Clash detection from the PDF bid set — no BIM model required
Every clash tool on the market assumes you have a coordinated BIM model. Most projects never get one. Aginera registers your discipline sheets into one spatial model and finds duct-pipe-steel conflicts straight from the drawings — with evidence, not guesses.
The coordination model your project never got
Upload the bid set you already have. See the disciplines overlaid, the geometry rebuilt, and the conflicts ranked.
Why this doesn't exist anywhere else
Navisworks, Revizto and ACC Coordinate all start from the same place: somebody already built and federated a BIM model. On the projects where clashes actually hurt — tenant improvements, small commercial, fast-track bid sets — that model doesn't exist. The PDF is the single source of truth. Aginera makes the PDF enough.
Upload the bid set
One PDF, all disciplines. Aginera identifies the floor plans, mechanical, plumbing, medical gas, framing and ceiling sheets automatically.
Sheets registered
Every discipline sheet is aligned onto the architectural plan using the structural grid — with a measured registration error, not blind overlay.
Geometry rebuilt
Ducts with sizes, pipes with diameters and system identity, beam and joist envelopes, ceilings with heights — a 3D coordination model from 2D sheets.
Conflicts ranked
Crossings are checked against the space that actually exists between ceiling and structure. Findings are typed, scored and linked back to both source sheets.
Findings that survive the coordination meeting
False clash spam kills trust. Every finding carries its elevation evidence and confidence, and uncertain ones say so.
Hard clashes
Solid-on-solid conflicts where the elevation evidence is strong enough to call it — duct through beam, pipe through duct.
Clearance & fit violations
The duct fits, the pipe fits — but not both. Plenum-fit analysis flags crossings where ceiling-to-structure space cannot hold the stack.
Structural penetrations
Runs that cross beam, joist or column envelopes with no framed opening — flagged for review before they become field surprises.
Potential clashes
Crossings where the drawings do not pin the elevation down. Reported separately, never dressed up as certainties — exactly what a coordination meeting needs.
Frequently asked questions
How can you detect clashes without a BIM model?
A coordinated drawing set already contains the geometry — it is just split across sheets. Aginera reads the vector geometry inside each discipline's PDF (ducts on the mechanical plan, piping on the plumbing and medical gas plans, beams and joists on the framing plan), registers every sheet onto the architectural floor plan using the structural grid, and rebuilds one spatial coordination model. Conflicts are detected in that shared model, the way a coordination engineer would find them by overlaying sheets on a light table — but measured, ranked and traceable.
Most clash tools need Revit or IFC files. What do you need?
Just the PDF bid set — the same document every subcontractor already receives. If the PDFs were exported from CAD, Aginera reads their vector linework and layer structure directly. No Revit, no Navisworks, no IFC export, and no waiting for a BIM coordination process that most small and mid-size projects never get.
How do you handle elevations, since plans are 2D?
Honestly — and that is the core of the product. Every vertical dimension carries its evidence: drawn elevations and duct sizes are marked as drawing-explicit, ceiling heights come from the reflected ceiling plan, structure heights are derived from building sections, and anything assumed is labeled as an assumption. A conflict is only called a hard clash when the elevation evidence supports it; everything else is ranked as a potential clash with the exact reason attached. No silent guessing.
What disciplines are covered?
Architectural context (walls, rooms, ceilings), HVAC ductwork and equipment, plumbing, medical gas piping with system identity (O2, VAC, WAGD), and structural framing envelopes (beams, joists, columns). Electrical conduit joins through Aginera's routing engine, where reviewed routes participate as high-confidence geometry.
How accurate is the sheet registration?
Registration uses the structural grid bubbles that every discipline's sheets share, and reports its own error. On coordinated sets, alignment error is typically well under an inch — and the registration confidence propagates into every clash score, so a poorly aligned sheet can never quietly produce false conflicts.
What do I get out of it?
A ranked coordination report: hard clashes, clearance violations, structural penetration candidates and potential clashes — each with the two source sheets, the objects involved, their sizes, the elevation basis, and a confidence score. Every finding answers "why does Aginera say these clash?" with drawing-level evidence you can verify in seconds.
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