Scan-to-CAD & Measured Drawings
Existing-condition drawings drafted from captured data — floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, sections, roof and site layouts, in whatever combination the job needs. It starts from a point cloud, and that cloud can be one we capture or one you already have.
- What it costs
- Custom scope · technical review
- Also called
- scan to CAD · measured drawings · existing condition drawings · as-built drawings · existing condition floor plans · scan to plan · point cloud to DWG
Where it earns its keep
Use it for these.
- Renovation and fit-out where the existing drawings are missing or wrong
- Teams who need plans, not a model, and should not have to buy one to get the other
- Projects that already own a point cloud and need it turned into drawings
- Documenting a building for planning, leasing or space programming
Don’t use it for this
Anything that needs a stamp. These are measured drawings of what was captured — not design documents, not permit drawings, and not a survey.
We put this on every service page because the fastest way to waste your money is to buy the impressive tool instead of the correct one. If the row above describes your job, say so on the call and we’ll point you at the right one — including when it’s cheaper than this.
Find the right one by problem →What you receive
And what it opens in.
- The agreed drawing package — the drawing types and areas selected at scope
- Drafted to the client's CAD template, layer standard and units where one is supplied
- A record of areas that were not captured or were not visible in the source data
Included every time
Formats
DWG · PDF
Format is agreed against what you do with the data next — these are the ones this service commonly delivers in, not a promise of every format on every project. Delivered to a shared project folder anyone on the job can open: no accounts, no per-seat charge, and if you leave, the record leaves with you.
The boundary
Where this scope ends.
Options on this scope
- Additional drawing types beyond the agreed package
- Additional areas or floors
- Drafting to a client template and layer standard where one is supplied
A separate Kinetic service
- 3D Laser ScanningIf you do not already have a point cloud, this is where the drawings' source data comes from.
- Mobile & Handheld ScanningThe faster capture, when the drawings cover a whole building.
- 3D ModelingThe same conditions as geometry rather than dimensioned drawings.
- Scan-to-BIMWhen the deliverable has to be a structured model instead of a drawing set.
Not something Kinetic does
- Design intent or architectural design
- Engineering drawings
- Permit drawings
- Professional surveying of any kind
- Concealed elements that were not visible to the capture
- Anything requiring a professional stamp
Where a project needs one of these, we say so and point you at someone licensed to do it.
Before we can price it
What we’d ask you.
Kinetic confirms the scope with you before anything is scheduled. None of it is a form to fill in — it is what the conversation covers.
- Which drawings do you actually need — plans, ceilings, elevations, sections, or a combination?
- Do you already have scan data, or should we capture it?
- Do you have a CAD template and layer standard we should draft to?
- What will these drawings be used for downstream?
What changes the size of the job
- Number and type of drawings
- Area and number of levels
- Level of detail and annotation required
- Geometric complexity
- Whether a client CAD standard must be matched
- Whether suitable source data already exists
- Schedule
Useful to have, none of it required to start
- A point cloud, or a request for Kinetic to capture one
- Which drawing types are wanted
- Which areas and floors
- Client CAD template, if one applies
- Layer standard
- Units
- Annotation requirements
- Dimension requirements
- File and software version requirements
- Title block requirements, if any
- How coordinates and datum should be treated
Where we run it
Markets this shows up on most.
Multifamily
Repeated floorplates and hundreds of units make interior 360 history and pre-close documentation worth more than they look. Less glamorous, rewards discipline.
Multifamily documentationAviation & transportation
Long programs, staged handovers and heavy reporting obligations. Airspace here is genuinely complex and it is planned for, not discovered on the day.
Aviation & transportation projects
What this runs with.
All services →3D Laser Scanning
Where the source data comes from, if you do not already have a cloud.
Quoted per scopeMobile & Handheld Scanning
The faster way to capture a whole building when the drawings cover all of it.
Quoted per scope3D Modeling
The same conditions as geometry instead of drawings, when something has to be seen rather than dimensioned.
Custom scope · technical reviewScan-to-BIM
When the deliverable has to be a structured model rather than a drawing set.
Quoted per scope
Tell us the job. We’ll tell you if this is the right tool for it.
Send the project — an address, a schedule, or just what you’re trying to document. A person reads it and comes back with an approach and a price.
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