Design and Shop Drawing Services Shop drawings ready for submittal.
Design and shop drawing services from dedicated drafters and detailers who work in your CAD or BIM software, on your title blocks and standards — millwork, rebar, and flooring shop drawings, with revisions and RFIs tracked through approval. Full-time, part-time, or as-needed.
15 days of free estimating is available to qualified contractors, subject to approval. If you choose to continue afterwards, service moves to a quarterly agreement (3-month term) that renews each quarter until cancelled — full-time, part-time, or as-needed.
- 600+estimators
- 140,000+jobs estimated
- 45 states+ D.C. & PR · Canada · Australia
- 50+trades & scopes
Hiring a drafter is slow, expensive, and risky.
Or have a dedicated drafter working with you in days, not months.
Hiring in-house
| Months | to recruit, interview, and hire an experienced drafter |
|---|---|
| A bad hire | costs you time, rework, and missed deadlines |
| Salary + overhead | salary, benefits, payroll taxes, and office overhead for a full-time drafter |
| No backup | when your one drafter is out, busy, or leaves |
With Bidding Enterprise
- Working with you in days, not monthsA skilled drafter, trained on your standards, typically set up within days.
- A technical support team behind youSenior reviewers and our QA team check your drafter's work and back them up.
- Fully managedHiring, training, QA, and coverage are handled by us.
- Costs far less than hiring in-houseWithout losing any in-house advantages — dedicated to you, in your time zone, on your company email, in your software and your formats.
- AI-enabled, human-verifiedAI-assisted checks speed up the work; your drafter and our QA team check every output.
Shop drawings your reviewers can approve.
Your dedicated drafters produce submittal-ready shop drawings from the contract documents — organized the way your shop and your reviewers expect.
Submittal-ready sets
Plans, elevations, sections, and details drawn from the contract documents, on your title blocks.
Your software and standards
AutoCAD, Revit, Tekla, SolidWorks or Inventor, Microvellum or Cabinet Vision — whatever you use, in your layers and styles.
Schedules and lists
Hardware, finish, and material schedules, bar lists, and cut lists where your software supports them.
Revisions tracked
Reviewer comments, revision clouds, and resubmittals logged sheet by sheet until approval.
RFIs raised early
Conflicts and missing information flagged as questions before they hold up fabrication.
Coordinated with estimating
Drawings that line up with your takeoff, so the shop builds what you bid.
Your drafting room, extended.
Your drafters learn your shop, your standards, and your reviewers — and work in your software as part of your team.
Drafters who are yours
Recruited for your trade, trained on your details and title blocks, working in your time zone.
We build on what you have
Your templates, typical details, and drawing standards stay exactly as you like them.
Checked before it goes out
Every set is reviewed by a senior drafter or our QA team before it reaches you — you approve before submittal.
A clean drawing list, sheet by sheet.
Every set comes with a drawing list, revision history, and open questions. Sample below (illustrative only).
| Sheet | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SD-001 | Cover sheet, general notes & legend | Issued for review |
| SD-101 | Plan views with tags & dimensions | Issued for review |
| SD-201 | Elevations | Revision 1 — comments addressed |
| SD-301 | Sections & details | Issued for review |
| SD-401 | Schedules (hardware / material) | Open RFI #3 |
Build your drafting team.
Tell us what you draw and which software you use. Book a free 1-hour assessment — we'll map the drafting team we'd build; assessment and setup take about an hour, and your drafter is typically working with you within days.
Qualified contractors get 15 days of free estimating — your dedicated drafter works your real projects at no cost, full-time, part-time, or as-needed.
Or reach us: Estimate@Biddingenterprise.com · 718-717-2729
Design and shop drawing services — common questions
What design and shop drawing services do you provide?
We provide design and shop drawing services through dedicated drafters and detailers: millwork and casework shop drawings, rebar shop and placing drawings, and flooring and tile layout drawings. Your drafters work in your CAD or BIM software on your title blocks, track revisions and RFIs through approval, and are backed by our QA and technical managers.
Which software do your drafters use?
Whatever you already use. Our drafters work in AutoCAD, Revit, Tekla, SolidWorks, Inventor, Microvellum, Cabinet Vision, and other CAD and BIM tools — those are just examples — using your layers, blocks, title blocks, and typical details. We build on what you already have instead of asking you to change how your drawings look.
Are your drawings stamped or engineered?
No. Our drafters prepare shop drawings from the contract documents for your review and submittal; they do not provide engineering, design responsibility, or a professional seal. Where a project needs engineered or stamped drawings, that stays with the engineer of record or your licensed professional. You review and approve every set before it is submitted.
Is your drafting AI-enabled?
Yes. Your drafters work with Build Intel and Dexter, our AI co-estimator, which reads specs and details and gives cited answers, and AI-assisted checks flag missing dimensions or tags. AI speeds up the work; your drafter checks every sheet, our QA team reviews the set, and you approve it before submittal.
Can we start with a part-time drafter?
Yes. Many clients start with a part-time or as-needed drafter for busy months and move to full-time as their workload grows. Your drafter stays dedicated to your company rather than shared, and we handle recruiting, training, quality checks, and coverage, so capacity grows or shrinks without you adding headcount.
How fast can we get started?
Most clients finish the free assessment and setup in about an hour, and their drafter typically starts within days. On that call we review your software, standards, and current work, then assign the drafter we'd build your team around. Timelines for each drawing set depend on its size and the documents, so we agree on them one drawing set at a time rather than promising a fixed turnaround.