Pre-sales Drawing Production
Pre-sales drawing production turns a concept brief and a reference project library into a pitch-ready drawing set — site plan, typical floor plans, elevation, key sections — sized for the bid deadline. Available now as a Labs engagement under MSA + Appendix, it runs through the firm’s Revit or AutoCAD standards and emits model + PDF deliverables ready for the pitch.
- Pitch-ready drawing set in days, not weeks, calibrated per deployment against your existing bid timelines.
- Drawings carry the firm’s title-block, line-weights, view templates, and naming standards from day 1 of the engagement.
- Re-runs on brief revisions are scoped to the changed sheets only, keeping senior staff on live projects.
From all-hands-on-the-pitch to run-the-agent.
Workflow today
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RFP arrives
Day 0. Project lead reads the brief, pulls past bids from the server, and sketches a concept on tracing paper, in Rhino, or directly in Revit. No one touches the firm’s Revit template or AutoCAD title-block until the concept feels stable, so schedule pressure builds from the first hour.
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Senior staff redirected onto the pitch
Day 1–5. Architects come off live projects to model the typical floor plate, elevation, and site plan in Revit or AutoCAD. They rebuild known typologies by hand instead of reusing a structured library. Live work slips a week, and coordination tasks like BIM-to-BOQ automation stall while everyone chases the bid.
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Drawings rushed to title-block
Day 4–6. Someone finally opens the Revit template or AutoCAD CTB file and rushes sheets to the title-block the night before submission. Line-weights vary between views, view templates are applied inconsistently, and title-block fields are filled by hand. No one checks against VitruAI + Revit or VitruAI + AutoCAD standards because there is no time.
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Pitch ships
Day 7. Drawings are good enough to win, not good enough to reuse. The team rebuilds half the drawings post-award to reach coordination and documentation quality, instead of handing off a structured model to workflows like shop drawing automation or downstream BOQ extraction.
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Workflow with VitruAI
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Run the Pre-sales Drawings Agent
Day 1, ~2 hours. BIM Manager runs the Pre-sales Drawings Agent against the RFP brief, the firm’s typology library, and the Revit or AutoCAD title-block template. The agent pulls standard unit layouts, cores, and parking schemes, then builds a working model in VitruAI + Revit or a DWG-based stack in VitruAI + AutoCAD.
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Review the generated set
Day 1–2. The agent emits site plan, typical floor plan, elevation, and key sections to the firm’s pitch standards, including view templates, annotation styles, and sheet naming. Project lead redlines only the sheets that miss the design intent, instead of rebuilding the entire set. Early models already align with later BIM-to-BOQ automation needs.
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Iterate on changed sheets
Day 2–4. As the brief evolves, the agent re-runs on changed sheets only, leaving unaffected views and annotations intact. Senior staff stay on live projects while a coordinator drives iterations through the Pre-sales Drawings Agent. Each pass updates the Revit or DWG set without breaking the title-block, view templates, or export settings.
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Ship the pitch
Day 5. The drawing set is pitch-ready and structured for reuse post-award, so the awarded team can move directly into coordination, shop drawing automation, or BIM-to-BOQ automation. Instead of rebuilding from PDFs, they inherit a model and sheet set aligned to the firm’s standards and the original bid assumptions.
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Pre-sales drawing production — common questions
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How is this different from the firm’s existing Revit template library?
A Revit template or AutoCAD title-block gives you the frame; pre-sales drawing production fills it with project-specific content. The Pre-sales Drawings Agent uses your templates, view templates, and line-weight standards as inputs, then generates the modelled typologies and laid-out sheets inside them. You keep owning and updating the template library; the agent automates the repetitive modelling and sheet setup that previously consumed senior staff time.
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Does this work for AutoCAD-only firms?
Yes, the same workflow supports AutoCAD-first practices where pitch standards live in DWG. The Labs engagement configures VitruAI + AutoCAD to read your CTB files, title-blocks, and layer conventions, then emit DWG sheets that drop into your existing plotting workflow. When you later introduce VitruAI + Revit, the same pre-sales logic can target both toolchains for different studios or markets.
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What’s the engagement model?
Pre-sales drawing production is available as a Labs engagement under MSA + Appendix, typically over 4–8 weeks. The team calibrates the Pre-sales Drawings Agent against your typology library, title-blocks, and pitch deliverable conventions, then runs it on at least one live bid. Each Labs cycle ships a working agent for that bid and a short report on accuracy and run-times, which then feeds into the productised release path.
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Can the same agent do post-award shop drawings?
Pre-sales drawing production targets conceptual and persuasive drawings, not fabrication-grade documentation. Shop drawings require tighter tolerances, trade coordination, and integration with fabrication models, which is a different workflow. For that stage, firms pair the pre-sales workflow with shop drawing automation and downstream BIM-to-BOQ automation once the project is awarded and the model matures.