If you want to bring in a CAD drafting firm in the Netherlands, the first thing you almost always look at is cost. That makes sense, because buying in drafting capacity has to pay for itself in lead time and calm in the drawing office. We charge by the hour or per project at a fixed price, and we decide together with you in the first conversation which option suits best.
We only bill productive working hours. As soon as a drafter goes to get a five-minute coffee, our time recording stops.
What is more, with us you pay no ongoing payroll costs, no idle time and no holiday days. If someone is off sick or on holiday, we replace that person so the work keeps moving. We draft, we do not do engineering, and that boundary keeps the assignment focused and the invoicing predictable. The work is done entirely remotely from our own office, with our own licences. A short assignment is fine, so you can first judge our speed and accuracy before more work follows.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
Clients looking for a CAD drafting firm in the Netherlands
The clients who approach us are alike in one respect: there is more drafting work on the table than their own team can handle. We work for engineering firms, architectural practices, contractors and manufacturers, and more broadly for companies with technical drafting work. The people we talk to are managers, team leaders and owners, people who do not draft themselves but are responsible for the schedule. The reason is almost always capacity. Too little time, too few drafters, or a peak their own team cannot absorb. Sometimes it is a revision round on a large pile of existing DWGs that has been sitting untouched for months.
Sometimes it is an as-built file that was half drawn by hand and urgently needs to become a clean digital set. In both cases the work is not complicated, but it is extensive and repetitive, exactly the type of assignment an in-house drawing office gets stuck on. We take over that volume so your own drafters can stay on the work that genuinely needs their attention. Our clients are in the Netherlands and that is where our focus lies too. Working nationwide means the distance to you plays no role for us, because the work is done remotely anyway.
Barry, our project manager, is usually the first point of contact for a new enquiry, after which Sam, our team leader, takes over the technical side. Well over fifteen years of background in architecture, seven years in Iran and his own design practice in the Netherlands are to the name of Sam, who is still an engineer. He leads our CAD team and carries the technical side of every project. That gives you one fixed point of contact, even when many drafters from our large, variable team are involved.
Three review layers before our CAD drafting firm delivers anything
We manage quality through checks, not promises. Every drawing goes through at least three review layers before it leaves us. A drafter produces the work, a second team member then checks it in full, Sam reviews the technical side as team leader and Barry takes a final look. That sounds laborious, but in practice it saves the most rework. Errors in drafting work are rarely spectacular.
It is a layer that is wrong, a dimension carried over from an old revision, a block that wanders through the set in two variants. Things like that only become apparent once the set is already on site, and by then fixing them costs many times the original drafting time. Because we keep the checking in-house, the number of errors in our work stays minimal and you keep your own people free. After all, we do not expect your drawing office to do our checking. We deliver in stages, collect feedback, make adjustments and move on to the next series.
That way a deviation in the approach surfaces in the first twenty drawings and not in the last two hundred. When we received an as-built file for Firefly in which the existing drawings had been printed incorrectly and partly drawn by hand, we worked it out ourselves instead of passing every ambiguity back. That is the attitude we expect from our team. We do call when something genuinely requires a decision from you, but not for things we can trace ourselves.
No ongoing payroll costs and no idle staff once the peak is over. If one of our people is off sick or on holiday, we replace them and the work simply carries on.
What a CAD drafting firm in the Netherlands costs in hours
The cost of drafting work lies in hours, so the main question is how many hours are needed and how we account for them. We work on an hourly basis or at a fixed project price, and which option fits depends on how sharply the scope can be defined in advance. If there is a clearly defined set with a clear number of drawings, we can put a fixed price on the table. If the work runs alongside a project that is still moving, for example a revision process where new documents keep arriving, an hourly rate is fairer for both sides. We only bill productive working hours. Meetings, coffee and waiting time do not appear on the invoice, and that is a deliberate choice, because otherwise trust in the timesheet disappears straight away. What also keeps costs down is preparation. The more complete the documents supplied and the clearer the drawing conventions, the less time we lose to working things out.
Repetition also lowers the price. Once we have got the hang of a series, the fourth drawing goes faster than the first, and with parametric Revit families that saves at least seventy per cent of the time on repetitive work. We do not work with prepaid hour bundles or a monthly hours subscription, because that forces you to buy what you may not need. We only prepare an estimate after we have seen the documents and gone through the project with you. What we produce remains your property, including the intellectual property. We respond to a new enquiry within 1 to 2 working days, followed by the conversation in which we pin down the scope.
A CAD drafting firm compared with a freelancer or permanent drafter
If you are looking for capacity, you broadly have three routes: take someone on permanently, hire a freelancer, or hand the work to us. Permanent staff is the most expensive and slowest route when demand fluctuates. Recruitment takes time, onboarding takes time, and after the peak the payroll is still there. We supply capacity that moves with you, because our large, variable team scales up or down per project, and when something is urgent we add people straight away because the team is already in place.
A freelancer is a fine fix for a small gap, but that is one person working with no review behind them.
If that person drops out, the project grinds to a halt. With us, we replace someone in case of illness or holidays, and the project knowledge stays within our team. The checking stays in place too, because every drawing passes several pairs of eyes with us before you see anything. We also work with our own licences in our own environment, so you do not need to arrange workstations, licences or hardware. Everyone who drafts for us has more than ten years of CAD experience, and the core of our team has around twenty-five years of practice combined.
We started this service last year at a client's request and have offered it as a permanent service ever since. A short assignment is fine, so you can begin with a small first series and decide after that. You can reach us by phone or through the contact form, after which we go through the project with you calmly.
Frequently asked questions about a CAD drafting firm in the Netherlands
Hand your CAD drafting over to us
Send us your documents and drawing conventions and we will let you know within one to two working days what we can take on and when.