Reconstruct, restore and conserve buildings and historic sites, thanks to detailed 3D scan data.

Efficiently create 3D as-built models, including ground surfaces, walls, doors and windows, columns, beams and pillars, roofs or even pipe runs in commercial and industrial buildings, to kick off the BIM process with much lower effort and more confidence and transparency. Scan complete buildings to create missing as-built documentation, such as floor plans, elevation plans or façade plans, in order to plan your architectural model or assemblies such as façade panels, isolations or solar systems. Calculate clearance measurements for tunnels, bridges or highways. Create accurate terrain models and topographical maps for civil engineering projects. * Modern CAD is more modeling than actually drawing anything the CAD handles drawing you just supply the border constraints.Generate fast, accurate volume calculations of scanned stockpiles or excavations within building or civil engineering projects. Sharing is what makes most of our design documents valuable, so use what your peers would use. There is however the question of what your peers use. Most measurements deleted to keep the small image as clear as possible. Image 2: An old quick drafting test made to keep my skills up on Illustrator specific workflow. If you really get pedantic then it suffices to say that Illustrator can not do perfect circles. Precision in Illustrator is probably ok for your purposes. Trimming lines is also slightly snappier in a CAD application, but not something you can not overcome with the shape builder tool. Image 1: Autocad (Right) numeric input and Illustrator (Left) numeric input dialog side by side comparison. Cad applications are just slightly more optimized to this, but the difference is not big, with line tool hold alt down and you get the same result.

This is just as possible in Illustrator as it in Autocad or any other CAD application. The trick to accurate drawing is to type dimensions in. This speeds up the process since you can just type measured units. Rather you would draw in 1:1 scale and then the print view would be in scale. The basic difference is that you would not draw the image in 1:100 scale in a CAD application*.

Illustrator is a perfectly viable option for a 2D CAD application (as is Inkscape), in small volumes.

Scale as built drawing software