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Phase IV · Production tech
Drawing → CAD → Model
Five drawing sets, five different starting points, five working models. Every output on these pages was produced by the same pipeline and measured before it was published.
Pick a projectThe five sets
All current
Lane A · Pipeline A
Bear's Club
34-page architectural permit set — PDF, plotted from CAD
106 walls164 objects
5 outputs
Lane B · Pipeline B
Commodore
5 native CAD drawings — DWG, exported from Revit
751 walls940 objects
5 outputs
Lane C · Pipeline C
Landscape
Landscape CAD — 23 files, hardscape / planting / grading
304 surfaces511 objects
5 outputs
Lane F · Pipeline E
Riverside Drive
A scan of a hand-drawn presentation plan — no CAD underneath
5 masses128 objects
5 outputs
Lane C · Pipeline D
Landscape · revisions
5 dated revisions of the same landscape design
125 surfaces417 objects
5 outputs
Everything producedOutput inventory
| Project | Structured data | CAD file | Model | 3D view | Fidelity exhibit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear's Club | 9 sheets | 132 KB | 244 KB | 164 objects | 122/122 |
| Commodore | 4 sheets | 674 KB | 1.3 MB | 940 objects | 314/314 · stand-in |
| Landscape | 4 sheets | 606 KB | 2.3 MB | 511 objects | 3,158/3,158 · stand-in |
| Riverside Drive | 1 sheets | 135 KB | 522 KB | 128 objects | 92/92 |
| Landscape · revisions | 6 sheets | 208 KB | 736 KB | 417 objects | 619/619 · stand-in |
One honest caveat, stated the same way everywhere. Two exhibits — Bear’s Club and
Riverside Drive — are registered against the original drawing. The other three are drawn against a generated
stand-in of the sheet: they show what the pipeline read, but they are not laid over the architect’s own linework.
Bringing the remaining three onto their real sheets is a known next step, not a discovered surprise.
Worth naming the inversion: Riverside is the hardest source in the set for geometry and the easiest for overlay — because it is an image, the extraction is drawn straight back onto it with no registration step at all.
Worth naming the inversion: Riverside is the hardest source in the set for geometry and the easiest for overlay — because it is an image, the extraction is drawn straight back onto it with no registration step at all.
Five routes inHow it works
See the diagrams →A permit-set PDF, a native CAD set, a landscape drawing, a revision series and a hand-drawn sheet need five different routes. The stages of each are drawn out on the pipelines page.