If you need an Inventor drafter for a project, the question is usually not just who will draw it, but also how it is organised. With us, there is a fixed structure behind that. Our project manager Barry picks up a new enquiry and remains your point of contact, team leader Sam takes over the technical side and directs the CAD team, and the drafters do the work.
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 combined practice.
We draft and model; we do not do engineering and we do not carry out calculations. The work is done remotely from our own office, with our own licences and always on the latest versions. You are welcome to visit, but the work itself stays with us. We respond to a new enquiry within 1 to 2 working days, after which we go through the project with you and decide on the staffing. From there, our large, variable team scales with each project, exactly as the work requires.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
What we draw when a project needs an Inventor drafter
The jobs that come to us vary, but the core is always the same: working up, updating and delivering neatly. We model parts and build assemblies, and from those we derive the drawings you need. We take on 2D drafting, provide 3D modelling where the project calls for it, update revisions and produce as-built drawings of situations that have been changed in practice. Who carries it out depends on the type of work. We allocate a revision pass on an existing set differently from a new assembly that has to be built from scratch. For a revision pass, we deploy people who move quickly through existing documents and pick out the discrepancies.
For new build-up work, Sam reviews the set-up beforehand, so the rest can continue along the same lines afterwards. We are clear about what we do not do. We do not run calculations, we do not give structural advice and we do not handle permits. That responsibility stays with you, and we make that explicit upfront so nobody makes a wrong assumption about it later. Before we start, we record which drawing types are included in the delivery and at what level of detail.
That may seem a formality, but in practice it saves entire correction rounds. A view that is built up just slightly differently from what you use internally will, across a hundred drawings, only stand out when it is too late. That is why we show the first part of the set early and explicitly ask for comments on its structure. Only once that structure is approved do we push through the volume. That keeps the correction workload low on both sides.
Working and communicating with our Inventor drafter
With us, you keep a fixed point of contact instead of a changing contact person. Barry picks up the enquiry and stays involved, and as soon as it comes to the technical side, Sam takes over. He is still active as an engineer, with more than fifteen years of background in architecture, seven years of work in Iran and his own design firm in the Netherlands. That means your project lead is dealing with someone on the other end of the line who understands the drawings himself. We agree the meeting rhythm per project.
On one project we speak every two days, on another weekly, depending on how urgent it is. Day-to-day contact runs via email and phone, and we visit you or you come to our office. For standalone drafting jobs, files simply go back and forth by email. Larger projects, greenhouse construction projects for example, run in software that you can log in to in order to follow the project. That way, you do not need to call to know where we stand.
We deliver in stages and gather feedback per stage, because that works better than a complete set coming back in one go. If the first part shows that something needs to change, we correct it before the rest goes the same way. We would rather bundle questions than send a separate email about each one every day. That keeps your project lead's day free, and everything arrives at once at a fixed moment. We adjust that rhythm as a deadline approaches.
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 of the files and confidentiality
Everything we deliver remains your intellectual property. That is not up for negotiation and not an exception for large clients. We deliver source files, not a flattened export, so your own drawing office can carry on with the set without us. That is deliberate. A client who is locked in to their drafting firm no longer has a choice, and we do not want to create that situation. In practice, clients still come back for the next round, simply because we already know the project and are therefore faster. We are just as direct about confidentiality. So far we have not signed a non-disclosure agreement, for the simple reason that clients have not asked for one. We are, however, fully open to it and will sign an NDA if you value one. We do not share project material with others, and that also applies to documents that seem harmless in themselves, such as an old as-built file.
What is more, we work in our own environment with our own licences, so we do not need access to your systems. That saves you a user account, a permissions issue and an exception to your own policy. If you want to put this in writing beforehand, we do so in the first conversation. We do not promise things we cannot deliver, so we deliberately make no claims about certifications or quality marks. What we do record are the agreements on the files, the formats and the way we store the material. We go through those points at the start of a project, not at handover. That way, you know where you stand from the outset.
How the process works when you need an Inventor drafter
It starts with a conversation in which we go through the project. We ask what is there, what needs to be finished, which standard applies internally and where the pressure lies. You then supply the details, usually with existing drawings that need revising. We go through that material first and flag anything we cannot trace. If the input is messy, we sort out as much as possible ourselves rather than calling your project lead every day.
We have done that before with a file whose drawings had been printed incorrectly and were partly drawn by hand, and it was still delivered neatly.
As soon as we have enough information, we start. We draw to your standard and drawing conventions, so the layer structure, naming and title blocks follow your set. We deliver in stages, process the feedback and move on to the next part. Before anything leaves our office, it has passed through at least three review layers, which keeps the number of errors minimal in practice. We agree on billing upfront: by the hour or per project at a fixed price, depending on how clearly the scope is defined.
We only bill actual working hours and do not work with prepaid hour bundles or an hours subscription. If you want to get started, contact us by phone or through the contact form and you will hear from us within 1 to 2 working days. In that first contact, we immediately go through which documents we need to get started.
Frequently asked questions when you need an Inventor drafter
Let us take on your Inventor drafting
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.