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Generate Locations From Drawings

  1. Last updated
    Feb 24, 2025
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This experience is available in Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand.

Objective

Use Procore's enhanced AI-powered Locations feature to automatically generate a tiered list of locations from your project's architectural drawings.

Background

Often, a list of locations for a project is tiered. Tiered locations give users the ability to link different Procore objects (e.g., RFIs, Submittals, and more) to specific locations on a job site. This helps project team members to pinpoint the exact location(s) on a job site where a defect was observed, where equipment will be installed, or where a project change order occurred.

Examples
Let's say your project includes the construction of a parking lot. You might use a location structure like this:

Parking Lot A > Ground Floor > East
Parking Lot A > Ground Floor > West
Parking Lot A > Level Two > East
Parking Lot A > Level Two > West

Procore's Locations feature allows you to automatically generate this list from your project's architectural drawings.

Things to Consider

  • Required User Permissions:
  • Additional Information: 
    • Locations must be published to be visible to users with 'Read Only' or 'Standard' level permissions who do not also have the 'Manage Locations' granular permission. Draft locations are only visible to users with 'Admin' level permissions.
    • You can generate locations only from drawings where the discipline is set to 'Architectural'. See Configure Default Drawing Disciplines.

Steps

  1. Navigate to the Drawings tool.
  2. Click Create Location Hierarchy.
  3. Select the drawings you want to use to create your list of locations.
  4. Click Submit for Extraction.
    A tile appears in the side menu panel to show the progress of your location extraction.
  5. If prompted, click Review Drawings.
    Note: This feature was built to extract locations for Architectural floor plans. If you want to create locations for Architectural drawings without a floor plan, keep the checkbox marked for the drawing, and Procore will generate a placeholder parent location for you to manually manage locations and boundaries.
    1. Clear the checkbox for drawings you wish to NOT extract locations.
    2. Click Continue Location Extraction.
  6. Once processing is complete, click Review Locations.
    Locations are listed alongside an image of the associated drawing. Check the boundaries shown in the overlay on top of your drawings. Modify the boundaries if needed by clicking the vertical ellipsis icon-ellipsis-vertical.png . Click Edit, and select Boundary. Click and drag the points around the boundary to reconfigure it.
    move-boundary.png
  7. After review, click Save as Draft or Publish Locations.