Revit modelling outsourcing usually starts with a concrete work package that we regularly take on in practice: building a building model, adding families or cleaning up an existing set that has ground to a halt. We work in the latest version of Revit and deliver in the Revit formats you already use, supplemented by DXF, DWG and STEP where needed for exchange with other parties.
Alongside the modelling itself, we build parametric Revit families, components that adapt to a new situation so nobody has to redraw them by hand every time.
We draft and model; we do no engineering and no calculations, and we set out that boundary in the first conversation. Every model goes through at least three review layers before it reaches you, which keeps errors limited in practice. For an architectural practice facing a peak or an engineering firm wanting an existing family set cleaned up, this is exactly the work our team does every day.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
What OutsourceCAD delivers in Revit modelling
With Revit modelling outsourcing, we deliver complete building models, additional families and the 2D drawings derived from them, such as floor plans, facade elevations and detail drawings. If an existing model needs a revision, we update it to reflect the latest situation, including as-built drawings where relevant. A large part of our work consists of parametric families: components that adapt to a new size or a different situation, so you have us build them once and can then place them anywhere again without redrawing.
The material schedule updates automatically, so if the component changes, the schedule changes with it without any manual updating. For clients in greenhouse construction, this is a familiar example: where someone in AutoCAD redraws a valve in sizes 90 and 110 by hand every time, we place it in a single action with a smart Revit family. In that kind of work, it saves at least seventy per cent of the time compared with redrawing it again and again. Besides new families, we can also clean up an existing set, restructure families or, if the set has become too messy, build a new one.
We decide together with you which is the wiser option, based on the state of the existing files. We deliver in Revit formats, supplemented by DWG, DXF and STEP where the project calls for it, so other parties can connect to our work without any problems. Detail drawings of complex junctions are also part of our standard delivery, together with an overview of the families used.
Who Revit modelling outsourcing is relevant for
Revit modelling outsourcing is mainly relevant for architectural practices, engineering firms, contractors and manufacturers who lack sufficient drafting capacity of their own for the volume of work. The people we speak to are managers, team leaders or owners who are the first to feel the delay in the drawing office as a deadline approaches. For some, it is a peak, for example a project that turns out bigger than originally planned. For others, there is a structural problem: a family set that over the years has become clogged up with components that no longer fit together logically, so building further in the model takes more and more time than necessary.
Companies moving from drafting in AutoCAD to parametric working in Revit also come to us, because they notice the difference between the two packages in practice. Firefly is the example from our own practice of a client for whom we have now delivered more than twenty projects and hundreds of drawings, spread across several jobs. What these clients have in common is that it is not about an unwillingness to model themselves, but about a shortage of hours at exactly the moment they are needed. We absorb that shortage without you having to take on a permanent employee for work that drops off again after the peak, and without your own team having to train a new colleague in your CAD standards.
We often hear that the in-house team would rather work on design than on repetitive modelling. We weigh up that trade-off soberly in the first conversation.
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.
How a Revit modelling job runs
The job starts with a conversation in which you explain what is needed, which part of the Revit model has stalled and by when the first deliverables need to be ready. We usually receive an existing model or family set that serves as the basis, together with the CAD standards and conventions that apply to the project. We always work to your standard, not to a template of our own, and we record those agreements at the start of the job. Once that is clear we get to work, and we deliver in stages rather than all at once at the end. Those interim deliveries give you the chance to respond along the way, shift a priority or adjust something without the whole job coming to a standstill. After each interim delivery we actively ask for feedback, which we process in the next round, so there are no surprises at final delivery.
We agree the meeting rhythm per client, from a catch-up every two days to weekly contact, depending on how fast things need to move and how complex the model is. Contact runs via email, phone and meetings, and on larger jobs we work in an environment where you can log in and follow progress. For more ad hoc Revit modelling, we deliver by email, with the same structure of interim deliveries and feedback rounds. Throughout the job we keep the same contact person, so you never have to explain again where the model stands.
Checks on every Revit model before delivery
Every Revit model goes through at least three review layers before it reaches you. A drafter builds the model, after which a second team member checks that work for consistency and accuracy. Sam, our team leader, then goes over it once more, paying particular attention to the technical side of the modelling. Finally, Barry, our project manager, checks the result before we actually send it to you.
That sequence of checks is not a formality; it is the reason we keep errors to a minimum in practice, even with a high volume of families and models. For parametric families we make those checks even stricter, because an error in a family carries through into every model in which a drafter uses it.
That is why, when building a new family, we always test whether the component adapts correctly to different situations before releasing it for use on projects. Everyone who works on a Revit model with us has more than ten years of CAD experience, which strengthens those checks in practice. When cleaning up an existing family set, we take the same approach: first we map out what is already there, then we decide what stays, what we adjust and what we rebuild.
That way we deliver not just a working model, but a checked whole that fits the rest of the project, including the existing material schedule and documentation. As a result, at every interim delivery you know what we have checked and by whom. That makes quality dependent not on one person, but on a fixed way of working that our entire team follows.
Frequently asked questions about Revit modelling outsourcing
Hand your Revit modelling 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.