The choice usually comes down to a freelancer, a new hire or a Revit drafting specialist that scales with each project. A freelancer is quick to arrange and suits a single drawing, but as volume grows you have one pair of hands on the job, and the work stops as soon as that person drops out.
Hiring a drafter in this field takes months, and after that the payroll costs keep running through every quiet period. We offer the third route: a team that is already in place, from which we deploy whatever the job requires.
When things are urgent we add people straight away, and in case of illness or holidays we replace someone, so your schedule does not slip after all. 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 experience between them. We draft and model; engineering stays with the party responsible for it.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
How our Revit drafting process works
A collaboration with us starts with a conversation about the project. We ask about the stage the model is at, its scope, the schedule and the conventions your firm uses internally. You then send us the details, usually together with existing drawings or a live model that needs revising. We first review those documents as a whole. We look at how the model is built, which families are already in it and whether the naming is consistent, because that determines how quickly we can get going.
Only then do we put people to work. We deliver in stages and use the first delivery as a benchmark. Your project lead tells us what needs to change in sheet layout, detailing or parameters, we incorporate that and move on to the next part. We keep that loop going throughout the project, because otherwise a correction on part one comes back five times in the rest of the set. We match the rhythm of our check-ins to the urgency: every two days on a tight schedule, weekly when there is more breathing room.
Contact runs via email and phone, supplemented by meetings at our office or yours. Along the way, every piece of Revit drafting passes through at least three review layers before it leaves the building. As a result, the number of errors stays minimal in practice, even in sets that run for months. If a reviewer spots something that deviates structurally, we adjust the agreement before the next part begins.
Versions, formats and tying into an existing Revit set
We always work with the latest versions and in our own environment, on our own licences. That means you do not need to set up a workstation, account or server access for us. Besides Revit, our main software is AutoCAD and Rhino, supplemented by Inventor, Grasshopper and, to a lesser extent, Dynamo and Vault. We exchange files in Revit formats, DWG, DXF and STEP, and in any other common CAD format you use. Tying into an existing set takes more than opening a file.
We adopt the templates, layer structure, title blocks, hatching and naming from the standard your firm provides. If a convention is missing, we ask rather than invent something ourselves, because an idiosyncratic choice on sheet three leads to corrections on sheet eighty. We build parametric Revit families, in other words smart components that adapt to a new size or situation, with a material schedule that updates automatically. We can clean up existing families and templates or rebuild them from scratch. Which is wiser depends on the state of the set: a library that has silted up over the years, with duplicate parameters and variants nobody recognises any more, can take more hours to repair than to rebuild.
We only give that verdict after going through the files ourselves. If your work preparation still runs entirely in flat 2D, we simply deliver the Revit drafting as DWG. If you want to move to a model later, you then have a set that remains usable without detours.
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.
Scaling up with more Revit drafters
We usually start small and scale up within the same project with our large, flexible team, deploying as many drafters as the work requires. We have that headroom because the team is already in place; when a peak hits, we do not need to recruit anyone or hire through an agency. When things are urgent, we add people to an ongoing job straight away, usually within the same week the need arises. Your line of communication does not change, because Barry, our project manager, remains your fixed point of contact and Sam, our team leader, keeps hold of the technical thread. Seven years in Iran, more than fifteen years of background in architecture and his own design practice in the Netherlands have shaped his path, and Sam is still an engineer today. Scaling up on model work does require discipline. More people on a model without clear agreements mostly creates a mess, so we divide the work into clearly bounded parts and keep the review layers intact.
If someone is out due to illness or holidays, we replace them and the work carries on. Meanwhile, you carry no ongoing payroll costs and keep your own staffing as it is. We do not work with prepaid bundles or an hours subscription, so after a peak there is no leftover credit that nobody knows what to do with. Scaling down works just as easily as scaling up: if the volume drops, we take people off the project with no notice period or wind-down arrangement. For a firm with a fluctuating order book, that is the practical difference from a permanent hire. Our focus is on the Netherlands, and we work nationwide from our own office.
Getting started with a Revit specialist
We respond to a new enquiry within 1 to 2 working days. Barry handles that first contact, after which Sam joins for the technical side, so someone who drafts himself is involved right from the start. In that conversation, we go through the project and decide together whether outsourcing makes sense in your situation. To get started, we need a limited set of information.
That means the project details and starting points, the existing drawings or live model, your firm's CAD standards, a representative sample sheet and the format in which the result needs to be delivered. We also want to know who handles the sheets internally, because feedback from two directions costs unnecessary hours.
We can start as soon as that information is in. If part of it is missing, we often start on a clearly defined element that leaves no room for doubt, rather than waiting days for a complete file. A short job is fine with us, and we actually recommend it as a first introduction. A single set of sheets or a limited family conversion shows within a week how quickly and accurately we work, without you committing to a longer project.
We do not quote firm lead times in hours or days before we have seen the material; after reviewing it, we tell you what is feasible in which order. You can reach us by phone or via the contact form on our website, after which we schedule the conversation. You are welcome to visit, and we are happy to come to you when that helps.
Frequently asked questions about hiring a Revit drafting specialist
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.