From contract drawings to a coordinated model — without the redraw.
Fablnx reads your contract drawing set, finds the steel, and helps you trace it into one coordinated 3D model — with the design spec, RFIs and a full material takeoff along the way, and a trail back to every sheet.
A drawing set still gets turned into a model by hand — sheet by sheet.
It arrives as a PDF.
A steel package comes in as a contract drawing set — hundreds of sheets. Pixels, not data. Nothing a model can read.
Then it's rebuilt by hand.
Every grid, column and beam is read off the sheet and re-created in a model — member by member, sheet by sheet.
And the sheets disagree.
Notes conflict, dimensions go missing, revisions clash — and it surfaces late, on the model or in the shop.
Stop redrawing. See it on your own drawings.
Software never fixed this — for three reasons.
Unstructured PDFs
Drawings are pixels, not data. There's nothing to read programmatically.
Expert reading
Which line is a beam, which note governs — it takes a trained eye, sheet by sheet.
Fragmented tools
The PDF, the model and the takeoff live in separate tools — no thread runs between them.
So the drawing gets retyped by hand, every project. Fablnx is the thread that finally runs from the sheet to the model.
Stop redrawing the drawings. Start from what the copilot already found.
Drop the contract PDF in. The copilot reads the sheets, finds the steel and detects the frame — you review, correct, and commit it to one coordinated model.
One workspace, drawings to takeoff.
The copilot reads the whole set.
Drop in the contract PDF and the copilot goes through every sheet — scanned or vector — sorts the steel structural pages from the rest, and reads the general notes into a clean AISC design spec.
Trace the frame on the drawing.
A precise 2D editor lets you place grids, columns, beams and braces right over the sheet — with the copilot detecting most of it, so you review instead of draw. Snapping and progressive unlock keep it honest.
One coordinated 3D model.
Everything you verify commits into a single model you can orbit, section, measure and color — the way a detailer expects. Export to IFC for the rest of your toolchain.
The takeoff, and the gaps.
Every member rolls up into an advance bill of material — mark, quantity, profile, grade, length and weight — exportable to CSV. Validation flags conflicts and missing info as RFIs, each one click from the exact spot on the sheet.
Drawings in. A coordinated model out — with you in the loop.
Drop the drawings
The contract PDF is the whole input. No setup, no export from another tool, no re-keying.
Read off the page
The copilot reads every sheet, sorts the steel pages, and pulls the general notes into a design spec.
Trace + coordinate
Place grids, columns and beams over the drawing — with the copilot detecting most of it — and commit them to one coordinated 3D model.
Take off + export
Roll up the material takeoff, resolve the RFIs, and export to IFC or CSV.
The whole job in one workspace.
Built the way detailers work.
“Every fact in the model traces back to the sheet it came from. You can always see where a grid, a member or a spec was read — and jump straight to it.”
“The copilot does the grunt work — reading sheets, detecting members, tallying steel. The detailer keeps the judgment, the corrections and the sign-off.”