What to expect from a conversion
Every release is measured before it ships. This page says what that measurement covers, what it does not, and how you find out on your own drawings. It states outcomes per input route — which classes come across, which do not — rather than a headline percentage, because a percentage measured on our own buildings would tell you nothing about yours. Read the caveat first: it is the most important thing here.
What comes across
What a conversion recovers depends on what the drawings physically contain, not on how hard it tries. The two routes carry different information, and Structura says which is which before you send anything.
Plans and elevations
The route the product was built for. Walls and their openings come off the plan, storey heights off the elevations, and rooms out of the regions the walls actually close — with a name and number where the sheet labels them. A pitched roof is not something a plan can show, so this route does not claim one: a flat roof plate is modelled as a slab, and anything above it is not invented.
- Walls
- Doors
- Windows
- Columns
- Stairs
- Floor slabs
- Rooms
- Pitched roofs
3D mesh export
A model that was built in 3D rather than drawn in 2D. The envelope comes across well, including the pitched roof the plans route cannot see. The detail does not: columns and stairs are not reconstructed, and a window painted onto a surface rather than modelled as a hole cannot be found as one. Rooms need interior walls a mesh usually does not carry, so they are not attempted.
- Walls
- Floor slabs
- Pitched roofs
- Some openings
- Columns
- Stairs
- Rooms
- What it cannot recover, it flags
A class this release does not reconstruct on your route is recorded as not reconstructed, against the building, in the register that ships with the model. It is never approximated into something else.
- What it is unsure about, it queues
Anything Structura is not confident in is flagged for review before the model is signed off, shown beside a crop of the drawing it came from, and cleared by a person — not by the software.
- What the drawing does not say, it writes down
Every default applied to fill a gap is recorded with its scope and what it affects, and delivered with the model. You read it; you do not have to trust it.
The sample on the deliverable page is one of these conversions you can open: 6 storeys, 265 elements and 54 rooms from 8 sheets. Everything the file claims is in the file.
The full quality report
Every release is measured, per element class and per input route, before it ships — what was recovered, what was missed, and the dimensional deviation observed. That report is available under NDA rather than published, along with a description of the corpus it was measured on and the fact that the corpus is synthetic.
If you are writing a specification and need a quality position you can cite, ask for it on the trial form — the specification pack already words the clause that requires one per release.
A per-class figure measured on buildings we generated ourselves reads as a promise about your drawings, and it is not one. Published beside the method it is honest; published alone it is marketing. So it goes to the people who have to cite it, with the caveat attached, and the public page keeps the caveat instead of the number.