Built for draughting work, not consumer hype
Every DraughtAI capability comes from work that Brian McCallum Draughting actually carries out for UK practices, contractors and engineers — and the standards that work has to meet.
From hand sketch to clean DWG, layered correctly
Upload a hand sketch, marked-up survey or site photograph. DraughtAI vectorises walls, openings, fixtures and external furniture, then writes them to your office's standard layer set with correct line weights and colours.
- Source: PNG, JPG, PDF, SVG, hand-drawn or scanned
- Output: DWG (AutoCAD 2018), DXF, vector PDF
- Layers mapped to your office template (BS, AIA or custom)
- Wall thickness inferred and editable per element
- Returns an editable change log with every generation
Describe the job. DraughtAI lays out the sheets.
Type or paste a project brief in plain English. DraughtAI returns a complete A1/A3 sheet set — title block, scale bar, north arrow, revision schedule, drawing register — pre-populated and ready for your draughtsperson to fill in detail.
- Title block to BS 8888 §6 conventions
- Auto numbering: project, sheet, revision, suitability code
- Signed-off-by / checked-by fields wired to your team roster
- Customisable office variant — colours, logo, font, margins
Dimension chains and material hatching, applied as editable blocks
DraughtAI suggests dimension chains, centre lines, hidden detail and material hatching consistent with ISO 128. Every annotation is placed as an editable AutoCAD block on the correct layer — never as raster.
- Dimension chain inference, including running and chained dimensions
- Material hatching: brick, blockwork, concrete, insulation, timber
- Section line and view callouts, BS 8888 conventions
- Re-runnable: change a wall thickness, dimensions update
Bring legacy drawings into your office template — in bulk
Inherited a hundred drawings from another consultant? DraughtAI re-bases title block, layer naming, line weights, font and dimension style across the entire pack in one batch — without re-drafting.
- Bulk DWG / DXF / PDF input (zip up to 2 GB)
- Map source layers to your office layer convention
- Title block re-applied, project number bulk-replaced
- Per-sheet diff PDF for the reviewer
Catch missing dimensions and standards violations before issue
Drawings nearing issue go through an automated check that flags missing dimensions, sections without callouts, inconsistent line weights, font violations and CDM-relevant gaps.
- BS 8888 / ISO 128 / ISO 19650 rule packs
- Per-sheet checklist with severity levels
- One-click "fix it" suggestions on each finding
- Audit log signed by the reviewer (Studio plan and above)
Works with the CAD software you already use
Outputs are tested in real CAD environments, not just rendered to PDF.
Your drawings are yours
DraughtAI runs on UK-region cloud infrastructure. Files are encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). User uploads are retained for 30 days by default and can be deleted immediately from the customer portal at any time.
We do not use customer files to train, fine-tune, evaluate or improve any AI model. Where DraughtAI calls a third-party large language model, it does so under a contract that prohibits the provider from using customer content for training. The list of subprocessors is published in our privacy policy.
See DraughtAI on your own drawings
Bring a sketch, a photo or a legacy drawing to a 20-minute screen-share with Brian.