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AI As-Built and Record Drawing Drafting

Record drawings are due at closeout, when the project team has moved on and the contractor's redlined set is a stack of field prints with pencil, highlighter, and sticky notes. Nomic reads the field markups and redlined sets, edits the construction DWGs to match, clouds and tags every change, sets the title blocks to record, and lists what changed, so the design team reviews a finished record set instead of drafting one.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • The contractor's redlined field set, scanned or as Bluebeam markups
  • The construction document DWGs
  • RFI, ASI, bulletin, and change order logs
  • Final utility or as-built survey where the contract requires one
  • Your record drawing title block, revision, and note standards

Nomic hands back

  • Record drawing DWGs with every change clouded and tagged
  • Title blocks set to record with issue date and record note
  • Plotted PDF record set and a transmittal
  • A change list in Excel with flagged and illegible marks
1234567ABCOFFICE401OFFICE402OFFICE403OFFICE404OFFICE405OFFICE406OFFICE407OFFICE408CONFERENCE409CONFERENCE410CONFERENCE411CONFERENCE412OPEN OFFICE413STAIRS2MOVE DOOR 2'-0" EASTADD 2 RECEPTS, VIFOK?27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"94'-8"1AFLOOR PLAN REVIEWSCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"N1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTHARBOR POINT OFFICESSCALE1/8" = 1'-0"DATE02/16/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLEFLOOR PLAN REVIEWSHEET NUMBERA-101

On the sheet

Floor Plan Review, annotated

A review set with redline markups: clouded changes, notes, strike-outs, and questions back to the designer.

  1. 1Clouded area with a requested change
  2. 2Markup note from the reviewer
  3. 3Item struck out for removal
  4. 4Field verification request

The problem

Closeout redlines sit in a flat file until someone has time to draft them

By substantial completion the contractor's as-built set might hold 400 marks across architectural, structural, and MEP sheets: a relocated cleanout, a duct main dropped 8 inches to clear a beam, footings deepened where the soil was soft, a door added by change order, utility inverts from the final survey. The marks are in different hands and colors, some reference an RFI or ASI instead of drawing the change, and a few are simply illegible.

Turning that into record DWGs comes at the end of the fee, when most of the budget is spent, so the redlines wait. When someone finally picks them up, the risk is a missed mark, a change drafted on the wrong sheet, or a record set that does not say which information came from the contractor. The owner's facilities team inherits whatever was drawn and relies on it for the next renovation.

01 / Pick up

Every field mark read and drafted into the DWGs

Attach the scanned field set or the Bluebeam markups, the construction DWGs, and the RFI, ASI, and change order logs. Nomic reads hand marks and markup comments, edits the matching DWG, and follows referenced RFIs and ASIs to the drawing they changed. Marks it cannot read are listed with the sheet and location rather than guessed.

  • Scanned hand redlines and Bluebeam markups read sheet by sheet
  • RFI, ASI, and change order references traced to the affected sheets
  • Illegible or ambiguous marks flagged for the contractor or design team
02 / Record set

Clouded, tagged, and titled as record drawings

Every change Nomic drafts is clouded and tagged with a record revision, and each title block is updated with the record issue, date, and the record drawing note your firm uses to say the set reflects information supplied by the contractor. The set is plotted and a transmittal is written for the owner.

  • Revision clouds and delta tags on every drafted change
  • Title blocks set to record with issue date and disclaimer note
  • Plotted PDF set and transmittal ready for the owner
03 / Changes

A list of what changed, by sheet

Nomic hands back a change list in Excel with every mark, the sheet it landed on, its source, and whether it was drafted or flagged. The design team reviews that list against the set, and the contractor can answer the flagged marks in one pass instead of a back and forth over prints.

  • Each change listed with sheet, location, and source document
  • Flagged marks grouped for the contractor to clarify
  • Change list the owner can keep with the record set

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.

  • The contractor's as-built markups
  • RFI responses, ASIs, and change orders
  • Specification Section 01 78 39 Project Record Documents
  • AIA A201 record document requirements, where used
  • Your firm record drawing and 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

As-built drawings are the contractor's marked up set showing how the work was actually installed. Record drawings are the design team's DWGs updated to reflect those markups and issued to the owner, usually with a note that they rely on information the contractor supplied. Nomic drafts the record drawings from the as-built markups.

Yes. Nomic reads scanned hand redlines and Bluebeam markups, edits the matching DWG files, and clouds and tags every change. Marks it cannot read are listed with the sheet and location so someone who was on site can clarify them.

The contractor is responsible for the accuracy of the as-built markups, and the design team reviews and issues the record set. Nomic drafts the markups into the DWGs and lists what changed, but it does not verify field conditions, so responsibility stays where the contract puts it.

Nomic follows the reference to the RFI response, ASI, or change order in the logs you attach and drafts the change on every sheet it affects, including schedules. If the referenced document is missing, the mark is flagged.

No. Nomic does not edit Revit models and is not an AutoCAD plugin. It saves record DWGs and a change list that your modelers can use to update the model if the owner requires a record model.

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