SMART DRAWING PARSER
Parse what the drawing actually contains.
RebarX should not claim that ordinary OCR can understand every structural drawing. The smart workflow is for machine-readable digital drawings where text, vectors and geometry can be analysed. Raster/scanned drawings fall back to manual BBS entry.
SMART IMPORT ELIGIBLE
Machine-readable digital drawings
- Revit-exported vector PDF
- DWG / DXF CAD drawings with usable entities and text
- Vector PDF with selectable text, dimensions and linework
- Structured schedules/tables embedded as digital text
- Simple structured XLSX BBS table — direct cell extraction, not image OCR
MANUAL / ASSISTED FALLBACK
Raster or unstructured drawings
- Scanned PDF
- Photograph of a drawing
- Screenshot / flattened image
- Hand-drawn sketch
- Low-quality raster drawing without reliable geometry/text
Important: software licence status does not determine whether RebarX can parse a drawing. The key factor is whether the exported file is machine-readable and contains usable vector/text/geometry information.
Open DrawingPDF / DWG / DXF / XLSX
Read DataText + vectors
Detect RebarMarks + geometry
AssociateDims + member
Propose BBSConfidence review
Engineer VerifyAccept / correct