If you have had a Revit drafter wanted ad out and end up outsourcing, what you mostly want to know is who checks the work. With us, every drawing goes through at least three layers of review. A drafter draws, a second team member checks that work, Sam, our team leader, then reviews the technical side and Barry, our project manager, gives it a final look.
That sequence is fixed, even on a rush job. It is the reason the number of errors stays minimal in practice, and why you don't have to act as the proofreader yourself.
We draft and model; engineering stays with your firm. Everyone who works 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 work remotely from our own office, in our own environment, following the drawing conventions you give us. Our clients are in the Netherlands. We respond to a request within one to two working days.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
The work waiting when a Revit drafter is wanted
The requests we receive rarely concern a single sheet. Usually there is a series, for example a set of floor plans that needs to be redone, a range of details that goes with a changed principle, or a file of elevations and sections that must be completed. We deliver that 2D drafting from Revit, with the sheets laid out the way you are used to. Where the project calls for 3D, we model the whole thing and keep the views linked to it. As-built drawings make up a substantial part of our work, because that is often where the biggest mess is.
We once dealt with a file whose existing drawings had been printed incorrectly and partly drawn by hand, barely legible and without consistent dimensioning. We figured it out ourselves instead of calling the client every day, and still delivered it neatly. Revisions are the third stream: a change comes in, we carry it through the entire set and keep the sheet numbering, legend and title blocks correct. We also build parametric families so recurring components don't have to be created from scratch every time.
We deliver in Revit formats, DWG, DXF or STEP, and in practice in any common CAD format you need. We always work with the latest versions. What we don't do is at least as important: no calculations, no structural advice and no permit procedures. Our work stops at drafting and modelling, and that is exactly what we are fully set up for. That clear scope keeps our pace high on precisely the work that makes a drawing office grind to a halt.
Firms looking for a Revit drafter, and why
The clients who approach us are engineering firms, architecture practices, contractors and manufacturers, and more broadly companies with a lot of technical drafting work. We talk with managers, team leaders and owners. Their problem is remarkably consistent: work has been won and there aren't enough hands to draw it up. A vacancy is open, applications don't come in or the candidates aren't right, and meanwhile the schedule slips. Sometimes it isn't a vacancy but a peak of a few months that doesn't justify a permanent hire.
In both cases the question for us comes down to capacity, not expertise. The firm knows exactly what needs to be done but doesn't have the hours. We fill that gap without you having to go through a recruitment process, and without payroll costs running on once the volume drops. For a team leader, that mainly means peace of mind in the planning. Our clients are in the Netherlands and that is where we focus.
We started this service last year because a client asked for it, it worked well, and we have offered it as a standard service ever since. For Firefly we have completed more than twenty projects and delivered hundreds of drawings. That kind of volume shows where our model fits: work with repetition, a clear standard and a client who safeguards the substantive direction. We take over the production and nothing more. For an owner who steers on planning, what counts most is that the deadline is achievable again.
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.
From first conversation to staged delivery with our Revit drafters
The process starts with a conversation in which we go through the project. Barry picks up the first request, after which Sam takes over the technical side and remains the point of contact for the content. You supply the details and usually also the existing drawings that need revising. We ask for your drawing conventions and stick to them, even if we would approach things differently in-house. We then divide the work among the drafters who suit the size of the job. We deliver in stages, not just at the end. A first batch goes to you, we gather feedback, process it and move on to the next. That way a misunderstanding about a detail stays limited to a few sheets instead of an entire set.
The meeting rhythm varies by client: with one we speak every two days, with another weekly, depending on how fast things need to move. Day-to-day contact runs by email and phone. For standalone drafting, files are exchanged by email. On larger projects, such as greenhouse construction, we use software that lets you log in and follow the project's progress. We come to you or you come to us, although the work itself is carried out remotely from our own office. As soon as we have enough information we can start, and we respond to a new request within one to two working days. We then schedule a first meeting in consultation with your project leader.
Three layers of review on every sheet we deliver
We never release a drawing that has been seen by only one pair of eyes. The drafter produces the work, a second team member checks it, Sam reviews the technical side as team leader and Barry gives it a final look. That makes at least three layers of review on top of the drafting itself. That structure takes time, and we consider it responsible.
Errors that slip into a set cost far more during construction than the minutes a check takes. What we catch with it is very practical: a detail worked out differently on sheet seven than on sheet two, a title block with an outdated revision code, a layer not named according to the conventions, or dimensions that weren't updated after a change.
Those things come out in the review before you ever see them. As a result, errors hardly ever occur in practice. Sam has more than fifteen years' background in architecture, worked in Iran for seven years, ran his own design practice in the Netherlands and still works as an engineer, so he looks at everything that passes with a trained eye.
We don't hold certifications and we don't claim to. Our quality lies in our people and in the order in which we review. If you want to judge that for yourself, give us a small first job and assess the result on real work rather than on a sales pitch. We consider that a fairer test than any promise made in advance.
Frequently asked questions about Revit drafter wanted
Hand your Revit 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.