If you want to hire a Rhino specialist, the question usually starts with volume: how much repetitive drafting is really in the project, and how often does the same component come back in a slightly different size or shape? At low volumes a single extra drafter is often enough, but as soon as the number of variants climbs, every action that gets done twice adds to the lead time.
We supply drafters with more than ten years of CAD experience who use Rhino every day, alongside Revit, AutoCAD, Inventor and Grasshopper.
Our team works remotely from our own office, with our own licences and the latest software versions, while you simply keep working in your own environment. Our capacity adapts to the project, from a single drafter to a team that grows with the size of the job. If you notice that a job keeps bringing the same repetition, mention it in the first conversation so we can tailor our approach to it straight away.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
What a Rhino specialist delivers for you
When you hire a Rhino specialist from us, you do not get loose hours from an individual drafter but access to a team used to working in Rhino on a wide range of assignments. We deliver 2D drafting and, where needed, 3D modelling, supplemented with as-built drawings when an existing object or building has to be recorded first, and revisions when a drawing set needs bringing up to the latest state of the project. In practice, we turn a sketch or a set of photos you send us into a working drawing that you can use straight away for the next step in your process.
For a revision round, we first look at what already exists, so the new drawing ties in with earlier versions instead of sitting next to the archive as a separate document. One example from our practice is a job in which existing drawings had been partly completed by hand and were hard to read, and we worked out the intent ourselves rather than calling the client about it every time.
That fits the way we work: pressing on independently based on what has been supplied, and only coming back to you when a decision is yours to make. We deliver in stages, so you can adjust course before the whole package is finished. That way our Rhino specialist is not limited to individual drawings but ties into the bigger picture of the project you are working on.
Software, versions and file formats when you hire a Rhino specialist
The decision to hire a Rhino specialist is often linked to the software your own firm already uses and whether an external team can plug into it without hassle. We use Rhino as our main software alongside Revit and AutoCAD, and we also use Inventor and Grasshopper when a project calls for them, with Dynamo and Vault to a limited extent. We always work with the latest versions, so no compatibility problems arise when we send a file back to you.
We exchange files in DXF, DWG, the common Revit formats or STEP, and in practice in almost any common CAD format a client supplies. That matters most when a firm works with several packages at once, for example Rhino for design and AutoCAD for construction drawings, where files have to move cleanly from one package to the other. We work in our own environment with our own licences, not in yours, which means no time is lost setting up access or installing software on your side.
For Grasshopper, we align scripts and definitions with what you already use, so a parametric model works not only for us but also when it comes back to your own office. That way our Rhino specialist never works in a different software landscape from the rest of the project team, which would otherwise cause extra delay instead of the time savings you are after.
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.
Working to your CAD standards and layer structure
Every firm has its own CAD standards, with a fixed layer structure, naming and agreements on how a drawing is built up. If you bring in an external drafting team, you do not want the new drawings to look different from the rest of your archive. That is why we ask about your existing drawing conventions at the start and follow them strictly, instead of imposing our own standard. This applies to the layer structure in Rhino, the naming of components and the way a material schedule or legend is put together. For a revision round on existing drawings, this means the new version fits within the same structure as the old one, so a project lead leafing through the file does not run into a break in style or structure. Our work goes through at least three review layers, in which we also check whether the standard has been applied consistently, not just whether the drawing is correct in content.
That is exactly the kind of check that is often missing with a single freelancer, because nobody else looks at a drawing before it goes back to the client. If you change the standard during the project, for instance because your own client has different requirements, we include that in the next partial delivery. We discuss this by email, phone or a short call, at a rhythm that differs from client to client. That way the CAD standard never becomes a recurring point of discussion but a fixed given that our whole team works to from the first drawing, even when the staffing changes during the project.
What the delivered set from a Rhino specialist contains
Hiring a Rhino specialist ultimately produces a set that has to end up somewhere in your downstream process, and how well it connects often determines whether the job feels like a success. We tailor the delivered set to what happens with it next, whether that is further engineering at another firm, construction on site or processing in a larger model.
We supply the files in the format you specify, whether DWG, DXF, a Revit format or STEP, so no extra conversion round is needed before the next team can continue. On larger projects, such as greenhouse construction projects with a lot of pipework, we deliver through software in which you can follow progress yourself, rather than only at final handover.
For more loosely structured AutoCAD or Rhino drafting, we deliver by email, in stages that match the rhythm of the project. Every partial delivery goes through the same review layers as the rest of our work, so even an interim package has already been checked before it reaches you. That prevents a major correction round being needed at the end of the job after all.
The intellectual property of the set lies with you, so you can use the files freely in your own downstream process, whether internally or with another party. If you are unsure whether our set will fit a specific software package further down the chain, discuss it with us in advance so we can match the format and structure to it straight away.
Frequently asked questions about hiring a Rhino specialist
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