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Case study · Drawing to CAD conversion
School campus records: paper archives to layered CAD
Decades of scanned paper drawings redrawn as clean, layered and dimensioned CAD files for a school campus estates team.
- Client: campus estates team
- Sector: education
- Delivered: 320 converted sheets
- Duration: 6 weeks
320 sheetsConverted and checked
CAD · sheetsLayered to the estate’s standard
About the project
Drawings nobody could edit
An estates team managed a campus of buildings from several decades, recorded only as scanned paper drawings of varying quality.
They needed editable CAD files to plan maintenance, space changes and future projects without redrawing every time.
What we delivered
- Redrawn floor plans
- Sections and elevations
- Room numbering and areas
- Layered CAD files
- Printed sheet sets
- Query log for unreadable areas
Poor source quality
Faded prints, stains and missing scales.
Mixed standards
Each building had been drawn a different way.
Large volume
Hundreds of sheets on a fixed budget.
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Our process
From source files to drawing set in six steps
How the drawings were produced, checked and issued.
- 01
Source review
Design drawings, PDFs and markups checked for gaps.
- 02
Standards set-up
Client template, layers and title blocks loaded.
- 03
Drafting
Plans, sections, elevations and details drawn to scale.
- 04
Coordination
Consultant information cross-checked on every sheet.
- 05
QA check
Independent review of dimensions, notes and references.
- 06
Issue
Drawing sets issued with a drawing register.
Our solution
Redrawn, not traced
Every sheet was redrawn to written dimensions on one consistent layer standard, with anything unreadable logged instead of guessed.
- 0Sheets converted
- 0Buildings
- 0 wksStart to finish
Dimensions first
Written dimensions always took priority over measured lines.
One layer standard
Every building delivered on the same convention.
Query log
Unclear areas listed for checking on site.
Batch delivery
Buildings issued in batches so the team could start using them.
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