PlanTracer enables conversion of sketches, raster or CAD floor plans, containing primitives – lines, circles, arcs and more, into 3D ADT models with walls, columns, windows, doors, etc. The program can process any 2D floor plan loaded in AutoCAD or ADT. You can use DWG/DXF files or scanned raster drawings. PlanTracer breathes new life into old floor plans!

PlanTracer Creates Reliable Intelligent Models to Use in Your AEC Software
In Autodesk's Architectural Desktop® as in any other architectural software building blocks are not simple geometrical primitives but "construction elements" like walls, windows, doors and more. To use old floor plans in 3D environments you now need to redraw 2D CAD files, scanned drawings or sketches manually. PlanTracer will convert such plans automatically, multiplying your efficiency in this phase. Moreover, you can create and share within company customized libraries of ADT objects and easily 'refurnish' floor plans. Jump into the third dimension automatically!

PlanTracer Conversion
The conversion of 2D drawings into 3D models is based on the unique recognition algorithms of arbitrary objects by drawing patterns. It doesn't matter how the initial plans were created and there are no special requirements to the quality of the drawings. You need just seconds to convert a floor plan into the corresponding full featured model: Step 1 Open the initial image (sketch, scanned raster file, vector file created from automatic raster to vector conversion or a drawing created in AutoCAD® or any 2D CAD system) Step 2 Create (open) a Template Library. This establishes the link between the ADT 'intellectual' object and one or more drawing patterns from the initial image. Once created, the Template Library can be used to process any plans containing similar objects Step 3 Click the "Auto Recognizing" button in the PlanTracer toolbar. Finally, use PlanTracer's interactive mode to complete recognition of inconsistencies or poor quality objects. PlanTracer creates 3D models with just one click.

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Save Time with your Facilities Management
PlanTracer uses its intelligent analysis of 2D drawings to speed up the collection of data from drawings for Facilities Management. This data is essential for establishing rents, maintenance plans and so on. For most people, using 2D floor plans, this is a time-consuming task, as the FM database has to be prepared manually -- each item or object, and the areas of rooms, have to be counted and added to the inventory. PlanTracer's capabilities are naturally suited to handling this task for you. Using PlanTracer to convert the 2D drawings into models that contain intelligent objects automatically adds all of the information that FM requires. It works well for Facilities Management on two levels: (1) creating customized Template Libraries within a company enables them to create re-usable standards within the company -- all drawings can be transformed into FM models using the same definitions; (2) the software also allows room and flat definitions to be established -- for creating individual inventories, which can be edited and updated. Obtaining relevant FM information from individual flats, or the whole building, is accomplished with a single 'click'.

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