FeaturePro feature

Turn a floor plan image, or a photo of a sketch, into editable walls

Try it free, no sign-up

Upload a floor plan, a scan, or a phone photo of a sketch on paper, and Strucit traces the walls, doors and windows for you, in your browser, ready to place equipment on.

How it works

  1. Import the plan as the reference image: a PNG, JPEG or WebP of a CAD export, a scan, a photo from your phone, or a PDF (pick the page if it has several).
  2. Calibrate the scale. Draw a line over a wall you know the length of, so every detected wall comes out at real size. Detection asks for this first.
  3. Optionally draw a detection area around the plan to skip title blocks, legends and handwritten notes.
  4. Click Auto-Detect Walls. Walls, doors and windows appear as normal Strucit objects on top of the image.
  5. Fix what’s off. Drag wall ends, delete extras, add what’s missing. Then hide the image or keep it underneath as a reference.

Drawing styles it reads

Strucit doesn’t use one detector for everything. It looks at the pixels and picks a model for the drawing style:

Style What it looks like Doors and windows
Solid walls CAD exports and scans where each wall is a dark band Yes
Hollow walls Each wall drawn as two thin lines with white in between Yes
Marker sketch Phone photo of a thick, re-traced marker drawing, uneven light Yes
Pen sketch Phone photo of a thin freehand pen or pencil plan, rooms labeled by hand Walls only

TP-Link Omada floor-plan reports have their own importer: see Omada import.

Runs in your browser

Detection runs on your device, in a background worker. Your plan isn’t sent to an AI service, which matters when the drawing is a client’s building. It also means it works on a plan you can’t or shouldn’t upload anywhere.

Free and Pro

Wall detection is a Pro feature. On the free plan you can still upload the image as a reference and trace the walls by hand with the wall tool.

What it doesn’t do

  • It reads the drawing as pixels: a PDF is rendered one page at a time, and vector layers aren’t read as CAD geometry.
  • It doesn’t read room names, dimensions or text.
  • One image is one floor.
  • Photos taken at a steep angle, heavy shadows and walls that don’t meet lower the accuracy. Straight-on, evenly lit photos work best.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of drawings does it read?

CAD exports and scans with solid black walls, plans drawn with hollow walls (two thin lines per wall), phone photos of marker sketches, and phone photos of thin pen or pencil sketches. Strucit looks at the image and picks the right detector for the drawing style.

Is my floor plan uploaded to an AI service?

No. Detection runs in your browser. The image is not sent to an AI service or to our servers to be traced.

Does it detect doors and windows too?

Yes, for scanned, CAD and marker-sketch plans. For thin pen sketches it traces the walls only; add doors and windows by hand.

Can I detect only part of the image?

Yes. Draw a detection area around the plan to leave out title blocks, legends and notes.

How accurate is it?

Good enough to start from, not a survey drawing. Expect to fix a few walls by hand, especially on photos taken at an angle or sketches with walls that don't meet. Setting the scale correctly first makes a big difference.

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See it on your own floor plan

Open Strucit in your browser and start drawing. No account needed to try it.

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