ON-SITE BUILDING DIGITISATION ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA

Digitise your building. From old plans, paper drawings or the building itself.

Missing plans? Outdated drawings? Only have paper copies? CADTwin helps clients across South Africa recreate existing buildings as clean digital CAD. We can digitise old plans remotely, or visit site when needed to capture the building with LiDAR and laser verification before redrawing the layout properly.

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01Review

02Capture

03Verify

04Redraw

CADTWIN SHOWCASE

01 / RETAIL CENTRE LAYOUT

Issued retail centre layout sheet over an aerial base

01Retail Centre Layout

Services and infrastructure plan of a shopping centre

02Services & Infrastructure Plan

Bank tenancy layout drawing with detail views

03Bank Tenancy Layout

04Dealership Floor Layout

Emergency evacuation plan with escape routes and legend

05Emergency Evacuation Plan

Locality plan with zoned building layout

06Locality Plan

07Proposed Floor Layout

08Accessibility Compliance Plan

Signage layout over an aerial photograph with sign photo panels

09Signage Layout

Building evacuation plan with unit layout

10Evacuation Plan

Tenancy partition layout with locality panels

11Tenancy Partition Layout

Site photo record sheet with container installation photos

12Site Photo Record

Across South Africa Old Plans / No Plans LiDAR + Laser Verification CAD Floor Layouts & Drawing Sets Optional CADTwin Pro

START WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

Your first goal is usually simple: get the building digitised properly.

Most clients are not starting with software. They are starting with a real building and a documentation problem: no usable plans, outdated layouts, or old paper drawings that are no longer dependable. CADTwin solves that first, then leaves the door open for a smarter platform later if and when you need it.

No usable plans

The building exists, but there is no dependable digital record to work from.

Outdated layouts

The building has changed over time, but the old plans no longer match what is actually on site.

Paper, scans or PDFs

The only surviving record is a hard copy or scanned plan that now needs to become structured CAD.

SCAN TO CAD WORKFLOW

The CAD is built directly from the captured space.

This is a completed CADTwin project, shown end to end. Drag the slider to move from the live aerial view of the centre, through the LiDAR-style capture sweep, to the structured CAD site plan produced from it — and on to the presentation plan issued from that same CAD. Every stage is the same site, aligned view for view.

Live aerial view used as the spatial reference LiDAR-style capture reveals the site geometry Structured CAD site plan produced from the capture Presentation plan issued from the same CAD base

01 · Aerial capture — LiDAR scan

Aerial + LiDAR

CAD → Presentation

Aerial photograph

Issued layout sheet

The same centre as an issued drawing: the clean aerial base on the left, and the complete layout sheet — every shop, annotation, legend and title block — drawn over it on the right.

Capture the real building

Use the captured building view as the starting point for reliable spatial interpretation.

Scan and verify

Use LiDAR-style capture and verification so the model is based on what is actually there.

Deliver dependable CAD output

Generate clean CAD linework and issue-ready documentation that can support plan sheets, verification and future digital-twin workflows.

PLANS & DELIVERABLES

From a verified building to the drawing you actually need.

CADTwin can produce a wide range of practical property, leasing, facilities and design drawings. The deliverable can remain a conventional CAD/PDF drawing set, or become the foundation for an interactive CADTwin Pro environment later.

Lease Plans

Clear tenant, suite and leasable-area plans for property management, leasing discussions and record keeping.

Existing Floor Layouts

Existing-condition floor plans created from current plans, site verification, LiDAR capture and measurement.

As-Built Drawings

Updated drawings representing the building and layout as it exists following construction, alterations or fit-out.

Proposed Floor Layouts & Planning

Concept layouts for reconfiguration, circulation, new spaces, tenant changes and better use of existing floor area.

Office Design & Fit-Out Layouts

Workspace planning, furniture zones, meeting areas, circulation and practical office-layout concepts.

3D Layouts & Models

Three-dimensional property, interior and spatial models to help clients understand spaces beyond conventional plans.

Emergency Evacuation Plans

Clear floor-based evacuation diagrams showing routes, exits, key safety information and orientation points.

Area & Leasable-Space Plans

Plans supporting area schedules, space allocation, occupancy, leasable-area analysis and property reporting.

Tenant / Shop Fit-Out Plans

Retail and commercial layouts showing tenant spaces, shopfront relationships, internal planning and fit-out intent.

Furniture & Workspace Layouts

Furniture, workstation, seating and circulation layouts for offices, retail spaces and shared facilities.

Site, Locality & Property Layouts

Site-level drawings showing buildings, access, parking, external features, locality and property context.

Asset & Services Location Plans

Spatial drawings identifying equipment, service points, facilities assets and maintenance-related locations.

Also available: interior elevations and sections, CAD redraws from paper/PDF plans, concept layouts, space-allocation drawings, revision updates and customised drawing packages for specific property or facilities-management requirements.

ONE FOUNDATION. TWO LEVELS.

Start simple.
Upgrade when it makes sense.

CADTwin does not force a property manager into a complex platform just because they need drawings. Your CAD remains useful on its own. The Pro layer is there when you want the plans to become operational.

CAD FOUNDATION

Professional digital CAD without the complexity.

Ideal when your immediate requirement is to replace paper plans, recreate missing drawings, verify existing layouts or establish a clean digital drawing archive.

DWG drawing set PDF issue drawings Structured layers Floor layouts Area schedules Revision-ready archive

Discuss a CAD project →

OPTIONAL UPGRADE

When CAD becomes CADTwin Pro.

Your drawings can become the front end to a live building information system — connecting spaces, leases, assets, documents, maintenance and spatial data to the floor plan itself.

CADTwin Pro previewPROPERTY / LEASE / MAP / DOCUMENTS

Interactive dashboard preview aligned to the CADTwin Pro vision

FTD

CADTwin Pro dashboard Desktop interface preview

On mobile, the full desktop dashboard is scaled to show the complete interface instead of forcing the dashboard into a cramped phone layout.

Interactive Floor Plans

Click a room, office, shop, floor or asset directly on the plan to view and update its information.

CAD + GIS Mapping

Connect internal floor plans to site maps, external assets and broader geographic information.

Property Dashboards

See occupancy, areas, lease status, maintenance priorities and document information at a glance.

Living Building Data

Move beyond static drawings with searchable, filterable information linked to the physical space.

BUILT FOR EXISTING PROPERTY

Especially useful where the building exists, but the information does not.

CADTwin is suited to property portfolios where plans are incomplete, outdated, scattered between formats or disconnected from the operational information used to manage the building.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

Office buildings & business parks

Existing-condition plans, leasable areas, occupancy, lease information and maintenance-linked spaces.

RETAIL

Shopping centres

Shop layouts, tenant plans, vacancies, lease expiry visibility and building assets.

REGIONAL RETAIL

Regional shopping plazas

Urban and regional shopping plazas where existing plans, retail layouts and property information need to be organised digitally.

LEGACY ARCHIVES

Paper-heavy portfolios

Bring decades of plans into a consistent, searchable and updateable digital environment.

THE CADTWIN WORKFLOW

From an existing building or old plans, to the digital record you need.

INPUT

Review what exists

We review the property information you already have, whether that is paper plans, PDFs, old CAD or simply the building itself.

CAPTURE

Capture & verify

Where needed, we visit the property, capture the building with LiDAR and check key dimensions with laser verification.

RECREATE

Redraw the building

We recreate the layout as clean digital CAD ready for issue, revision, leasing, planning and day-to-day building use.

OPTIONAL PRO

Upgrade later

If required, the same drawings can later become CADTwin Pro with interactive plans, dashboards and spatial intelligence.

You do not need to start with complicated software.
You need to start by getting the building digitised properly.

DISCUSS YOUR BUILDING OR PLAN ARCHIVE

Start with the drawings.
Build from there.

Whether you have boxes of old paper plans, scanned PDFs, incomplete CAD or a building that was never properly documented, CADTwin can establish the digital base first — without forcing you into the Pro platform.

Paper plans → CAD Existing building → CAD CAD → Interactive Pro platform

Project assessment We can start from old plans, scanned drawings or the physical building itself.

Name / Company Email Telephone Property / Building name Town / City Province What best describes the current situation? What are you starting with?

What do you need? On-site building digitisation Paper / PDF plan digitisation Existing floor layouts / as-builts Lease / area plans Proposed layouts / office planning Emergency evacuation plans 3D layouts / models CADTwin Pro platform Not sure yet

Project overview

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