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AI drafting for AutoCAD

AI for AutoCAD Drafting

Most of an AutoCAD drafter's day goes to setup and repetition: attaching backgrounds, freezing layers in viewports, inserting the same blocks, and filling in title block attributes sheet after sheet. Nomic does that drafting in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files to your project, so your team opens them in AutoCAD or any DWG editor and reviews the work the way they would review a drafter's.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • A sentence describing the sheet or set
  • Architectural backgrounds as DWG, or PDF if that is all you have
  • Your template DWT, standards DWS, and block library
  • A past project drawn the way you want this one drawn
  • The code editions the project is designed to

Nomic hands back

  • DWG files with model space drawn and paper space layouts set up
  • Backgrounds attached as xrefs with relative paths
  • Plotted PDFs with revision clouds on everything Nomic drew
  • An open questions list for the engineer or architect of record
1234567ABCOFFICE401OFFICE402OFFICE403OPEN OFFICE404OFFICE405OFFICE406OFFICE407CONFERENCE408CONFERENCE409CONFERENCE410CONFERENCE411CONFERENCE412CONFERENCE413STAIRS2401402403404405406P127'-3"27'-0"27'-3"27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"94'-8"1AFLOOR PLANSCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"N1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTHARBOR POINT OFFICESSCALE1/8" = 1'-0"DATE11/18/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLEFLOOR PLANSHEET NUMBERA-101

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 drafting around the design eats the AutoCAD hours

On a typical CD set, the design decisions take a fraction of the AutoCAD time. The rest goes to attaching the latest architectural xref, rebuilding viewport freezes that broke when the architect renamed layers, inserting tags and filling block attributes, and setting page setups so the set plots with the right CTB file. A 40-sheet set can carry well over a hundred viewports, and each one needs its scale locked and its layers frozen correctly.

The errors that reach review are mechanical: a tag on the wrong layer that plots at the wrong lineweight, an xref attached with an absolute path that breaks when the project folder moves, text sized for one viewport scale and unreadable in another, a revision date that never changed on three sheets. Senior people catch those by eye, and every one they catch is time taken from reviewing the design.

01 / Handoff

Hand off what you would give a drafter

Send a sentence describing the sheet, the architectural backgrounds, and your template DWG. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, draws in model space on your layers with your blocks, and sets up paper space layouts with viewports at the scale you asked for. You get DWG files saved to the project and plotted PDFs for markup.

  • Architectural backgrounds attached as xrefs on your xref layer
  • Layouts built on your title block with viewports scaled and locked
  • Tags and title block attributes filled from the project sheet index
02 / Layers and blocks

Layers, blocks, and xrefs the way your template has them

Nomic reads your template DWG and the last project your team drew, then uses the same layer names, block definitions, attribute tags, and text styles. Devices and tags come in as blocks with attributes your data extraction can read, and Nomic keeps geometry off layer 0 and Defpoints.

  • Layer names, colors, and linetypes from your template or DWS file
  • Your symbol library inserted as blocks with attributes filled
  • Viewport layer freezes set sheet by sheet
03 / Check

Checked before the files come back to you

Before saving, Nomic checks the drawing against your CAD standards, the architectural xref, and the code edition you name. Everything Nomic drew is clouded on the plotted set, and anything Nomic could not resolve goes on an open questions list for your reviewer.

  • Layer and style names checked against your standards file
  • Xref paths, viewport scales, and page setups verified
  • Code checks for the drawing type, such as NEC for power plans

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 DWS file
  • US National CAD Standard layer and sheet conventions
  • The architectural backgrounds and sheet index
  • NEC, IBC, or the code edition you name for the drawing

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

No. Nomic is not an AutoCAD plugin, add-in, or extension, and nothing gets installed in your copy of AutoCAD. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files to your project, which your team opens in AutoCAD or any DWG editor.

Yes. Describe the drawing, attach the backgrounds and your template, and Nomic saves DWG files with your layers, blocks, xrefs, and layouts set up. Your team opens the files in AutoCAD, edits anything they want, and reviews the sheets like work from another drafter.

Yes. Nomic attaches the architectural backgrounds as xrefs, builds paper space layouts on your title block, sets viewport scales, and freezes layers per viewport. Tell Nomic how your projects are organized, including folder structure and xref naming, and the files follow that setup.

Yes. Nomic plots PDFs with your page setups and plot style table, with revision clouds on everything Nomic drew. Your reviewer can mark up the PDFs or open the DWGs directly.

Your team sets the design intent and criteria, reviews every sheet, and makes the final call. The engineer or architect of record stamps the drawings. Nomic adds drafting capacity alongside your drafters and CAD managers.

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