DRAFTING

Drafting is necessary to construct any building or structure, whether it is residential or industrial. Since it is a visual representation of the final structure, the initial stage of drafting is such a crucial aspect of construction. It is a plan about how a vision can be transformed into reality. Drafting will provide homeowners, developers, engineers, and even investors an indication of what the structure will look like when constructing a building, and how the project would progress with each phase necessary for its completion.

Why drafting is important in construction:

Drafting Offers Construction Strategies

Naturally, constructing a structure involves visual representation. With mere words, you can't just build a structure. Drafting allow you to see the project's proportions and size, providing a comprehensive plan of how each part of a structure in real life would be made. The most significant sketches, as they are used on site, are building details. It helps builders better consider the construction layout and how the components can be used precisely when the building is being designed. As the draft is the plan to be delivered to consumers and developers by architects and engineers, it will become the focal point that can be used to make choices and negotiations by anyone participating with the project. Drafting encourages the team to come up with building plans that will make the project successful.

Drafting Helps the Team Understand the General Design

Drafting requires all building details, including a structure's size, altitude, and elevations. The draft allows the team to have a shared linking point. In terms of optimizing the materials and available space, staff and foremen on the ground and experts such as architects and engineers should come to an understanding. The position of the groundwork of the structure requires this process. With a draft in place, persons from various teams will all be on the same page at different times of the building. The work plans demonstrate how each of the building's interior details would play out. By an architect, structural drawing is undertaken, and these sketches outline the appropriate reinforcements and strength required in the construction of a house. Plumbing and sanitation sketches indicate where the plumbing system, as well as the arrangement of pipes and faucets that will run through the whole construction, will be installed in the house.

A Draft Prevents Delays

A strong draft outlines how a complex plan would be implemented, supplying the foremen and staff with design knowledge from the architect and engineer. The plans must be carefully reviewed by the architect and drafting technician to prevent misunderstanding before assigning a draft or blueprint to a site. In a draft , a standardized process is in motion that everyone on the board can appreciate. Since there is also a deadline for how long a building can last, getting a draft helps ensure that everyone completes the process adequately in a timely manner. For the team involved, a well-executed draft makes it smoother and gives them a guided viewpoint on planning every day and every hour they spent on site. For a project, a comprehensive draft is of absolute significance. Insufficient details, which can lead to delays, leads to a lot of back and forth checking between teams. It costs money every day on a building site, and without a comprehensive draft plan, the entire project would go beyond not just the timeline, but also the budget.

Sumanam provide drafting on a wide range of services

Conversion

PDF to CAD
Hand sketches/ideas to CAD
Generating 2D drawings/views from 3D models(includes Inventor, Fusion, CAD 3D, SAT, DXF, BIM models, etc.)
Preparation of Shop Drawings/Fabrication from the Design drawings/Construction issue drawings for models & projects.
Point Cloud to CAD conversion.
Developing drawings(isometric or orthographic) from 3D Models (Models developed in CAD, Inventor, Revit, Fusion, etc.).

Preparation

Construction issue drawings
As-built drawings
Shop drawings
Fabrication drawings, Of architecture(including landscape), Structure & MEP (including its components).

Note: Revising the existing drawings available in PDF format, CAD format, or of any kind, etc. as per the requirements/changes. Output files of drafting can be provided as DWG, PDF, or image file formats