Drawings to BIM
Recognising walls, doors, windows and staircases on 2D drawings and producing a structured BIM model exported to IFC.
Architecture & Construction
AI and software for architecture and construction
Less tracing and searching, more designing and building.
We built ArchiML, which reads 2D architectural drawings and produces structured BIM models with walls, doors, windows and staircases. The same skills — reading drawings, documents and images — apply across the whole building lifecycle.
Built for practices that live in drawings and documents.
Architecture and construction run on documents that computers struggle to read: PDF and paper plans, scanned specifications, site photos and email threads. Teams spend days redrawing old plans before a renovation, searching specifications for a clause, or checking progress by walking the site.
We use computer vision and language models to turn those documents into structured data — with a person checking the result against the real building. The goal is to remove the tracing and the searching, never the professional judgement.
Architecture & Construction
What we build
Specification & document search
An assistant that answers questions across specifications, standards and project documents, citing the page it used.
Take-off assistance
Counting and measuring elements on drawings to speed up quantity take-off and early cost estimates.
Site photo analysis
Computer vision on site photos to track progress, spot missing elements or check safety equipment.
Project & client portals
Web and mobile tools where clients, contractors and consultants share drawings, approvals and progress.
BIM data pipelines
Extracting schedules and quantities from IFC models into the spreadsheets and systems your team already uses.
Who we work with
Architecture practices
Faster starting points for renovation and survey work.
Engineering & surveying firms
Structured models and data from legacy drawings.
Developers & contractors
Document search, take-off help and site progress tracking.
Facility management
Up-to-date building models from the plans you already hold.
Why MLMind
Why teams choose us
01A shipped drawing-to-BIM product
ArchiML is our own product: we know how messy real drawings are and where recognition needs a human check.
02Open formats
Output in IFC and other open formats, so results work in the BIM tools your team already uses.
03Human in the loop
Every automated step is reviewable and correctable before it becomes part of a model or a report.
04Prototype on your drawings
We test on a sample of your own drawings first, so you see real results before committing.
What changes for you
- 01Days of tracing removedA structured starting model generated from existing drawings instead of redrawn by hand.
- 02Clauses found in secondsSpecification questions answered with the exact page and section.
- 03Earlier cost estimatesQuantities from drawings available sooner in the project.
- 04Progress you can seeSite status from photos rather than from memory and phone calls.
Frequently asked questions
Which drawing formats can be converted?
PDF and image scans of 2D plans, and DWG drawings. Clean vector drawings give the best results; scans work too, with more checking needed.
How accurate is automatic BIM conversion?
It depends on drawing quality. We measure it on a sample of your own drawings before you commit, and the workflow always includes a human review step before a model is used.
Which BIM tools does the output work with?
The models are exported as IFC, the open BIM standard, which Revit, ArchiCAD and most other BIM tools can import.
Next step
Tell us what you want to build.
A free 30-minute consultation with an engineer — no obligation, reply within one business day.
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