Interior fit-out drafting outsourcing starts with a clear line between what you keep in-house and what you hand over to us. The design, the choice of materials and contact with the end client almost always stay with the fit-out company itself. What comes to us is the production drafting: working up cabinets, wall units, counters and individual elements into drawings the workshop can build from.
We draft and model; we do not do engineering and do not give structural advice. That division keeps responsibility where it belongs and keeps the collaboration clear.
In practice the work reaches us as a package of sketches, dimensions and existing files, sometimes supplemented with photos of the site. We turn that into a complete set and deliver in stages, so your project leader can review it early. Our people all have more than ten years of CAD experience, so the first drawing is not a practice round. We respond to a new enquiry within 1 to 2 working days and then go through the project with you in a conversation.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
What we deliver in interior fit-out drafting
At its core, the set we deliver for interior fit-out consists of production drawings at component level. We work up wall cabinets, kitchen units, reception counters, fixed seating and built-in cupboards into plans, elevations, sections and scaled detail drawings. For each element we detail the panel layout, the dimensions, the rebates and the connections to floor, ceiling and wall. Where you work with a 3D model, we model the element first and derive the 2D drawings from it, so a change does not have to be made separately in five drawings.
Revisions make up a large part of this work: a showroom design changes, the end client chooses a different front, and the whole set has to follow. We carry out that revision round on the existing DWGs rather than starting again, unless the existing set is so messy that rebuilding is quicker. As-built drawings are also part of the work we take on. On one of our projects the existing material came in partly hand-drawn and printed incorrectly, barely legible and without clear dimensions.
We worked it out ourselves instead of calling the project leader every day, and still delivered a clean set. What we explicitly do not do is engineering, strength calculations or permit work. Our role stops at drafting and modelling, and that is exactly where our speed lies. For companies outsourcing interior fit-out drafting, that means a predictable production layer beneath their own design team. We decide the size of that layer per project together with you, and it can grow as soon as your order book fills up.
Software, versions and formats in our interior fit-out drafting
Our main software is Revit, AutoCAD and Rhino, and we also work with Inventor and Grasshopper and to a lesser extent with Dynamo and Vault. For interior fit-out drafting the emphasis is usually on AutoCAD and Revit, with Rhino added as soon as the design includes curved fronts, organic counters or free-form shapes. We always work with the latest versions, in our own environment with our own licences. That means you do not have to arrange a workstation, a licence or access to your own network for us.
Files go back and forth as DXF, DWG, Revit formats or STEP, and in practice we handle any common CAD format that comes in. On a standalone AutoCAD project the exchange runs by email, because that is quickest for a manageable set. On larger projects we use software you can log into to follow the progress of the project. Picking up an existing set starts with opening it and going through its structure: which blocks it contains, how the xrefs connect, which title block belongs to it.
If there is a Revit family library that has become clogged up over the years, we first discuss whether cleaning it up is enough or whether rebuilding would be quicker. We do not make that call ourselves, but present it to you with a short rationale for both routes. That way you stay in control of your own library and we know exactly the framework we are drafting within.
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.
Your CAD standards and layer structure
We draw to your standard, not to a house style of our own. At the start we ask for your drawing protocol, a sample drawing that has been approved internally, the layer structure, the line weights used and the conventions for hatching and dimension style. If no such document exists, we derive the rules from two or three recent projects and present our findings for confirmation. That takes half an hour of discussion at the start and prevents the first delivery being rejected on form rather than content. We copy layer names, block names and the title block layout exactly. We also follow your drawing numbering, because a fit-out company that runs its workshop on drawing numbers has no use for a logic of our own. Our review process is set up with that in mind.
The work goes through at least three layers: a drafter produces the set, a second team member checks it, then Sam, our team leader, reviews it, and finally Barry, our project manager, checks the delivery. In those layers we catch not only dimensional errors but also deviations from the standard, such as an element on the wrong layer or a detail at the wrong scale. As a result, the number of corrections stays small in practice and your project leader keeps his own checking to a minimum. If the standard changes during the project, we update the current set and include that change in the next partial delivery. That keeps everything in the project folder consistent, even when the project runs for months.
The delivered set and what happens after you outsource
A delivery from us is a structured set, not a collection of loose, unrelated files. It contains the plans, elevations, sections and details, the associated blocks and xrefs, and where applicable the model from which we derived the drawings. We deliver in stages, usually per room or per group of elements, so your project leader can already review while the rest is still on the drawing board.
We process feedback in the next round and discuss it in whatever meeting rhythm the project needs: every two days when it is urgent, weekly on a calmer project. The intellectual property of everything we produce belongs to you, so the set can go on to the workshop, estimating or a supplier without restriction.
We do not hold back any files and we do not build in any dependency. We sign a non-disclosure agreement on request, even though no client has asked for one so far. After the final delivery the set remains usable for what comes next, because its structure fits your existing project folder and the file names follow the agreed convention. If a change comes in from site later, we carry out the revision in the same set rather than putting a new version alongside it.
For companies outsourcing interior fit-out drafting, that is where the gain lies: the follow-on process continues without any translation step. So we do not deliver a nice-looking package, but a set that is immediately usable in the workshop and in estimating. If the first partial delivery shows that something needs to change, we adjust course before the rest of the elements head in that direction.
Frequently asked questions about interior fit-out drafting outsourcing
Hand your fit-out 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.