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AI Structural Schedule Drafting

Structural schedules are where a framing plan, a foundation plan, and the engineer's analysis all have to agree, and they drift apart every time a member changes. Nomic drafts column, beam, footing, lintel, and shear wall schedules in Excel and on the sheet, then checks every tag on the plans against a schedule row before your engineer of record reviews and stamps.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • Member list or analysis model export in Excel
  • The engineer's marked up schedules or sketches
  • Framing and foundation plans that carry the tags
  • Your schedule formats, text styles, and title block

Nomic hands back

  • Column, beam, footing, lintel, and shear wall schedules in Excel
  • The same schedules drawn on the sheet as DWG files
  • A tag cross-check listing mismatches by sheet
  • Clouded revisions and a change list for the engineer of record
1234567ABCF2F2F2F2F25" SLAB ON GRADEW/ 6x6-W2.9 WWF OVER 15 MIL VBTOP OF FOOTING EL. 96'-0" U.N.O. | ALLOWABLE BEARING 3,000 PSF27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"27'-3"27'-0"27'-3"94'-8"1AFOUNDATION PLANSCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"N1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTMAPLE RIDGE SCHOOLSCALE1/8" = 1'-0"DATE01/15/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLEFOUNDATION PLANSHEET NUMBERS-101

On the sheet

Foundation Plan, annotated

A foundation plan with spread footings at each column, continuous wall footings, and the slab on grade.

  1. 1Spread footing under each column
  2. 2Footing tag keyed to the schedule
  3. 3Continuous wall footing at the perimeter
  4. 4Slab on grade note

The problem

Schedules drift away from the plans they describe

A mid-rise concrete building can carry a column schedule with 40 column marks across eight tiers, each with its own size, vertical bars, tie spacing, and splice location, plus a beam schedule listing top bars, bottom bars, and stirrups for every beam mark. The table is typed by hand into CAD, then retyped when the engineer changes a bar size, and nothing on the sheet tells you a C12 on the plan no longer exists in the schedule.

Masonry and wood buildings have their own versions of the problem. A lintel schedule has to cover every opening width on the elevations, and a shear wall schedule has to list sheathing, nailing, and hold-downs for every SW mark on the plans. The mismatches usually surface in the contractor's RFIs or the rebar detailer's questions, after the set is issued.

01 / Build

Schedules built straight from the engineer's data

Attach the member list, the analysis export, or the engineer's marked up schedule. Nomic builds each schedule in Excel and draws the same table on the sheet in your text styles and grid format, so the two stay identical. Column tiers, splice levels, and bar callouts follow how your firm laid out the same schedule on past projects.

  • Steel and concrete column schedules by grid line and tier
  • Concrete beam schedules with top bars, bottom bars, and stirrups
  • Lintel and wood shear wall schedules with bearing, nailing, and hold-downs
02 / Match

Every plan tag traced to a schedule row

Nomic reads the tags on the framing and foundation plans and compares them with each schedule in both directions. A tag on the plan with no row, a row nobody uses, and a size that differs between plan and schedule are all listed, so the engineer resolves them before issue rather than in an RFI.

  • Plan tags with no matching schedule row listed by sheet
  • Unused schedule rows flagged for the engineer to delete or keep
  • Lintel marks compared with opening widths on the elevations
03 / Revise

One change, carried through plan and schedule

When the engineer changes a member, Nomic updates the schedule row in Excel and on the sheet and the matching tags on the plans, clouds each edit, and writes a change list by sheet. The engineer reviews one list instead of comparing two prints line by line.

  • Excel and sheet schedule updated from one source
  • Matching plan tags revised and clouded
  • Change list by sheet for the engineer's review

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.

  • ACI 318 for concrete column and beam reinforcing
  • AISC 360 for steel members
  • TMS 402 for masonry lintels
  • AWC SDPWS for wood shear walls
  • The engineer's member list and analysis output

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 builds column, beam, footing, lintel, and shear wall schedules in Excel and draws the same tables on the sheet as DWG files. It works from the member list or the engineer's markups and checks every plan tag against the schedule.

No. The engineer of record sizes members and sets reinforcing, nailing, and hold-downs. Nomic drafts the schedule from the engineer's data, flags anything that disagrees between plan and schedule, and leaves the final call to the engineer.

Yes. Every schedule comes back as an Excel file and as a table on the sheet, built from the same data so the two match. Engineers who keep their own schedule spreadsheets can hand those to Nomic as the source.

Nomic reads the tags on every framing and foundation plan and compares them with the schedule rows in both directions. It lists tags with no row, rows with no tag, and sizes that differ, by sheet, so nothing depends on someone scanning prints side by side.

No. Nomic does not edit Revit models and is not an AutoCAD plugin. It saves DWG sheets, Excel schedules, and a change list that your modelers can carry into a Revit schedule if the project is modeled.

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