If you are considering getting 3D drawings drafted, you usually have a specific work package that has been waiting for weeks. It is often a set of components that exists in 2D and that your own team still needs to convert into a usable model. We take that package over.
Our team drafts and models, including in high volumes and with a lot of repetition, and we stick to the drawing conventions you supply. We do not do engineering, and we do not do calculations either; we deliver drafting and modelling work.
The work is carried out entirely remotely from our own office, with our own licences and the latest versions of Revit, AutoCAD and Rhino. You keep a fixed point of contact and receive the work back in stages, so corrections come up early rather than at the end. With our large, flexible team, we scale up per project whenever the schedule demands it. During a peak in the drawing office, your project leader will notice the difference within the first delivery.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
What we deliver when companies get 3D drawings drafted
The work package almost always starts with existing material. We receive DWGs, PDFs of old flat drawings or a half-finished model set, and build a usable 3D model around it. In Revit we model architectural and MEP engineering components, in Rhino we handle free-form shapes and in Inventor we draft parts at component level. From that model we then extract the flat output you need: floor plans, sections, elevations and detail sheets. We deliver in DXF, DWG, Revit formats and STEP, and in practice in any common CAD format that arrives at the drawing office.
Parametric work is part of it too. We build smart Revit families in which a component adapts to a different size, so the drafter does not have to set it up again every time. The material schedule is linked: if the component changes, the schedule changes automatically. In piping diagrams for greenhouse construction, that saves at least seventy per cent of the time, because otherwise a valve in 90 and in 110 has to be drawn by hand every time. Alongside new modelling work, we process revisions and work up as-built files.
What we do not do is just as important: we do not run calculations, we do not give structural advice and we do not handle permits. We draft and model, and we do so in volume. We adapt the layer structure, naming and stamp to the set that already exists. So if you get 3D drawings drafted by us, you receive a drawing package, not an advisory report. If you would like to know which output makes sense in your case, we will go through it in a first conversation.
Consultation and following along while we draft
Barry, our project manager, is usually the first point of contact for a new enquiry. Sam, our team leader, then takes over the technical side, so you deal with a fixed contact rather than a changing group. Sam has more than fifteen years of background in architecture, worked in Iran for seven years, ran his own design firm in the Netherlands and still works as an engineer. He leads our CAD team and is responsible for the technical side of the project. We tailor the meeting rhythm to the pace of the work.
With a tight schedule we talk every two days, on a calmer project weekly. Day-to-day contact runs through email and phone, and where it helps, we visit you or welcome you at our office. The work itself stays remote, because our team works from our own environment. For standalone AutoCAD drafting, files go back and forth by email. We support larger projects such as greenhouse construction with software that you can log into to follow the project.
You can then see for yourself how far along the set is without having to send an email. We deliberately deliver in stages, gather feedback, make adjustments and carry on. So a project leader who wants something different halfway through does not have to wait until the last drawing is finished. For companies that get 3D drawings drafted, that rhythm provides the most peace of mind, because there are no surprises at the end. If you would rather start small, you can try out that way of working on a short assignment first.
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.
Ownership and confidentiality of what we draft
The intellectual property of everything we produce belongs to you. That applies to the models, to the derived sheets and also to the families and templates we build along the way. We hold nothing back and supply the source files, not just a flat output. A drawing office that later wants to carry on by itself can therefore do so without approaching us again. We take a pragmatic view of confidentiality. So far we have not signed a non-disclosure agreement, simply because clients have not asked for one. If an NDA is on the table, we are open to it and will go through it before the first files come in. We also work in our own environment with our own licences, not in your system.
That means nobody has to arrange access to your network to bring us on board. We only request the documents we need for the drafting work. If the project runs through software you log into, the material stays in that environment. We prefer to agree on ownership and confidentiality at the start rather than afterwards. Companies that get 3D drawings drafted by an external team are right to ask about this. We have no interest in keeping anything vague, because our job is drafting and the result belongs to whoever commissions it. If you have doubts about any point in those arrangements, we will simply put it in writing.
How we run the project from first conversation to delivery
It starts with a conversation. We go through what is available, what the end result needs to do and which standard applies. You then supply the details, usually with existing drawings that need revising. We review that set before we start drafting, because a file supplied to us is rarely complete. With an old as-built package that was printed incorrectly and partly drawn by hand, we work out for ourselves how it fits together.
That saves your project leader a string of phone calls. We then divide the work across our team, depending on the scope and the required speed. For a small package we assign one drafter, and for a large series as many drafters as needed from our large, flexible team.
A drafter draws, a second team member checks that work, Sam then reviews it and Barry goes over it last. Thanks to those three review layers, errors are kept to a minimum in practice. We deliver in stages so you can follow along early. We process your feedback and then pick up the next part. That way the set grows step by step rather than all at once at the end.
For a deadline that could not move, our team worked evenings and weekends, with days of fourteen to fifteen hours. That is not standard practice, but it shows what we do when a date is fixed. If you want to outsource and get 3D drawings drafted, we can start as soon as we have enough information. We respond to a new enquiry within 1 to 2 working days and then schedule the conversation.
Frequently asked questions about getting 3D drawings drafted
Let us draft your 3D drawings
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.