Structural CAD Drafting & Detailing

Structural Engineering Services With 98% Precision

CAD Drafter delivers code-referenced structural drawings (steel, wood, light-gauge steel, and reinforced concrete) for the engineers, fabricators, and contractors who stamp and build them. We produce the shop drawings, framing plans, foundation plans, and beam & column schedules.

Our drafting team works from your structural calculations, architectural set, and design criteria to produce a coordinated drawing package (modeled to reference IBC 2021, IRC 2021, ASCE 7-22, ACI 318, and AISC 360) ready for permit submittal or fabrication release.

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Everything About Our Structural Engineering Drafting Company

CAD Drafter is a structural CAD/BIM drafting and detailing company, not a stamp-issuing engineering office. Structural engineers of record (EORs), steel fabricators, general contractors, and architects send us plans and calculations. In return, we send them construction-ready shop drawings, framing plans, and foundation plans modeled to the project’s governing code, including IBC 2021, IRC 2021, ASCE 7-22, ACI 318, and AISC 360. Every deliverable is built for your engineer to review, revise, and stamp.

Why Teams Outsourced Structural Engineering Services

A flat-rate quote, a defined QC review cycle, and a drafting team that scales up or down with your project load. We do all of that without the overhead of an in-house detailing department.

Our Structural Drafting Services Include

Structural Steel Detailing & Tekla Shop Drawings
Foundation Plan Drafting
Beam & Column Schedules
Wood & LGS Framing Plans
Reinforced Concrete (RC) Drafting
Load Calculation Support (Wind, Seismic, Snow)

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Our Structural CAD Drafting Services

From a single beam schedule to a full foundation-to-roof drawing set, every deliverable is coordinated to your engineer’s design and your fabricator’s or builder’s format.

Structural Shop Drawings

We provide Tekla steel shop drawings, light-gauge steel (LGS) shop drawings, and beam & column schedules. This is fabrication-ready detailing with connection callouts, piece marks, and erection sequencing for your fabricator.

Foundation Plan Drafting Services

Foundation plans are one of the most common elements of our structural CAD drafting services. These are ideal for helical piles, micropiles, and concrete foundations, including house-raising and re-leveling projects across wood, LGS, and concrete structures.

Structural Load Calculations

Drafting and documentation support for wind, seismic, snow, and gravity load analysis. Also, structural framing plans CAD, truss modification, and roof reinforcement drawings are prepared alongside your engineer’s calculations.

Barndominium Structural Design

Structural drafting for PEMB and hybrid wood/steel barndominium builds, including solar panel structural upgrade drawings for roof-mounted array reinforcement.

Retaining Wall Structural Design

Structural drawings for concrete, CMU, and segmental block retaining walls above code height limits, with rebar detailing and drainage coordination notes.

Load Calculation Support

Drafting support for wind, seismic, snow, and gravity load documentation your EOR prepares. Our team ensures everything is cross-checked against ASCE 7-22 mapped values, exposure category, and seismic design category (SDC).

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Barndominium and hybrid wood/steel structural drafting is one of the fastest-growing requests we receive, alongside solar panel structural upgrade and roof reinforcement drawings for existing buildings.

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Code-Referenced Drafting

Every Structural Engineering Model Verified Against the Governing Code

We build every structural drawing set to reference the codes your jurisdiction and your engineer require, so review cycles focus on design intent, not formatting.

ASCE 7-22

Wind, seismic, snow, and gravity load mapping support

Rebar Detailing

Reinforced concrete (RC) drafting services include reinforcement placement, lap splice lengths, and bar bending schedules for footings, walls, and slabs.

Framing Plans

Floor and roof framing plans noting member spacing, bearing points, and diaphragm nailing for wood, LGS, steel, and composite systems.

GA Drawings

General arrangement drawings coordinating structural grid lines with architectural layouts and elevations.

Beam & Column Schedules

This type of structural steel detailing service includes sized and graded member schedules, keyed to plan and elevation views, noting deflection criteria where specified.

Shop Drawings

Fabrication drawings with weld symbols, bolt patterns, and piece marks formatted for shop production and field erection.

Construction Documents

Coordinated structural sheet sets with general notes and details, ready for your EOR’s stamp and permit set.

Project Types

Structures We Draft & Detail For Developers

Residential, commercial, and industrial; our drafting team has detailed structural systems across the project types below.

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Single-Family Residence

Foundation, floor, and roof framing plans coordinated with beam & column schedules.

Wood Frame · CMU · ICF · Steel · Concrete

ADU & Second-Story Additions

New bearing point layouts, header sizing, and shear wall nailing schedules for additions tying into existing framing.

Wood Frame · LGS · Engineered Lumber

Office Building

Composite steel framing plans, moment connection schedules, and floor diaphragm details for mid-rise structures.

Steel · Concrete · Composite

Retail & Shopping Center

Long-span steel framing plans and tilt-up or CMU wall panel details for single-tenant and strip retail buildings.

Structural Steel · Masonry

Warehouse & PEMB Steel Detailing

Tekla fabrication shop drawings for long-span rigid frames, purlins, girts, and base plate/anchor bolt layouts.

PEMB · Structural Steel