Architectural drafting involves translating and formalizing rough ideas and sketches of the designer. An extremely technical line of work, this is best left to the hands of an expert.

An architectural drafter’s job is one of tremendous responsibility. A drafter must have a sound understanding of the project and the client requirements. Designing and drafting work hand in hand. However, the latter is considered to be more important because it is the consolidation of everything that an engineer and a designer put together.

An architectural drafter is a technician who is trained to give a formal shape to the ideas and rough sketches of engineers and designers. These ideas are converted into working drawings based on certain established industry standards. The responsibilities of an architectural drafter are many: he/she must possess a great deal of creative skills and be able to work in an organized manner-- consolidating and interpreting directions and also be able to draw to scale. Architectural drafting also employs the drafters’ ability to analyze specific structural, electrical, and mechanical components of a building. Furthermore, based on these various interpretations and the resulting analysis, the drafter prepares specifications and also estimates the costs that would be involved.

The aforesaid makes architectural drafting sound like a job that involves putting everything together so that an engineer can take the show forward. But that is not quite how it works. Architectural drafting also requires the drafter to verify whatever survey and layout work may go on when the construction phase begins. Architectural drafting involves extensive mathematical and graphical work in order to draw floor plans, illustrations, structural drawings, electrical and mechanical systems, etc.

Once again, this is that side of the story you will not be dealing with. Leave it to the professionals at red: rain Solutions to adeptly handle the calculations and illustrations and complete a project just the way it was on paper; precisely the way you had envisioned it.