Robot& CAD

Challenge

Large amount of routine work is performed while preparing technical assignment for designers of major repairs or construction of standard buildings. For example placement of equipment in rooms according to industry standards. When there are many buildings and their plans are similar, design staff’s eye becomes blurred, which leads to large number of errors, increases the number of iterations of the exchange of construction documentation between customer and designers.

Task

To automate the formation of technical specifications for designers, avoiding monotonous work, speeding up creation and reducing errors in the final technical specifications.

Solution

Robot& team developed an AI-based solution that generates technical specifications for designers based on a building plan. The customer uploads building plan in CAD format and receives technical specifications in the following format:

Building plan (CAD file) with equipment automatically distributed among rooms according to industry standard: WiFi access points, SIP phones, RJ-45/USB/HDMI sockets.
XLSX file with a list of hardware needed to equip this building. This information is immediately used for budgeting and planning the purchase of equipment.

Technologies used
Python (fastAPI)
angular & svelte for front-end
PyTorch
Docker
Ready-to-use AI model for semantic analysis (SBERT)

What's under the hood

Parsing and saving CAD files

Parsing of room explication

AI model of semantic analysis for classifying rooms

Equipment distribution algorithms in accordance with the industry standard. Requirements for equipping rooms with this or that equipment are applied to it depending on the class of the premises.

Export to XLSX format of a complete list of equipment for budgeting, planning purchases and setting tasks for designers.