Digital Drawings
All BIM and CAD
drafting is done
in-house, allowing
quick turn-around of
modifications. This
also results in
clean and
accurate BIM
and CAD files.
Our objective is to provide complete and accurate BIM and CAD drawings. Whether your needs include converting paper drawings to digital, field measuring spaces and creating new drawings, making modifications to markups, or “fixing” drawings from another CAD program, MicroCADD Solutions can be your single source for BIM and CAD services.
We are your source for updating existing files or beginning a new project. Some clients have supplied digital photographs of large sites, complete with PDF markups. Some prefer to work in a design team environment remotely and on-site. Every project is an opportunity for training clients.
Examples of our work include:
- Documenting an assembly or product
- Creating construction documents including as-built drawings
- Preparing BIM and CAD files for facilities management uses
- Drawings required for permits, emergency evacuation and location maps
Creating Content
As in the early days of CAD, many architects, designers and engineers found that standard symbols used in their drawings were not available, and they had to spend time building libraries of standard symbols and details.
Why do symbols and components need to be recreated in Revit instead of leaving them in AutoCAD?
Because BIM is a different environment, the same process needs to take place. In the short term, CAD files can be brought into the BIM environment, but this adds excessive overhead. The file size increases and response time in the drawing is longer. There is also less control over the graphics. The best practice is to convert those CAD files into BIM. If the file format is DWG (AutoCAD), you will want it to become an RVT (Revit project file) or RFA (Revit family file) for use in multiple projects going forward.
We have created content that is hosted on various sites, including Autodesk Seek, other hosting sites, as well as on manufacturer specific sites.
Within Revit, symbols (called Families) have more functionality within the graphics. Family creation contains not only the graphics of how each symbol or component appears, but adds control to the user in the form of parameters to adjust the component (finishes, sizes, etc.) as well as manufacturer data and performance data, which can be used in generating schedules.