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Code Compliance for Drawings

Nomic searches 380+ codes and standards across disciplines and jurisdictions. Turn on the Codes Search capability and Assistant answers code questions, and reviews drawings against code, with a citation on every requirement.

Assistant never asserts a clearance, slope, height, count, or code section from memory. Every requirement comes from a retrieved code excerpt with a citation you can open. If Codes Search is off, it tells you to enable it rather than guess.

Code Compliance for Drawings

Open Integrations/Tools on the Assistant input bar and turn on Codes Search, then click the pencil next to it and pick a default jurisdiction — the most specific city or county available. You can name a different jurisdiction in a message for a one-off check.

Enable Codes Search

Ask a code question​

Attach the drawing page, screenshot, or spec excerpt in question and ask. Assistant retrieves the governing sections for your jurisdiction and answers with linked citations, including the exceptions that apply.

Give it a jurisdiction, the occupancy or building type when it matters, and a specific question. "Check this" over a whole set without a focus is the most common reason a check comes back thin.

Code Compliance Results with Citations

Review a drawing set against code​

Ask for a code review of an attached set — accessibility, ADA, egress, life safety, and similar requirement hunts — and Assistant runs it as a drawing review with code as the criteria. It surveys the set, confirms scope with you, retrieves the governing code for each issue class, and dispatches a sub-agent per class.

Findings land in the same Drawing Review table, with a code citation on every row alongside the drawing citation and a callout on the sheet. Issue classes cover:

  • Egress — exit count and separation, travel distance, corridor and door widths, dead ends
  • Stairs and means of egress — stair geometry, handrails, guards, enclosures
  • Accessibility — accessible route, ramps, parking, toilet rooms, areas of refuge
  • Fire and life safety — ratings, shafts, sprinklers and alarms, emergency lighting
  • Occupancy and construction type — use groups, construction type, height and area

If you are already mid-review, ask for code cites and Assistant adds them to the review in progress instead of starting over.

Code Compliance Check

Findings on incomplete design information come back as potential issues. Treat them as review prompts, not determinations — see Run a code compliance check.

Supported Codes and Standards​

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Supported Context​

Autodesk Forma

Autodesk Forma Integration

Use synced drawings from Autodesk Forma projects

Bentley ProjectWise

Bentley Integration

Use synced drawings from Bentley projects

SharePoint

SharePoint Integration

Attach synced SharePoint folders to project context for code compliance

Egnyte

Egnyte Integration

Attach synced Egnyte folders to project context for code compliance

Project Data Upload

Directly upload a drawing to the Assistant

Screenshot or Revit

Paste a screenshot or a capture from Revit