Revit automation for BIM drafting companies: tag every client's standard

A drafting services firm sells drafter hours. Every hour a drafter spends tagging is an hour you either bill at a thin margin or lose on a fixed fee. RayCAD is a Revit plugin that does the tagging on MEPF shop drawings, to each client's standard, and your drafters review the sheet.

Today RayCAD covers HVAC and piping: ducts, flex ducts, fittings, air terminals, mechanical equipment, pipes, pipe fittings, pipe accessories, and fabrication ductwork. Electrical and fire protection come next.

Where tagging costs a drafting firm

• Every client has a standard. Text, leaders, what gets tagged, and where. Drafters switch between them and get them wrong.
• Fixed fees. Tagging time that runs over comes out of your margin, not the client's.
• Turnaround wins work. Clients pick the firm that sends sheets back first.
• Hiring. More projects usually means more drafters, and good ones are hard to find and train.

What RayCAD does about it

• One preset per client. Configure a client's standard once, with their tag families, and every drafter tags to it. See firm standards.
• Tags a view in one run, then lists anything it could not place. See intelligent placement.
• Retags after the client's comments. Select what changed and run Retag, and the rest of the sheet stays.
• Same price however many drafters you have. One subscription covers the company.

Orbit Engineering Services, an Australian HVAC detailing firm, reports about 70% less tagging time with RayCAD. That is tagging time, not total turnaround.

For your drafters

They stop placing and nudging tags and start checking sheets. RayCAD uses the client's tag families, so the work looks the same as before, and nothing goes to the client until a drafter has reviewed it.

For your BIM lead

A new drafter tags to the client's standard from the first day, because the standard lives in the preset, not in their head. One installer covers Revit 2021 to 2027, so it works across clients on different Revit versions.

For the owner

Tagging hours come straight off your cost. The same team delivers more sheets, so you take on more projects without hiring, and you can quote shorter turnaround. Work out your numbers with the capacity calculator.

Try it

One $200 monthly plan covers the whole company, with a license for every user. The 15-day trial is unlimited, has every feature, and needs no card. See pricing.