CAD Copilot

The copilot model keeps a human at the keyboard. The assistant sits inside or beside the CAD application and helps with the step in front of the user: explaining a command, writing a script to rename layers, finding a block, or suggesting the next action. It works well for learning a tool and for short repetitive edits, and it fits firms that want help without changing who touches the drawing. Its limit is that the drafter's time is still the bottleneck, since the person drives every sheet and the assistant waits between requests. A copilot also tends to know the software better than the project, so it rarely knows which background is current or how the firm details a fire-rated wall. The alternative is delegating whole drawing tasks to an agent and reviewing the output. Nomic takes the delegation route: you describe the drawing and attach the inputs, and the finished sheet comes back for review. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, saves real DWG files to the project in your layers, blocks, and title blocks, and checks each drawing against the code edition you name and the source documents before your licensed professionals review and stamp it.

A drafter asks an assistant to write a script that moves every tag on a legacy layer to the firm's annotation layer.. A junior designer asks why a viewport plots at the wrong scale and gets the steps to fix the annotation scale.. A team compares a copilot that helps one command at a time with an agent that returns a finished lighting plan for review.