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AI Drafting for Architecture Firms

Architecture firms lose construction document weeks to production work: picking up redlines, chasing door numbers between the plan and the schedule, and redrawing the same enlarged toilet room on every floor. Nomic drafts floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, enlarged plans, schedules, and life safety plans as DWG files in your office standards, then checks them against the IBC, the 2010 ADA Standards, and ICC A117.1 before your architect reviews.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • Design development backgrounds or the current CD set as DWG or PDF
  • Your CAD standards, title block, and wall type and door type legends
  • Marked-up plots or Bluebeam markups for redline pickup
  • The code analysis and the IBC and accessibility editions the project uses

Nomic hands back

  • Floor plans, RCPs, enlarged plans, and life safety plans as DWG files
  • Door, hardware, and finish schedules in Excel and on the sheet
  • Plotted PDFs with every change clouded, plus a transmittal
  • A findings list and open questions for the architect of record
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On the sheet

Floor Plan, annotated

An architectural floor plan with walls, doors, room tags, and the column grid every other discipline draws on.

  1. 1Exterior wall with window openings
  2. 2Door, swing, and door tag
  3. 3Room name and number
  4. 4Partition type tag

The problem

The CD set is where architecture hours go

Once design development wraps, most of the hours on a project go to documentation. A project architect marks up a plotted set in red, and someone spends two days picking up wall tags, room names, door swings, and dimension strings across 14 sheets. Every door that moves on the plan also has to move in the door schedule, the hardware sets, and the life safety plan, and the copy that gets missed comes back as an RFI during framing.

Accessibility is where small drafting errors get expensive. A water closet drawn 19 inches off the side wall, or a door with 12 inches of latch side clearance on the pull side where a front approach needs 18, reads fine at 1/8" scale and fails at plan check or final inspection. Checking every enlarged plan against the ADA Standards and ICC A117.1 by hand is the job nobody has time for in the week before the permit submittal.

01 / Plans and schedules

Floor plans, RCPs, and schedules from one set of tags

Describe the sheet and attach the design development backgrounds. Nomic drafts the floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, and enlarged plans in CAD on your layers, numbers rooms and doors in your format, and builds the door and finish schedules from the doors and rooms it drew, in Excel and on the sheet.

  • Wall types, room tags, door tags, and dimension strings in your standards
  • Ceiling grid, soffits, heights, and fixtures from the lighting layout
  • Door, frame, hardware set, and finish schedules built from the plan
02 / Redlines

Redline pickup across the whole set

Scan the marked-up plots or send the Bluebeam file. Nomic reads each mark, edits the DWGs, clouds and tags every change with the revision number, updates the title blocks, and carries the change into the door schedule and life safety plan where it touches them. Any mark Nomic cannot read goes on a list for the project architect and stays off the sheet.

  • Hand redlines from scanned plots and Bluebeam markups
  • Revision clouds, deltas, and title block revision rows updated
  • Plotted set and transmittal ready for the project architect
03 / Check

Checked against the IBC and accessibility before it goes out

Nomic checks its own sheets against the code editions you name and the project code analysis. Enlarged plans are checked for clearances and mounting heights, the life safety plan for occupant load, egress width, and travel distance, and the door schedule for clear widths and fire ratings, so your architect starts from a findings list.

  • ADA 2010 Standards and ICC A117.1 clearances on enlarged plans
  • Occupant load, egress width, and travel distance on the life safety plan
  • Rated door labels matched to the wall ratings on the plan

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.

  • International Building Code
  • 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design
  • ICC A117.1
  • NFPA 101 where the jurisdiction adopts it
  • The project code analysis
  • Your office CAD standards

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

Yes. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files for floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, enlarged plans, life safety plans, and door and finish schedules. It drafts from your backgrounds in your office standards and checks the sheets against the IBC and accessibility standards before your architect reviews them.

Nomic is not a plugin for either program. It saves DWG files to the project that open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. Offices that document in Revit get DWGs and a change list that a modeler links or picks up in the model, and Nomic does not edit the Revit model.

Yes. Nomic reads scanned hand markups and Bluebeam markups, edits the DWGs, clouds and tags every change, updates the title blocks, plots the set, and writes the transmittal. Marks it cannot read are listed for the project architect instead of guessed at.

The editions you name, usually the 2010 ADA Standards plus the ICC A117.1 edition your state adopts through IBC Chapter 11. Nomic checks clear floor spaces, turning space, fixture and grab bar locations, door maneuvering clearances, and mounting heights, and cites the section for each finding.

The architect of record. Nomic is a new source of drafting capacity for your team. Design decisions, code interpretations with the building official, and the stamp stay with your architect, and every line Nomic drew is clouded so review starts with what changed.

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