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An AI drafter for your team

The AI Drafter for Engineering and Architecture Firms

On most projects the drafting backlog sits with a few people who also know where every standard, block, and past detail lives. Nomic is an AI drafter that takes the same requests your team hands to a drafter, in a sentence with backgrounds attached, and saves DWGs on your layers and title blocks. It is a new source of drafting capacity, and your drafters and engineers stay the ones who review, coordinate, and decide.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • A one-sentence drafting request
  • Backgrounds, markups, sketches, or design criteria
  • Your CAD standards, block library, and title block
  • Past projects that show how your firm draws the sheet

Nomic hands back

  • DWG files saved to the project in your standards
  • Clouds on everything Nomic drew or changed
  • Plotted PDFs, schedules in Excel, and transmittals
  • A list of open questions for your team
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On the sheet

Power Plan, annotated

An electrical power plan drawn over the architectural background, with receptacles circuited back to the panel.

  1. 1Duplex receptacle on the wall it serves
  2. 2Branch circuit wiring between devices
  3. 3Homerun arrow with panel and circuit number
  4. 4Panelboard the circuits return to

The problem

The drafting queue is longer than the team

A drafter on an engineering or architecture team does far more than draw lines. They set up sheets from the index, reload backgrounds and fix what moved, pick up redlines from three engineers with three markup habits, keep the block library straight, plot the set, and catch the coordination problem nobody asked them to look for. When two projects hit 90 percent CDs in the same week, every one of those tasks lands on the same few people.

The firm then either pulls engineers into drafting, pushes the deadline, or turns down the next project. Hiring helps, but a new drafter takes months to learn the firm's standards and habits, and the backlog does not wait for onboarding.

01 / Request

Hand it work the way you hand work to a drafter

Write the request in a sentence, attach the backgrounds, markups, or a sketch, and point Nomic at the project. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, lays out or edits the drawing, and saves the DWG to the project with a note of what it did and what it could not answer.

  • Plans, layouts, details, and schedules from a one-sentence request
  • Redline pickup from scanned hand markups and Bluebeam markups
  • Sheet setup, title block updates, plotting, and transmittals
02 / Standards

Drafted to the firm's habits, not a generic library

Nomic reads your CAD standards, block library, and the way the same sheet was drawn on past projects, so its DWGs look like the rest of your set. A drafter on your team reviewing the sheet sees familiar layers, tags, and notes and can spend the review on the content.

  • Layers, blocks, line types, and text styles from your standards
  • Tags, keynotes, and general notes in your firm's format
  • Past projects used as precedent for how a sheet is drawn
03 / Review

Clouded and checked before your team opens it

Everything Nomic drew is clouded, so the review starts with what changed. Nomic also checks its own work against the code edition you name and the source documents, and lists what it was unsure of, so your drafter or engineer can back-check quickly and make the final call.

  • Clouds on every entity Nomic added or changed
  • Self-check against code and the source documents
  • Open questions listed for the drafter or engineer of record

Checked against

The code and documents behind every sheet

Name the editions the project is designed to and Nomic checks its own drawing against them before handing it back. Your engineer or architect of record makes the final call and stamps the set.

  • Your firm CAD standards and precedent sheets
  • The backgrounds, markups, and criteria you attached
  • NEC, IBC, IMC, IPC, and NFPA editions you name
  • IECC or ASHRAE 90.1 energy provisions

How it works

From a sentence to a stamped set

  1. Step 1

    Ask for the drawing

    Say what the sheet needs to show and attach the backgrounds, markups, cutsheets, or photos. A sentence is enough to start.

  2. Step 2

    Nomic drafts it in CAD

    Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, on your layers and blocks, following how your firm drew the same thing before. It saves real DWG files to the project.

  3. Step 3

    Nomic checks its own work

    The drawing is checked against the code editions you name and the source documents. Everything Nomic drew is clouded, and open questions are listed.

  4. Step 4

    Your team reviews and stamps

    Your engineers and architects review the clouded changes, make the final call, and issue the set under their own stamp.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

An AI drafter is software that produces drawings from a request the way a person on the drafting team would. Nomic takes a request in a sentence with backgrounds attached, works in CAD on its own computer, and saves DWG files in your firm's standards for your team to review.

No. Nomic is a new source of drafting capacity. Drafters on your team still coordinate between disciplines, catch what the request missed, mentor new staff, and review what Nomic drew. Nomic takes the repetitive production work so the team can take on more projects.

Plans, layouts, details, schedules, and sheets across architecture, structure, MEP, and fire protection. Common starting points are power and lighting layouts, sprinkler layouts, ductwork, plumbing plans, details in house style, equipment schedules, existing conditions from site photos, and redline pickup.

The same way the team reviews a junior drafter, with less hunting. Everything Nomic drew is clouded, it lists the code checks it ran and the questions it could not answer, and your engineer or architect of record makes the final call and stamps.

No. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files you open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. It does not edit Revit models, and it can hand a modeler DWGs and a change list to link into the model.

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