More MEP drafting capacity with the same team

More drafting capacity. Same headcount.

For an MEPF drafting company, the number of projects it can take on often comes down to one thing: how much work its engineering and drafting team can handle. Growing the team adds capacity, but it also means more hiring, training, and cost.

RayCAD is a Revit plugin for automated MEPF tagging and annotation. It takes repetitive tagging work off your team's plate, so engineers and drafters have more hours to use elsewhere, and you do not need to add people for every increase in workload.

The capacity already inside your team

Take a 20-floor building with four A1 drawing sheets per floor. That is 80 sheets that need tagging and annotation.

Assume each sheet takes around four hours to tag by hand. The project then needs 320 hours of drafting work. With four drafters working eight hours a day, that is 10 working days spent on tagging alone.

Now run the same project with RayCAD.

Instead of assigning four drafters to place and arrange tags by hand, one engineer handles the tagging process with RayCAD.

RayCAD generates the tags for each sheet within minutes, following the company's configured tagging standards. The engineer then reviews the output and makes any adjustments that are needed.

For this example, assume:

• RayCAD takes an average of 2 minutes to generate tags for each sheet.
• The engineer spends another 40 minutes reviewing each sheet and making adjustments.
• That is 42 minutes per sheet: 2 minutes of automated tagging and 40 minutes of review.

Across all 80 sheets, RayCAD spends about 2 hours and 40 minutes generating tags, and one engineer spends about 53 hours and 20 minutes reviewing them. Together that is 56 hours of tagging and review time, against 320 hours of manual tagging.

That is 264 staff hours available for other work.

The bigger benefit is how the team can be allocated. Four people are no longer tied up with tagging. Three can work on other tasks or projects while one engineer handles the tagging and review.

For an MEPF drafting company with several projects running at once, this is a way to raise overall project capacity without adding headcount at the same rate.

This is a hypothetical example, not a measured RayCAD benchmark. Actual tagging and review times depend on project complexity, model conditions, and company standards. The hours made available are staff-hours. They are not guaranteed calendar-time savings or extra revenue.

Try it with your own numbers.

What can your team do with that capacity?

• Take on additional project work. When demand is there, the freed-up hours make it easier to accept more scope without increasing headcount at the same rate.
• Keep projects moving in parallel. Fewer people are tied up placing tags, so more of the team can work on modeling, coordination, and other deliverables.
• Handle busy periods without hiring right away. Large drawing packages and submission deadlines create temporary spikes in workload. Automation gives teams more room to absorb them.
• Spend more time on engineering judgment. Drafters and engineers can put more attention into model quality, coordination, and drawing review instead of repetitive annotation.

Grow your output, not just your team size

The opportunity is more than finishing the same tagging task faster. It is to increase the amount of useful work your existing team can deliver.

That does not mean every hour recovered becomes new revenue. It means your firm has more capacity to allocate to current projects, additional work, or better quality checks. Your team still reviews drawings before issue.

Try RayCAD on your Revit drawings and measure how much tagging capacity your team can get back.