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Drawing Review details

Use this page when you are ready to wire up files, understand how a review run behaves, and interpret or export results. New here? Start with Drawing Reviews overview.

Prepare your files​

1

Prepare Your Drawing Set and Standards

Ensure your files are available in Nomic:

Connect an Integration

Use ACC, Bentley, SharePoint, or Egnyte to sync your drawing sets and standards

or

Upload Files Directly

Upload the drawing set PDF and your internal standards document

2

Open the Drawing Review Workflow

Navigate to the Workflows tab and select one of the Drawing Review workflows:

  • Drawing Standards Creation — Turn markups, RFIs, and existing standards into a structured Drawing Review Standards artifact you can feed into Drawing Standards Review.

  • Drawing Standards Review — Bring your own standards document. Upload or select your firm's standards as a PDF or a markdown artifact (for example, output from Drawing Standards Creation) alongside the drawing set.

  • Residential Drawing Standards Check — Starter template with a residential QA/QC standards artifact pre-attached; clone it and customize in the workflow builder for a faster first review.

3

Provide the Drawing Set (and Standards)

When you start the workflow, you'll be prompted to select files:

  • Drawing Set — The PDF drawing set to be checked. The review covers the set as a whole: sub-agents are dispatched by issue class to hunt for violations across sheets, not to finish isolated per-sheet passes.

  • Internal Standards — (Drawing Standards Review) Your firm's standards as a PDF or markdown artifact. (Residential Drawing Standards Check ships with a residential standards artifact; customized clones may swap in your own.)

How a standards review run works​

When you run Drawing Standards Review or a customized Residential Drawing Standards Check, the workflow reads your standards, then runs the fast read-only Explore sub-agent twice. The first pass surveys the drawing set (files, sheet index, disciplines, structure) so the orchestrator does not have to read every sheet cold. The second pass combines that survey with the standards and proposes a starting set of issue classes (for example door schedule coordination, stair geometry, detail callout integrity). The orchestrator finalizes the list and dispatches one focused sub-agent per class; each hunts across the full set for violations in its class, cross-referencing sheets where the standard requires it, and uses Drawing Judge to verify findings before they appear in the table.

You can send follow-up prompts during or after the run (“also check egress widths,” “dig deeper on the schedules”) and the orchestrator will spawn additional issue-class sub-agents without redoing work already captured in the results table.

4

Review the Output Table

As sub-agents find and verify issues across the set, violations are added to the Drawing Review table artifact in real time. Each row represents a verified violation and includes:

  • Drawing citation — A link to the exact location on the sheet where the issue was found

  • Title — A short description of the violation

  • Summary — An explanation of how the drawing violates the standard

  • Standard citation — A reference to the specific section of the standards document that applies

  • Status — The current state of the finding

  • Severity — The severity level of the violation

  • Discipline — The design discipline the violation falls under (e.g. Architectural, Structural, MEP)

5

Export the Results

Drawing Review results can be exported in two complementary formats so you can pull them into your existing QA/QC workflow:

  • Annotated PDF (Bluebeam-compatible markups) — Click the PDF icon in the artifact panel header to download the drawing set with each verified violation marked directly on the sheet as a callout annotation. The markups use standard PDF FreeText callout annotations, so they open natively in Bluebeam Revu, PDF-XChange, Adobe Acrobat, and any other PDF viewer that supports annotations — no extra import step required. Reviewers can edit, reply to, or sign off on each markup just like any other Bluebeam markup.

  • Excel or JSON table — Click the download icon in the artifact panel header to export the violations table as an Excel (.xlsx) workbook or a JSON file. Excel is convenient for tracking sign-off and assignments in your existing QA/QC spreadsheets; JSON is useful for piping the findings into other tools.

Key Features​

  • One sub-agent per issue class — Standards are clustered into thematic categories (door schedules, stair geometry, callout integrity, etc.) and each class gets a dedicated sub-agent that hunts across the whole drawing set for that class, including cross-references between sheets
  • Fast Explore sub-agent — A read-only exploration sub-agent (running on a faster, cheaper model) runs twice up front: once to survey the drawing set and once to recommend candidate issue classes against the standards. It also handles any cross-cutting reconnaissance during follow-ups, so the orchestrator never gets buried in unfocused sheet-by-sheet reads or search-hit dumps
  • Drawing Judge — A specialized analysis tool that combines Nomic Parse, OCR, and foundation models to verify potential violations with yes/no precision before adding them to the results table
  • Cited violations — Every finding links directly to the drawing location and the standard section that was violated
  • Real-time results — Violations appear in the output table as they are found, so you can start reviewing before the full run completes
  • Bring your own standards — Use your firm's own internal QA/QC standards document, in any format Nomic supports
  • Bluebeam-compatible markups — Export the findings as an annotated PDF with callout markups that drop straight into Bluebeam Revu, plus Excel/JSON exports of the underlying violations table