Layer cleanup
SIFDR cleans up inconsistent source layers into something an engineering team can work from.
FEATURES
What SIFDR does, and where it stops.
Everything on this page is a capability SIFDR has today. What DraftCore is building toward is on a separate page, in future tense, so the two are never confused.
DRAWING CLEANUP
Start from a cleaner foundation.
These three ship today. They are the concrete substance of the word "cleanup".
Duplicate reduction
SIFDR reduces repeated and overlapping geometry — most of what makes a source file slow to work in.
Source quality review
SIFDR surfaces conditions in the source file worth looking at before design begins.
FORMATS, IN AND OUT
The format is the requirement. Not the CAD tool.
SIFDR reads and writes DWG and DXF. It has its own CAD engine, so it fits the workflow you already have rather than replacing it.
DWG and DXF, in and out
Both formats go in, and both come back out — including a DWG exported from Revit.
CAD-exported PDFs, going in
A PDF works as an input only if it was exported from CAD and still carries its layer information. Scanned, photographed, or flattened PDFs will not work, and SIFDR does not return PDFs.
One plan per upload
One floor, one unit type. Multi-unit buildings are handled one unit at a time — so a 40-sheet set is not one upload.
REFLECTED CEILING PLANS
The other half of what SIFDR does.
Cleanup is the half everyone expects. This is the half that is usually missing from the conversation.
RCP grid creation
SIFDR creates the reflected ceiling plan grid.
RCP cleanup
SIFDR cleans up reflected ceiling plans you already have.
Your engineer populates them
SIFDR does not populate the RCP. That stays your engineer’s work — see the boundary below.
THE BOUNDARY
SIFDR creates the reflected ceiling plan grid and cleans up existing RCPs. It does not populate them.
Populating the RCP stays your engineer’s work, and we would rather you knew that before you started than after. SIFDR is a tool that assists your engineer’s work. It is not the final word, and it is not a compliance engine. Your engineer reviews the plans for accuracy, and the stamp is theirs.
SIFDR does this today
- Cleans up the CAD baseplan on architect DWGs, so your engineer can begin work
- Layer cleanup, duplicate reduction, and source quality review
- Creates the reflected ceiling plan grid, and cleans up existing RCPs
Your engineer does this
- Populates the reflected ceiling plan
- Reviews the cleaned drawing before it lands
- Stamps the drawing, and answers for it
REVISIONS
First-pass cleanup is a cost you have already learned to absorb. Revisions are the one that keeps coming back.
The architect moves a wall. On a revision you re-run SIFDR instead of cleaning the same drawing again — for the life of the project.
01The architect issues a revisionThe drawing you already cleaned is no longer the current drawing.
02You re-run SIFDR on the updated drawingNot a second manual cleanup. The same pass, again.
03Your engineer reviews the result before it landsJudgment and final responsibility stay where they belong.
WHERE DRAFTCORE IS HEADING
Read where DraftCore is heading
The Future of Electrical Design.
DraftCore is building toward the wider electrical design workflow — load calculations, circuiting, sizing, panel schedules, and riser diagrams. That is the direction of the company, not a description of what SIFDR does today.
EARLY ACCESS
Start your free month Send us a drawing you’d normally redo by hand. We’ll run it while you watch.
You supply the file and the yardstick: what you would have done by hand. The first month is free.