Question 1

What is CivilOS?

Accepted Answer

CivilOS (thecivil.site) is an AI-native platform for civil engineers that generates conceptual house plans (PDF and AutoCAD DXF), IS-code BOQs and cost estimates, performs AI quantity takeoff from drawings, and answers engineering questions.

Question 2

Can CivilOS create a house plan and AutoCAD drawing?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Enter your plot size, rooms and preferences and CivilOS produces a scaled conceptual floor plan with doors, windows and furniture, exportable as a professional A4-A1 PDF drawing sheet or an AutoCAD DXF file.

Question 3

Does CivilOS support CPWD and State PWD rates?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can use built-in sample CPWD and Rajasthan PWD rates, edit them, or upload your own BSR schedule as Excel, PDF or image to update the rate table.

Question 4

Can CivilOS make a Bar Bending Schedule (BBS)?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The BBS module produces a running-bill steel measurement abstract per IS 456, IS 2502 / SP 34 and IS 13920 — cutting lengths, laps, extra bars and stirrup zones, each row with its own checkable formula — exportable to Excel.

Question 5

What is IndoCAD?

Accepted Answer

IndoCAD is CivilOS's free browser-based 2D CAD editor — an AutoCAD-style drafter with a real command line, AutoCAD command aliases, snaps, dimensions, hatching, blocks and DXF export that opens in every AutoCAD since 1992.

Question 6

Is CivilOS free?

Accepted Answer

Yes — CivilOS runs free in your browser: plans, IndoCAD, BIM Studio, BBS, BOQ estimation, GIS, scheduler and QA/QC registers, with AI features subject to fair-use limits.