, 09 – Finishes, 06 – Wood, Plastics, and Composites) — see Review AI results.
Only one AI assist runs per project at a time; every run is recorded under DETECTION HISTORY so you can revisit or re-run it — see Detection history and re-running.
What it costs
Pro includes 100 AI credits per month. Detections use credits; see AI credits and limits.
Good input = good output
- Vector PDFs exported from CAD/Revit give the best results; clean scans work, blurry phone photos don't.
- Set or confirm the page scale before floorplan detection so quantities come out in real units.
- Let processing (Rendering → OCR) finish first — the menu tells you if pages aren't ready.