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AI Drafting for Hotel Projects

A hotel set is the same handful of guest room types drawn again on every floor, then redrawn each time the brand or the architect moves a headboard wall. Nomic drafts the enlarged guest room plans, guest room floors, corridors, and back-of-house sheets in CAD to the brand standards and your CAD standards, then checks them against the code and the flag's requirements before your engineer reviews and stamps.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • The brand design and construction standards for the flag
  • Architectural floor plans and the guest room furniture plan
  • PTAC or fan coil cutsheets and the mechanical design criteria
  • Your CAD standards file and title block
  • The code editions and accessibility standard the project is designed to

Nomic hands back

  • Enlarged guest room plans for every room type and hand
  • Guest room floor power, lighting, and mechanical plans as DWG files
  • Corridor and back-of-house plans
  • Fan coil or PTAC schedules in Excel and on the sheet
  • Brand conflicts and open questions listed for the engineer 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

Every guest room change ripples through every floor

A 168-key hotel might have a standard king, a double queen, a king suite, and accessible versions of each, stacked across six guest room floors. The brand standards manual sets where the bedside receptacles go, which outlets carry USB, how the entry light is switched, and what the PTAC or vertical fan coil needs. When the architect slides the bathroom wall four inches or the owner swaps the furniture package, every enlarged plan and every floor that uses that room type has to be updated by hand.

The rooms that break the pattern cause most of the trouble. Accessible rooms with roll-in showers, corner rooms that pick up a column, and the suite over the porte-cochere each need their own layout, and those are the rooms that slip through review with a receptacle hidden behind the headboard or a strobe missing from a room with communication features.

01 / Typical rooms

Draw the room type once, place it on every floor

Send the guest room furniture plan, the brand standards, and the floor plans. Nomic lays out each room type on an enlarged plan, then places the right type, hand, and accessible variant in every key on every floor. When the king room changes, Nomic carries the revision to every floor that uses the king room.

  • Bedside, desk, and TV receptacles placed to the brand furniture layout
  • Mirrored rooms drawn as true mirrors, with the fan coil on the correct wall
  • Accessible and communication feature rooms called out by key number
02 / Brand and code

Checked against the brand standards and the code

Nomic checks the guest room sheets against the code edition you name and against the brand design standards PDF the owner provides. Rooms that differ from their type, and requirements that the brand and the code both touch, come back as findings for your engineer.

  • Accessible room counts and dispersion across room classes
  • Visible alarm notification in rooms with communication features
  • Brand requirements for USB outlets, night lights, and switching
03 / Corridors and back-of-house

Corridors, fan coils, and back-of-house on the same set

Past the guest rooms, a hotel set still needs corridor lighting with egress illumination, the PTAC or vertical fan coil schedule, and the laundry, kitchen, and pool equipment rooms on the ground floor. Nomic drafts those sheets from the same backgrounds and builds the equipment schedules in Excel and on the sheet.

  • Corridor egress lighting on the emergency circuit
  • PTAC or vertical fan coil units scheduled by room type
  • Laundry, kitchen, and pool equipment connections from cutsheets

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.

  • NEC 210.60 and 210.70(B) for guest rooms
  • 2010 ADA Standards Section 224
  • IBC 907.5.2.3.2 visible alarms in Group R-1
  • NFPA 101 Sections 7.8 and 7.9 egress lighting
  • ASHRAE 90.1 guest room controls
  • The brand design and construction 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 enlarged guest room plans and the guest room floors. It lays out each room type from the furniture plan, places every type and hand on every floor, and checks the result against the code and the brand standards before your engineer reviews it.

Nomic reads the brand design and construction standards PDF you attach and follows it for receptacle locations, USB outlets, switching, and guest room equipment. Where the brand standard and the code disagree, Nomic flags the conflict instead of choosing. The check is only as current as the brand standard version you provide.

Nomic counts the mobility and communication feature rooms tagged on the plans and compares them with the 2010 ADA Standards tables for the number of keys, including roll-in showers and dispersion across room classes. The architect decides which rooms are accessible, and Nomic reports where the tags fall short.

Attach the new background and Nomic redraws the affected room type, carries the change to every floor that uses that type, and clouds what moved. Rooms that no longer match their type, like a corner room that picked up a column, are listed so your team can decide how to handle each one.

No. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files you open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. On hotels modeled in Revit, Nomic delivers DWGs and change lists your modelers link into the model.

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