The CAD market has seen continuous growth over the last few years, is set to be worth over $11billion by 2023. CAD Drafting Services have been around since the late 1950s and are widely accepted and used in a range of industries, from manufacturing to architecture. 

Mantra Services are a multi-disciplinary consultancy covering a wide range of services and sectors. Our team are skilled in CAD drafting services and have extensive experience with CAD software. We are ISO 9001 accredited and our robust quality systems have seen us deliver successful projects in construction, manufacturing and product design.

Computer Aided Design is the use of software applications for the productions of technical drawings, 3D models, BIM models and concept sketches.

There are a number of CAD software suites available on the market. At Mantra Services we utilise the AutoDesk suite of CAD applications including AutoCAD, Revit and Recap. This collection allows us, alongside our non Autodesk products to offer full turnkey CAD drafting services. 

There are two types of CAD drafting services to consider: 2D and 3D. As the name suggests, 2D drafting produces two-dimensional drawings, and some examples of 2D CAD drawings are floor plans and landscaping layouts. These are faster to create and are often used for smaller, or early stage projects. 2D drawings are a great starting point for 3D drawings, as they give an idea of dimension and scale. 3D drafting allows for the creation of real-life objects, such as buildings, and is more accurate in terms of scale and how something will look in reality. It can also help identify potential design issues before a project is given the go ahead.

Mantra offers a range of 2D and 3D CAD services, and our team are experienced in creating high-quality deliverables for a variety of businesses and industries. As a multi-disciplinary consultancy, we use CAD across our business. We act as an outsourcing partner to support projects, and we also use CAD to create drawings for our internal surveys projects.

Our outsourced CAD only services not only save your team time, but they also ensure that drawings are accurate and produced to the standard you require. We work alongside your team to produce exactly what they need to make the project a success.

We have applied the expertise developed in the use of CAD software and applied it to the hardware market. Over a period of many years, we have established a fundamental understanding of the requirements of 2D and 3D CAD hardware. Our bespoke custom designed Workstations are now available at BATCSystems.co.uk.

• As built drawings – it’s common for changes to be made on site throughout the construction process, project managers and employers have a duty to reflect these changes in the final drawings. The team at Mantra can produce accurate drawings during or after construction, to show what has actually been built. We can also carry out a survey as part of the as built service.

• Architectural drafting – our team can create detailed drawings that are aligned with industry conventions, and can be used to produce proposals, communicate ideas and guide the construction of a building.

• Proposal drawings – proposals contain the core information and visuals needed to further explain or gain approval for a project. Using CAD, we can help you produce an outstanding proposal.

• Scheme layout – the production of plans that reflect the overall layout of a project or scheme are vital to its success. Our team can create accurate scheme layouts for your commercial, healthcare of education project. 

• Reverse engineering – the process of deconstructing a product gives you the opportunity to analyse and explore how it was originally designed and built. At Mantra, we can create comprehensive CAD drawings of a product’s parts, so that it can be replicated or improved.

• STIL files for 3D printing – using CAD, we can create drawings that are ready for you to 3D print in STL (Standard Triangle Language), the most commonly used file type for 3D printing.  

• Product prototyping – prototyping is the first step of bringing your product to life, and our team can take your product idea and create 2D or 3D drawings of it, creating your prototype. These drawings can also be used to create a 3D printing file. 

To find out how we can contribute to the success of your project, or for a quote, contact us.

Thanks to technology, a lot of aspects of our lives have been sped up, and drafting is no exception. Using CAD speeds up the drawing process, as the simple act of drawing a line on paper can be done in a couple of clicks of your mouse.

Also, you can create and save templates which will save you time in the future. If you know you are going to be doing a lot of drawings for a particular industry, or are doing a similar drawing to one you have already done, you don’t have to start from scratch. 

In manual drafting, no matter how hard you try to get your measurements right, there’s always a chance that they may be slightly wrong and throw the whole project off. With CAD, there is no chance of that happening. It’s guaranteed that the measurement will be exact, and that will improve the accuracy of the overall project. 

CAD software makes it easy to make changes, whether they be minor mistakes made or major revisions in the project. In a few simple clicks, you can undo, redo or delete anything, meaning that you don’t have to restart the entire drawing. 

Drawings can be accessed from anywhere, by anyone who needs them. Collaboration is easy as design history can be viewed, so team members can see exactly what has been changed. 

CAD drawings speak the same language. They are standardised and organised, meaning that there are no issues reading and interpreting drawings across businesses and industries. 

Using CAD has quickly become the industry standard, for all of the reasons listed above and more. Manual drawing is becoming a thing of the past, due to the benefits CAD has to offer.

If you are looking for any of the services listed above, the answer is probably yes! That said, CAD has so many uses across such a variety of industries and projects that it is impossible to list them all. If you think that your project would benefit from CAD Drafting Services, please get in touch, we would be happy to talk you through what we can do.