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Tornado DWG Scanner

Batch-scans a folder of AutoCAD drawings and reports what is inside every file.

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Tornado DWG Scanner

The problem

Drafting teams inherit folders of thousands of DWGs with no fast way to see what is really inside them: DWG version, layer bloat, missing xrefs, title-block revisions, edit time. So audits and cleanups are slow, manual and error-prone.

The approach

  • Built a Windows scanner that drives AutoCAD's own engine, so every drawing is read the way AutoCAD reads it, several files at a time.
  • A report chain of close to 80 checks in 12 categories, built per recipe so each run only does the work it needs: DWG version, layers, blocks, xrefs, title-block attributes and more.
  • A sortable results grid with flag rules, Excel/CSV/JSON export and a file-list handoff to Hurricane, plus offline licensing and a self-serve purchase flow.

The outcome

  • A sister product to Hurricane: the same AutoCAD-automation DNA aimed at auditing and understanding drawings instead of editing them.
  • Live commercial product with a real AutoCAD scan engine running against thousands of production drawings.
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