Horezmi vs FloorScan

What FloorScan is good at

FloorScan takes a floor plan as a PDF or an image and finds the rooms, walls, doors and windows. It works out areas and perimeters, tells load-bearing walls from partitions, and turns that into quantities you can export to Excel and build a quote from. Around this it has a manual survey tool, a facade module, site tracking and team features.

If your day is measuring plans for estimates, that is a focused, well-made set of tools, and Horezmi does not try to replace it.

Where it stops

Everything in FloorScan starts from a floor plan. We uploaded a dimensioned drawing of a machine part, and it told us the file did not look like a floor plan and suggested measuring it by hand. Its technical drawing module is a blank sheet to draw on yourself, with no AI reading.

So for a part, a steel tank, a site plan, a contour for CNC cutting or a hand sketch of something other than rooms, it is not the tool.

What Horezmi does differently

Horezmi reads the drawing and draws it again in CAD: walls as walls, dimensions as real dimension objects, everything on its own layer at real scale. You get a DWG, a DXF, a PDF sheet to scale and a 3D model. The same goes for a house plan, a part in isometric, a tank, a site plan or a sketch on paper, and you can also just describe what you need in words.

Changes are made in plain language, «make the kitchen 4 m wide», or by clicking an object and typing a number. For CNC work it gives contours and a G-code program.

One plan, both tools

We gave both tools the same picture: a five-room house from a 1950s plan catalogue, drawn in perspective, with the room sizes written on it. It is a hard case on purpose. A lot of old plans people want in CAD look like this, not like a clean PDF from an architect.

FloorScan, with automatic scale (it rated its own confidence in the scale at 10%), found 1 door, 1 window and 0.5 m² of living area. To be fair to it, FloorScan is made for flat 2D plans and says the scale should be checked by hand. Horezmi read the five rooms, the hall and the bath with their sizes and drew a dimensioned plan, plus a 3D model of the house.

Side by side

• Floor plan from a scan, photo or PDF: both read it. FloorScan gives quantities and a redrawn plan; Horezmi gives a layered DWG, a PDF sheet and 3D.
• Quantity takeoff and quotes: FloorScan is built for it. Horezmi gives a room schedule and a bill of quantities, but it is not an estimating tool.
• Machine parts, tanks, site plans, CNC contours: Horezmi reads them. FloorScan expects a floor plan.
• Hand sketch or a description in words: Horezmi works from either. FloorScan turns a sketch of a floor plan into a plan.
• Editing: Horezmi takes changes in plain words. FloorScan has an editor where you change things by hand.
• 3D model: both; FloorScan shows it on its paid tiers. G-code for CNC: Horezmi only.
• Team work and branding: FloorScan has them. Horezmi is for one person at a time.
• How you pay: FloorScan is a monthly subscription with a free plan and a trial, and DWG export sits on a higher tier. Horezmi has no subscription: you pay per drawing from a balance, with $5 free when you sign in.

Which one to pick

Pick FloorScan if you price construction work from floor plans every week and want areas, perimeters and quotes in one place, with your team.

Pick Horezmi if what you need at the end is an editable DWG, whether the drawing is a house, a part or a tank, and you would rather pay per drawing than per month. Either way, check the dimensions of an AI drawing before anything gets built from it.

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