FREQUENTY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
1. What are the advantages in cad and design outsourcing?
(a) Reduce overhead expenses like electricity, maintenance, stationary, recruitment expenses.
(b) Avoid capital expenditure like investment on computer, printers, plotter, Xerox and scanner.
(c) Improve efficiency–Quality service, prompt delivery, skilled personnel, cost effectiveness, saving on manpower and training cost, reduce operating costs, establish long-term, strategic relationships with world-class service providers to gain a competitive edge, focus on strategic thinking, be reliable and innovative, provide value-added services, increase customer satisfaction, avoid the cost of chasing technology, eliminates long absence of staffs by non stop service from our end.
(c) Offload non-core functions you can concentrate on core business process.
(d) Get access to specialized skills – we have skilled staffs in many cad software.
(e) Spread your risks because your vendor will share your risk.
(f) Benefit from the provider's expertise in solving problems for a variety of clients with similar requirements.
(g) Focus scarce resources on time-critical projects such as application reengineering, and many more.
(h) When you're losing focus on your core business because you're too busy handling day-to-day operations and many more.
2. How can I send the drawing to you?
Hard copy (paper drawing, blue prints, tracing sheets) Drawings or sketches can be sent to us by courier or by post from anywhere to our marketing office address from any where in the world.
3. Any other alternate methods to send the drawing to you?
Alternatively, drawings or sketches that need to be drafted could have to be scanned at your end and converted to image files like. Tiff, jpeg or pdf. These files would then have to be sent to us by e-mail or write these image data into CD. These CD can send to us by courier or by post.
4. How can you delivered the file to us?
We will draft the drawings as per you requirements and schedule and send them back to you via e-mail/ courier or on media such as Floppies / CD’s by in person or Through Courier or any other reliable source request by the client.
5. How can I convert paper drawings to image files?
A large format scanner is used to create digital raster TIFF (Tagged Image Format File) images of the hardcopy drawings. Scanning facility available in most photocopier shop or DTP shop.
6. What is a scanned image/raster image?
The Raster image/scanned image or TIF file is the raw product from the scanner after passing the your paper (Drawing, Photo or Text) into a scanner and is a bit like a photo i.e. you can see it, but it is one image or entity and it is made up from thousands of little dots.
7. In what DPI should the paper original be scanned?
The paper if scanned at 300 DPI, is able to display almost the entire information clearly visible on the sheet.
8. Why Convert Paper Drawings to CAD drawing (soft copy)?
CAD conversion offers significant advantages over other methods such as significant cost saving, increased drawing value, and improved overall drawing management efficiency.
• Modification, editing, copying, multiple copying, mirror, trimming, stretching, extending, scaling and erasing the drawing are very easy in soft copy (CAD copy).
• Increased drawing value.
• Storage and Accessing the file are very easy.
• Transferring the files are very easy through CD, Floppy, DVD, and emailing from your concern to other company any where in the world
• Complication and congested area in drawing can be possible to view by zooming the area in your computer monitor.
• We can set the color for assembly parts, so that we can distinguish the items, using the layer and line type we can easily differentiate the main parts and hidden parts. While plotting components or object are comes in thick line while dimensions are in thin line by lineweight properties. Neatness will be maintained in CAD copy.
• Once Assembly drawings are completed, we can use the parts for detailing easily. Where as in hard copy it is not possible. We have to draw the parts again it takes too much time to complete the drawing.
• For design development we can use the existing drawings for modification. We can save time.
• Quality management systems (QS, TS, ISO 9000) imply that soft copy of drawings is preferable than hard copy of drawing for easily accessible. Hence external auditor demands you to make the soft copy in systems.
• The same soft copy of drawing entity or views can be used some other documents also like standard operating procedure, work instructions, as it copy and paste to many places wherever its required.
• We can convert soft cad copy of drawings into JPG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF instantly. Scanner is not required. We can maintain confidentiality if we send the converted tiff or pdf image to customers or vendors. So other person cannot misuse the confidential drawings.
• 2D & 3D drawings can be used for analyzing, cost estimation, weight and other calculation, material management systems, material control, project management, inventory tracking and numerically controlled machining and manufacturing. 2D views in Cad can directly use for 3D modeling conversion process.
• Revisions done in CAD may be 2-8 times faster than the same revision done by manual methods.
• Since conversion is a one-time cost, the second and third revisions to a drawing produce even greater saving.
• Reducing the overall cost of maintaining a drawing throughout its useful life.
• Reduce the Cost of Revisions & Drawing Life Cycle Cost.
• Cost of revision further reduced by shortening the time of CAD revisions.
• Converting drawings to fully vectorized files increases the ease of editing.
• The user no longer needs to switch back and forth between raster and vector files.
• Establishing CAD as the standard filing procedure will decrease the amount of engineering time spent looking for drawings, and also the number of lost drawings. Filing more drawings electronically may also reduce square footage being used to store paper drawings.
• Converting drawings to CAD allows a firm to project a consistent, progressive, and high quality image to their clients by eliminating the use of outdated manual drafting methods.
• Maintain a Consistent Level of standard Quality throughout for all Your Projects.
• Create a Standard Filing System.
• CAD is recognized as the modern industry standard in technical drafting and can now be used for drawings, which were created before CAD.
• Begin the commitment of quality at the very first stage of any project, even those projects utilizing old and tattered paper drawings. CAD drawings offer a much higher and more consistent level of quality.
9. Can I mail the paper originals?
Yes, you can mail or courier your paper originals/copies to our marketing office.
10. How can I send the scanned image file if an in-house scanner is not available?
You can either utilize the services of a DTP shop who normally have a scanner, or mail the originals by courier/post to our office. We will scan the drawings and return the originals to you.
11. How does this Internet-based service work?
You may send your inputs via Email, Courier or by post along with scope of work and project instructions, mark up drawings, also a reference sample (DWG file). We follow your instructions and send you progress drawings as .dwg files via Email for your review and comments. You may plot the said progress drawing and thereafter necessary redlines or mark-ups with architect/engineer comments. The said mark-up drawings/comments can be either is e-mailed after scanning. We then do the final correction as per the comments and then re-check before e-mailing, the drawings to you for final use. So wherever you are from your place you can communicate us very fast and reliably.
12. Do you spell-check your drawings?
We not only spell-check but also proofread the drawing.
13. How can I assure the quality of our drawings?
Once the initial drafter has completed the drafting a second drafter reviews the CAD file per specified CAD standards and compares it to the paper document, making adjustments as necessary. Each file is plotted and the final Quality persons visually compare it to the original hardcopy document with second drafter review sheets.
14. Do you follow our own Standards or those, which prescribed by the Client?
We set up CAD standards as furnished by each client. However in absence of prescribed CAD standards we use default standards conforming to our standards and guidelines, which is suitable for most customers.
15. What kind of turnaround time is expected for A0 size sheet conversion?
The delivery time could 24 hours as we work in multiple shifts and it could be as low as 16 hours if the project tasks are simple.
16. Can I mail the original documents?
Yes, you can mail your original documents, including blueprints, drawing manuals or sample drawing file saved in CD format directly to our Valasaravakkam, Chennai office address.
(a) Reduce overhead expenses like electricity, maintenance, stationary, recruitment expenses.
(b) Avoid capital expenditure like investment on computer, printers, plotter, Xerox and scanner.
(c) Improve efficiency–Quality service, prompt delivery, skilled personnel, cost effectiveness, saving on manpower and training cost, reduce operating costs, establish long-term, strategic relationships with world-class service providers to gain a competitive edge, focus on strategic thinking, be reliable and innovative, provide value-added services, increase customer satisfaction, avoid the cost of chasing technology, eliminates long absence of staffs by non stop service from our end.
(c) Offload non-core functions you can concentrate on core business process.
(d) Get access to specialized skills – we have skilled staffs in many cad software.
(e) Spread your risks because your vendor will share your risk.
(f) Benefit from the provider's expertise in solving problems for a variety of clients with similar requirements.
(g) Focus scarce resources on time-critical projects such as application reengineering, and many more.
(h) When you're losing focus on your core business because you're too busy handling day-to-day operations and many more.
2. How can I send the drawing to you?
Hard copy (paper drawing, blue prints, tracing sheets) Drawings or sketches can be sent to us by courier or by post from anywhere to our marketing office address from any where in the world.
3. Any other alternate methods to send the drawing to you?
Alternatively, drawings or sketches that need to be drafted could have to be scanned at your end and converted to image files like. Tiff, jpeg or pdf. These files would then have to be sent to us by e-mail or write these image data into CD. These CD can send to us by courier or by post.
4. How can you delivered the file to us?
We will draft the drawings as per you requirements and schedule and send them back to you via e-mail/ courier or on media such as Floppies / CD’s by in person or Through Courier or any other reliable source request by the client.
5. How can I convert paper drawings to image files?
A large format scanner is used to create digital raster TIFF (Tagged Image Format File) images of the hardcopy drawings. Scanning facility available in most photocopier shop or DTP shop.
6. What is a scanned image/raster image?
The Raster image/scanned image or TIF file is the raw product from the scanner after passing the your paper (Drawing, Photo or Text) into a scanner and is a bit like a photo i.e. you can see it, but it is one image or entity and it is made up from thousands of little dots.
7. In what DPI should the paper original be scanned?
The paper if scanned at 300 DPI, is able to display almost the entire information clearly visible on the sheet.
8. Why Convert Paper Drawings to CAD drawing (soft copy)?
CAD conversion offers significant advantages over other methods such as significant cost saving, increased drawing value, and improved overall drawing management efficiency.
• Modification, editing, copying, multiple copying, mirror, trimming, stretching, extending, scaling and erasing the drawing are very easy in soft copy (CAD copy).
• Increased drawing value.
• Storage and Accessing the file are very easy.
• Transferring the files are very easy through CD, Floppy, DVD, and emailing from your concern to other company any where in the world
• Complication and congested area in drawing can be possible to view by zooming the area in your computer monitor.
• We can set the color for assembly parts, so that we can distinguish the items, using the layer and line type we can easily differentiate the main parts and hidden parts. While plotting components or object are comes in thick line while dimensions are in thin line by lineweight properties. Neatness will be maintained in CAD copy.
• Once Assembly drawings are completed, we can use the parts for detailing easily. Where as in hard copy it is not possible. We have to draw the parts again it takes too much time to complete the drawing.
• For design development we can use the existing drawings for modification. We can save time.
• Quality management systems (QS, TS, ISO 9000) imply that soft copy of drawings is preferable than hard copy of drawing for easily accessible. Hence external auditor demands you to make the soft copy in systems.
• The same soft copy of drawing entity or views can be used some other documents also like standard operating procedure, work instructions, as it copy and paste to many places wherever its required.
• We can convert soft cad copy of drawings into JPG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF instantly. Scanner is not required. We can maintain confidentiality if we send the converted tiff or pdf image to customers or vendors. So other person cannot misuse the confidential drawings.
• 2D & 3D drawings can be used for analyzing, cost estimation, weight and other calculation, material management systems, material control, project management, inventory tracking and numerically controlled machining and manufacturing. 2D views in Cad can directly use for 3D modeling conversion process.
• Revisions done in CAD may be 2-8 times faster than the same revision done by manual methods.
• Since conversion is a one-time cost, the second and third revisions to a drawing produce even greater saving.
• Reducing the overall cost of maintaining a drawing throughout its useful life.
• Reduce the Cost of Revisions & Drawing Life Cycle Cost.
• Cost of revision further reduced by shortening the time of CAD revisions.
• Converting drawings to fully vectorized files increases the ease of editing.
• The user no longer needs to switch back and forth between raster and vector files.
• Establishing CAD as the standard filing procedure will decrease the amount of engineering time spent looking for drawings, and also the number of lost drawings. Filing more drawings electronically may also reduce square footage being used to store paper drawings.
• Converting drawings to CAD allows a firm to project a consistent, progressive, and high quality image to their clients by eliminating the use of outdated manual drafting methods.
• Maintain a Consistent Level of standard Quality throughout for all Your Projects.
• Create a Standard Filing System.
• CAD is recognized as the modern industry standard in technical drafting and can now be used for drawings, which were created before CAD.
• Begin the commitment of quality at the very first stage of any project, even those projects utilizing old and tattered paper drawings. CAD drawings offer a much higher and more consistent level of quality.
9. Can I mail the paper originals?
Yes, you can mail or courier your paper originals/copies to our marketing office.
10. How can I send the scanned image file if an in-house scanner is not available?
You can either utilize the services of a DTP shop who normally have a scanner, or mail the originals by courier/post to our office. We will scan the drawings and return the originals to you.
11. How does this Internet-based service work?
You may send your inputs via Email, Courier or by post along with scope of work and project instructions, mark up drawings, also a reference sample (DWG file). We follow your instructions and send you progress drawings as .dwg files via Email for your review and comments. You may plot the said progress drawing and thereafter necessary redlines or mark-ups with architect/engineer comments. The said mark-up drawings/comments can be either is e-mailed after scanning. We then do the final correction as per the comments and then re-check before e-mailing, the drawings to you for final use. So wherever you are from your place you can communicate us very fast and reliably.
12. Do you spell-check your drawings?
We not only spell-check but also proofread the drawing.
13. How can I assure the quality of our drawings?
Once the initial drafter has completed the drafting a second drafter reviews the CAD file per specified CAD standards and compares it to the paper document, making adjustments as necessary. Each file is plotted and the final Quality persons visually compare it to the original hardcopy document with second drafter review sheets.
14. Do you follow our own Standards or those, which prescribed by the Client?
We set up CAD standards as furnished by each client. However in absence of prescribed CAD standards we use default standards conforming to our standards and guidelines, which is suitable for most customers.
15. What kind of turnaround time is expected for A0 size sheet conversion?
The delivery time could 24 hours as we work in multiple shifts and it could be as low as 16 hours if the project tasks are simple.
16. Can I mail the original documents?
Yes, you can mail your original documents, including blueprints, drawing manuals or sample drawing file saved in CD format directly to our Valasaravakkam, Chennai office address.
17. How can you communicate or respond to a Client?
Communicating with us is very easy. You can reach us thru phone or e-mail available. We can reach the customer on the same day if they are in and around Chennai.
18. What other type of inputs you take?
We take Hand drafted designs, drawings, plans, redlines, markups, sketches, scanned documents, details, schematics, diagrams, addendums and as-builts are just a few of the documents produced by you that are readily convertible. Just contact us with an example of your source documents, standards and project requirements and we will convert any and all your source documents into AutoCAD.
19. How do I send my files to you?
Electronic files can be sent via email id : a1cadengineers@gmail.com. Manual or plotted drawings and sketches may be mailed or delivered to our marketing office.
20. Any other type of drafting you consider other than above?
Yes, we consider other types of drafting also.
21. Are you undertaken the services like large format plotting, Xerox (photocopying), blue printing, Ammonia printing, scanning, colour printouts, colour plotting, tracing sheet printouts, OHP slides printouts?
Yes, we undertook at reasonable nominal charge for bulk orders.
22. What are the inputs required to create 3D modeling and assembly modeling?
Any one of the following inputs is enough for us to create the 3D modeling and Assembly modeling work. Hard copy of 2D drawings, Soft copy of 2D drawings, Hand sketch made by you, Scanned image file with clarity,Physical components, etc.,
23. Are you require any guidance from our end for designing of jigs fixture, gauge, dies and press tools?
No. We can independently handle the entire process.
24. What are the inputs required for 2D & 3D animation, product presentation and corporate presentation?
The same inputs what we mentioned in 22nd Question and Answer with product details, specifications and other corporate related details for corporate presentations.
25. Is any price Negotiable?
Prices are negotiable for large volumes of work.
26. What about your payment terms?
Please check “payment Terms’ Section in Quotation price list pages.
27. Why waste time for redrafting in-house?
You don't need to waste any more of your organization’s time redrafting hardcopies into CAD files. Get the edge over your competitors, spend your valuable time on core process work and leave the conversion of hardcopies to CAD files to us.
28. Too expensive to outsource?
Not anymore. Now you can afford to get your hardcopies converted to CAD files. We are a specialized service provider geared to high volume turnover. Our teams of dedicated fully trained personnel ensure that we do the job better and faster than most in-house operations and general drafting operations. So We Can Pass On The Savings To You.
30. Looking for high quality drafting?
Our expert staff converts your Drawings into AutoCAD format. Drawings are not simply electronically scanned but accurately re-drawn with exact scaling factor. The CAD files you receive are dimensionally correct and fully useable for future modifications and design. We also augment existing CAD files.
31. Is really digital storage saves you space and money?
CAD files free up space and reduces the number of bulky filing cabinets you need. Your business can also increase productivity by having drawings in computer files in CAD format ready to reuse for future projects.
32. Is CAD Drawings for every business?
Master Drafting Services can prepare drawings for all Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Construction Drawings includes; Wiring, Lighting, Plumbing, Medical, Air-conditioning, Telecomm, LAN, Data and Security Cabling, Renovations, 3-D and 2-D Product Design. We maintain regular and continuous contact with our clients so as to provide them our services without any time lapse throughout 24 hrs a Day, 7 days a week, with least turn-around time.
33. How can we contact and communicate you?
You can contact us through email, phone and courier or by post from any where in the world.
34. More questions?
Send Email to us about your doubts and enquiry.
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