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Drawing Review details

Use this page once you have run a review and want to interpret, manage, and export the results. New here? Start with the Drawing Reviews overview.

Prepare your files​

Assistant reviews whatever drawing files are attached to the session or available in the project. Get them into Nomic either way:

  • Sync from an integration — Autodesk Forma, Bentley ProjectWise, SharePoint, or Egnyte. Findings on synced Forma or Fieldwire sheets can be exported back as issues, tasks, or RFIs.
  • Upload directly — Drop the drawing set PDF (and your standards document, if you have one) into the conversation.

Reviews cover the set as a whole. Sub-agents are dispatched by issue class and hunt across sheets rather than finishing isolated per-sheet passes, so cross-sheet conflicts surface.

The findings table​

Verified findings stream into the Drawing Review table artifact as they are confirmed. Each row includes:

ColumnWhat it holds
Drawing citationLink to the exact location on the sheet, with a matching callout markup on the PDF
TitleShort description of the issue
SummaryWhy it is a problem
Standard citationThe check or standards section the finding came from
Code citationThe cited code section, on findings from a code compliance pass
StatusWhere the finding sits in the review lifecycle (see below)
SeverityHow serious the issue is
DisciplineArchitectural, Structural, MEP, and so on

Findings are verified before they are written. Assistant checks each candidate visually against the sheet and drops shaky ones rather than filling the table.

Manage findings and export​

Reviewers work through the findings table in the drawing review UI. Nomic is not where issues get resolved — that happens in Autodesk Forma or Fieldwire after export.

Status lifecycle​

StatusMeaning
NewAI-generated; not yet validated by a person.
AcceptedValidated; ready to export to a delivery platform.
ExportedPushed to Autodesk Forma or Fieldwire.
AddressedSoft-closed in Nomic (fix already reflected in the design).
IgnoredExcluded from active review; markup can be hidden on the PDF.

Typical flow: New → Accept finding → Export (optional) → Mark as addressed or Ignore finding. Reopen moves an addressed or ignored finding back to Accepted.

Export to Autodesk Forma or Fieldwire​

When the cited sheet is from a synced Autodesk Forma or Fieldwire project, use ⋯ on a finding:

  • Autodesk Forma — Create Issue (coordination / QA/QC) or Create RFI (formal clarification)
  • Fieldwire — Create Task (field follow-up) or Create RFI (design clarification)

Export requires Accepted or Exported status. Helper text under each menu item explains when to use it.

For step-by-step reviewer guidance, see Review and export drawing findings.

Download the results​

  • Annotated PDF — The PDF icon in the artifact panel header downloads the drawing set with each verified finding marked on the sheet as a callout. These are standard PDF FreeText callout annotations, so they open natively in Bluebeam Revu, PDF-XChange, and Acrobat, and reviewers can edit, reply to, or sign off on them like any other markup.
  • Excel or JSON — The download icon exports the findings table as an .xlsx workbook for sign-off tracking, or JSON for piping into other tools.

Drawing workflows​

Three Nomic workflows package drawing review for teams that want a fixed, repeatable run. Open Workflows → Nomic to run or clone them.

WorkflowWhat it does
Drawing Standards CreationTurns markups, RFIs, and existing standards into a structured Drawing Review Standards artifact
Drawing Standards ReviewReviews a drawing set against a standards document you supply (a PDF, or the artifact from Standards Creation)
Residential Drawing Standards CheckWorked example with a residential QA/QC standards artifact pre-attached; clone it and retarget it in the builder

A standards workflow reads your standards, surveys the set with the read-only Explore sub-agent, proposes issue classes, and dispatches one sub-agent per class — the same machinery a chat review uses, with the standards and instructions fixed in advance. Follow-up prompts during or after a run spawn additional issue-class sub-agents without redoing captured work.