INK TO BRICK vs Coohom: interiors platform or structural handoff?

Choose INK TO BRICK when someone outside the platform needs the building itself as a file: Coohom’s own help center says it does not support exporting the whole model. Coohom is stronger when materials, lighting, interiors and a drawing set are the deliverable.[3][6]

INK TO BRICKReviewed October 6, 2026

Choose INK TO BRICK if

Reconstruct a conceptual model from the source plan, develop furnishing and finish options, generate an image tied to its exact revision, publish explorable 3D and use a 20-format export library with access depending on the plan.[6]

Choose Coohom if

Automatic wall, door and window recognition from a CAD file, PDF or image, deep interior materials and lighting, 360 panoramas and 720 virtual tours, and drawing sets that Elite users export as CAD, PDF or JPG.[1][5][2]

Practise comparing two design optionsKeep openings fixed. Open Design options, choose New option, move the furniture, then use Compare options and Add comment. Nothing is sent to a client; options and review stay in this browser. No account needed. See your home in 3D before you pay; editing it needs a plan. This practice demonstrates manual editing; it is not a reconstruction benchmark or an authenticated export trial.

Try the client living room Use my own floor plan

Task by task

Your taskINK TO BRICKCoohom

Compare pricePlans for your home: Home $6.99, Home Max $19.99 and Plural $39 a month. Plans for work: Core $39, Pro $69 and Team $149 a month. Private editing and basic exports included.[8]A free entry is advertised. The current pricing page did not provide a reliably readable numerical paid price in this review. Request a region-specific checkout quote and confirm whether AIHom benefits are separate.[5][4]

Continue in another toolSeven 3D formats on any plan (GLB, glTF, OBJ, COLLADA, STL, 3MF and USDZ), SKP, IFC and STEP with Pro and Team, with JSON, CSV and XLSX room data.[6]Its export help says Coohom currently does not support exporting the whole model, so the documented handoff is drawings, images and quotation lists.[3]

Start from an existing drawingUpload a PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, or DXF up to 25 MiB. Select the PDF pages and crops in the local preparation workspace first. Optional reference measurements help interpret scale; check the reported status and two independent dimensions after reconstruction.[8]Uploading a CAD floor plan file or a PDF, PNG or JPG image automatically identifies and generates walls, doors and windows; you set scale from a known length or from an expected building area.[1]

Trace the plan yourselfStart from automatic reconstruction and correct conceptual walls and openings with direct manual controls on the same canvas; keep the drawing as reference.Clear the Auto Generate Floorplan option and draw the plan over the uploaded image as a basemap.[1]

Produce a drawing setEvery plan includes default SVG/PDF drawings. Pro and Team add layer, paper, and scale controls plus DXF and AC1032 DWG drawings. These are conceptual 2D plans, not a construction set.[6][8]Construction drawings export as CAD, PDF, JPG or all three at once, and floor plan drawings download as an image or PDF. The help article lists the workflow for Elite users.[2]

Send the space to a clientAn intentionally public project opens without a viewer account. Input and Normalized floor plan images stay private unless you explicitly include them in a published release. It is a public showcase, not private client sharing.[7][6]Its pricing FAQ describes photoreal 360 panoramas, immersive 720 virtual tours and embedding a design in your own website.[5]

See the editing workflow

For an interior proposal, compare the furniture footprint and the surface you can actually change. The chair placement loop and material selection below show those two operations in the INK TO BRICK editor.

The demonstrations use native elements in the sample duplex authored in INK TO BRICK.

Placing and arranging

Place, turn, select, move, copy and delete pieces, and build kitchen runs and shelves along a wall.

A mid-century lounge chair picked from the furniture list rides the cursor across the duplex’s living room in 3D, with distance guides to the walls, outlined red where the spot is taken and green where it fits, while the placement card shows the chosen chair, the rotation keys and Cancel placement. — Earlier interface capture. Pick a piece and it follows the cursor; click to place it.

See the steps in the manual

Paint and finishes

Paint walls, floors and furniture from the material library, make your own materials, and apply catalog finishes to a room or the whole home.

Paint mode with Soft White selected in the material library and a wall beside the duplex’s kitchen outlined under the cursor. — Earlier interface capture. The surface under the cursor is the one the next click paints.

See the steps in the manual

Recognition is comparable, so test it on your drawing

Coohom accepts a CAD floor plan file or a PDF, PNG or JPG image, identifies walls, doors and windows, and asks for a known length or an expected building area to fix scale. It also offers a recognition range, rotation, and cleanup for watermarks, backgrounds, creases and perspective distortion, and it falls back to manual tracing when you clear Auto Generate Floorplan. Recognition alone is therefore not a reason to choose either tool.[1]

INK TO BRICK asks for the same kind of input, a PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG or DXF, plus optional property context and up to 30 reference measurements. Without a known dimension the model stays conceptual and its absolute scale is unresolved. Check a second known length after conversion in whichever tool you pick, and look for missed windows, blocked doorways and rooms joined across a wall.[8]

Choose Coohom when interiors and presentation are the job

Coohom is built around interior work: materials and finishes, lighting, branded content on its paid plans, kitchen, bath and custom furniture tools with a quotation list, photoreal 360 panoramas and 720 virtual tours. If your deliverable is a furnished interior with a drawing set for the trades, that ecosystem is doing the work you need.[5][3]

INK TO BRICK works on a smaller surface: reconstruct the shell from a plan, save furniture and finish options against a locked existing-conditions revision, generate an image from the view you framed and publish an explorable model. Choose it when the reconstruction and the file that leaves the project matter more than catalog depth.[7]

A drawing set is not a model file

Coohom’s export help lists floor plans, gallery images, construction drawings in CAD, PDF or JPG for Elite users, and quotation lists in DOCX, XLSX or PDF for its enterprise tools. The same help center states that Coohom currently does not support exporting the whole model. A CAD drawing answers a documentation request; it does not give a visualization or BIM specialist the geometry.[2][3]

INK TO BRICK exports 20 formats from a saved revision: SVG and PDF plans, seven 3D models, JSON, CSV and XLSX data and PNG, JPEG or WebP images on any plan; DXF, DWG and SKP, IFC and STEP with Pro and Team. IFC carries rooms, walls, openings and properties rather than a complete engineering model, and STEP carries faceted surfaces without parametric history. Send a sample to the recipient before you commit the project.[6]

Confirm the plan and final quote

Coohom’s current pricing page did not provide a reliably readable numerical paid price on October 6, 2026. Request a quote for the region, team seats and required export permissions. Check AIHom billing separately rather than assuming all benefits carry across products.[5][4]

INK TO BRICK plans start at $6.99 a month for Home; Home Max is $19.99, Plural $39, Core $39, Pro $69 and Team $149 a month. Private manual planning and basic exports are included; photos and AI layouts use monthly credits. Compare the finished task and required exports.[8]

Review the evidence, then try your source

Check a wall or opening the rendering could hide, not just the final picture. The Isla de Pascua story combines original SketchUp and plan dimensions with MCP/AI refinement using photographs and video; it is a visual interpretation. The duplex is an authored sample demonstrating editor and presentation work, not proof of automatic reconstruction. Use these examples to choose the review you need to perform on your own drawing.[9][10]

Try your clearest one-floor plan. You see your home in 3D before you pay, and a plan is needed to edit it. A failed build goes back to your monthly builds. Check the required export and final checkout first. Pro and Team include MCP; Team includes API access. The account, editor and billing application currently use English.[8]

Sources and scope

The cited vendor pages support the capability comparison. Any direct demo observation is identified in the article; this is not a matched-source accuracy benchmark. Product details can change. Unavailable sources are identified, and older claims are not treated as current limitations. Check the linked plan, price and export details.