RecipesDraw and lay out
Can AI redraw a floor plan from a screenshot or PDF in AutoCAD?
Yes, as a redraw, not a trace. Attach the image or PDF with the paperclip in the cadssistant palette and type "Reproduce this floor plan at 1 unit = 1 cm: outer wall, partitions, desks, furniture and the room labels." It reads the plan, fixes the scale from a dimension or a stated room area, draws the outer wall and partitions first, defines each repeated item (desk, chair, table) as a block and places the copies, then adds the room names and areas as text, one batch per pass. Dimensions it cannot read it estimates and says so; check those before you build on them.
Checked 2026-10-30 · one of the tasks cadssistant's models are benchmarked on
Reproduce this office floor plan as an AutoCAD drawing at full scale (1 drawing unit = 1 cm). Draw the outer wall and the room partitions, lay out the desks in the open-plan zone, place the furniture, and add the room name and area labels exactly as they appear on the plan.
What cadssistant does
- Attach the PNG, JPG or PDF with the paperclip (or paste it) and send the prompt with the scale.
- It fixes scale and origin from a dimension, a stated area or the overall extents, and states that assumption first.
- Walls and partitions go down first on a wall layer; repeated furniture becomes blocks placed as inserts on a furniture layer; labels and areas as text on an annotation layer (A-WALL, A-FURN, A-ANNO unless you name them), each pass in one step so the plan appears in stages.
- The reply lists what it estimated. Measure one known wall to check the scale.
Good to know
- A whole floor is a job for Heavy mode on the Max plan, which gives the assistant more room to deliberate. In limited mode after the trial, the palette warns that replicating a plan from an image needs a stronger model.
More in draw and lay out
Command: CADSSISTANT
Works in AutoCAD 2024 and newer on Windows. Free trial, no card, no API key.
Get cadssistant