ArchiCAD is great—until you receive blueprints from 1985. 💀

[Vojtech Slavik]

I was stuck at my desk until midnight again yesterday. We all know how well exports and Xrefs work in ArchiCAD, but that ends the moment a client sends you a "dead" scanned image from the archives or a hand-drawn plan.

I’m tired of burning hours manually tracing rasters because no current tool can properly vectorize them for a clean BIM workflow. It makes no sense that in the age of advanced AI, we’re still doing this manually like it’s the 1900s.

I’m seriously considering developing a custom solution/add-on to fix this once and for all. I’d love to get your expert insight – it takes max. 1-2 minutes:

link : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1quyW04z4KUqLNh2-vprnecr3Ov7-0_QV-96HeA0HUuc/edit 

 

[Pavel_N]

Can you please give me tips on AI models that can do this? I imagine the author's idea more as creating a professional working tool that does not require patience with AI. A plug-in adapted as much as possible for the BIM/CAD environment (layers, pens, curve optimization, built directly into AC), so that the user can find their preset and then this conversion is as close as possible to one-click. I have no doubt that AI will be able to do all this, but I don't know if it is so far that the outputs are usable without further work for the CAD world?

You are absolutely right that AI inside Archicad would be the ideal platform for these things.