Why convert your paper documents into CAD drawing files?

If you’re planning a remodel, tenant improvement or an addition and you have old blue prints, drawings or maybe you’ve sketched ideas for a new home. Either case you will need to convert these paper drawings into a CAD file drawing so that an architect or designer may develop your project.

REASONS FOR CONVERTING | HOW TO CONVERT | TYPES DRAWING TO CONVERT | HOW DOES CONVESION WORK

Reason for converting your drawings into autoCAD

We convert your paper drawings into accurate cad drawings files for use by others on your projects.
You maybe concerned about deteriorating paper drawings would soon be unusable or could easily be destroyed by fire or water damage.
We can transform your important paper documents while ensuring that the digital translations meet the strictest project requirements
Your paper drawings are subject to wear & tear, fade with time. While electronic files on the other hand can be reviewed, edited & plotted with ease..
If you have archives drawings in paper format and wanted to be able to access from their CAD systems.

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How to convert your drawings into CAD

Some companies transform paper drawings and scanned images to AutoCAD format by means of raster to vector conversion or digitizing them, which creates inaccurate CAD drawings do to distortion of the image in scanning or by trying to fade old hand drawing. CD Draft knows you want workable AutoCAD files, so we create them for you by:

We manual redraw your sheets or files to insure a quality 100% accurate CAD drawing.
We use your existing CAD block and layering system files or the AIA Layer and CAD block.
Use you reference CAD background, line styles, fonts and dimensions styles.
We send you an AutoCAD "eTransmit" with the attached folds & files to preserve your drawing file setup use of dwg, xref, block inserts and image files.

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Types of drawing or files to convert

We will redraw everything on your sheet unless you have noted otherwise and handle all commercial and residential projects.

Raster image to CAD Conversion.
Scanned documents to CAD Conversion.
Velum or Blueprint to CAD Conversion.
Hand sketches to CAD Conversion.
Pdf, tiff, bmp or jpeg files to CAD Conversion.
Work on architectural, structural engineering and landscape drawings.

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How does our Paper to CAD service work?

Service begins by contract us about your project and describing the type of drawings, the sheet sizes and the number of sheet in the set of drawings. We will send you a proposal with a description of the scope of service. If you approve our proposal, we start by:

Send us a copy or the original of the drawings you need converted.
Mark and note any changes, omissions, or addition to the drawings and/or notation you need.
Give us a description and a sample drawing of your set up (paper space and model space), use of xrefs, sheet layout, CAD layering, other background, line styles, fonts and dimensions.
We manual redraw each sheets using your drawing setup and office standard conversion,
We send you the original sheets or files along with CAD dwg files, pdf files and /or printed sheet per your request.

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