Ducted Floor Plan v2: out of beta with multi-level, PDF upload and a much smarter scanner

The ducted floor plan workflow is out of beta. We rebuilt the extraction engine from the ground up, added native PDF upload and true multi-level designs and the whole flow is now production-grade. Same two-minute upload, dramatically more accurate.

What's New

• Out of beta. Ducted floor plan scanning + auto duct design is now a first-class feature, not a beta. Used in production by AC businesses across Australia every day.
• Multi-page PDF upload. Drop in the builder or architect's PDF directly. No more screenshotting one page at a time. Cooledge picks the right pages and stitches them together.
• True multi-level designs. Two-storey homes are first-class now. Ground and Level One get their own tabs, their own zones and their own duct layout. The take-off rolls both up automatically.
• Overlay view between levels. Toggle to see Ground and Level One stacked on the same canvas so you can check risers and stacked rooms line up. Nudge a level with the alignment handle if footprints don't match perfectly.
• Rebuilt extraction engine. Region-aware room detection, smarter scale-reference handling and a much better recovery path when the AI misses a wall. In our testing on Australian residential plans:
  • Room detection accuracy: ~78% → 89%
  • Scale auto-detect: ~60% → 85%
  • Manual touch-ups per plan: ~6 → ~1
• Droppers between levels. Auto Layout places droppers between floors and their floor-below outlets for you, so a two-storey home routes in one click just like a single-storey. Riser length is rolled into the take-off.
• Improved duct layout algorithm. Cleaner routing, smarter sizing and flex joiners auto-added on runs over 6m.
• Multi-plan image split. Upload a single image with two floor plans on it and Cooledge splits them into per-level pages with an editable crop modal.

How It Works

1. From Floor Plan, click New Floor Plan
2. Drop in a PDF, an image, or a multi-plan image — Cooledge handles the rest
3. For multi-level homes, confirm Ground vs Level One on the page picker
4. Review rooms, set the scale once (it copies across levels), assign zones
5. Hit Auto Layout on each level, or draw by hand
6. The take-off rolls every level into one supplier order

Why It Matters

The beta version got you 80% of the way. v2 gets you the last 20%: the awkward PDF that you used to screenshot, the two-storey home you used to skip, the room the AI used to miss. It's the difference between "useful for simple plans" and "this is how we quote every ducted job now".

If you tried the beta earlier this year and bounced because of an extraction issue or a multi-level plan, this is the version to come back to. We've got a 50% off first month offer running through 5th of June — already have an account? Pick a plan in Settings → Billing and enter code DUCT50 at checkout.