Floor areas measured off your drawings, not guessed at

A CAD drawing set isn't a picture of a building — it is the building, drawn to scale. So on a set like that, BidCraft no longer squints at a picture of your plan and offers you a guess. It follows the architect's own line work around the room, converts it at the scale printed in the title block, and puts the square footage on the floor tile for you.

What you'll see. On a room whose floor was measured this way, the number is just there, with Measured from the drawings under it — no tap needed, nothing waiting on you. Tap the tile and the edit sheet says the same thing, and tells you the part that matters: type over it and your number wins. Nothing re-reads a floor after you've set it.

That's different from a suggested size, which you'll still see on surfaces read off a photo or an elevation. A suggestion sits there dashed in terracotta until you take it; this is a measurement, and it behaves like one.

Where it works, and where it doesn't. It needs a real vector drawing and a scale to measure it at — the kind of set a designer or an architect issues. A scan or a photo of a plan falls back to the old read, which still shows up as a suggestion with the crop beside it. (A sheet with no scale in its title block no longer does, as long as the scale is printed under the drawing's own title or the sheet's dimensions give it away — see Floors measured on an architect's permit set, too.) If the measurement can't be trusted on a particular room, it says so instead of making something up, and that room goes back to a suggestion too.

Check it anyway on rooms with a lot of built-in casework. BidCraft measures the floor wall to wall — under the vanity, under the toilet — because that's what gets tiled. In a laundry or a mudroom with a full run of cabinets and appliances against three walls, wall-to-wall can be more floor than you'd actually tile. Those rooms are the ones worth a glance, and typing your own number over the top takes one tap.

To pick this up on a set you've already read, open the Plans card and choose Re-analyze documents.