Practical lessons from 15 years of running CAD, BIM and surveying workflows for US-based AEC firms. No fluff — just the conventions, tooling tips and decisions that actually move drawings to fabrication.
Commercial buyers, title insurers and lenders all ask for surveys, but they don't always need the same one. Here's how to spot which deliverable each party actually needs.
Most outsourced Civil 3D files come back missing styles, broken codes and the wrong assemblies. Here's the template our team standardizes on.
LOD 200 misses too many MEP conflicts. LOD 400 burns budget. LOD 300 is the sweet spot for 90% of renovation engagements.
BFE + 1ft is the new freeboard standard for most Florida coastal counties. Here's what that means for your stamped EC deliverable.
We run both. Here's how we pick which to use based on connection complexity, BIM coordination needs and fabricator preference.
Marketing claims aside, here's where each technology actually wins on accuracy, cost and turnaround for typical AEC projects.
CAD Techies was founded by three drafters who spent their first decade inside US-based AEC firms in Florida, Texas and Ohio. We started this studio because we got tired of seeing outsourced drawings come back broken — wrong line-weights, mismatched layer conventions, fabrication-unfriendly callouts.
Today every account manager at CAD Techies has at least seven years of in-the-trenches drafting experience. They speak the language of the field, not just the studio.
Most of our clients have worked with us for 3+ years. Schedule a 15-minute intro call to see if we're a fit.