I've done a bit of an update to my previous approach of how to get AI to read construction drawings.
I basically copied an idea from BIM
The original inspiration for this is I actually saw a study where they used AI for estimating and graded it on how well it could estimate and found that it did quantity takeoffs 100% accurately. I was incredibly surprised by this and then I found out that they'd actually given it a BIM model and a connector.
So I dug a little deeper and found that what BIM actually is a structured database
Which led me to the idea of could you actually convert your construction drawings into a structured database grouped by the physical things we were installing rather than the pages on the drawings?
Which led to this approach