Professional CAD Conversion Services for Architects & Engineers Across USA & UK

Interior fit-out projects move fast and our clients rarely give us enough lead time. We were spending too much internal resource redrawing scanned PDFs from landlords and base building consultants before we could even start our own design work. Since bringing in Shalin Designs for scan to CAD and PDF to DWG conversion, we’ve cut that redrawing time out almost completely. The files come back properly layered, dimensionally accurate, and formatted to suit AutoCAD. What also stood out was how straightforward the process is. You send the files, agree on the format, and the converted drawings arrive within the timeframe they quoted. No chasing, no excuses. We now route every incoming PDF through them as a matter of course.

We’ve been outsourcing our PDF to Revit conversion work to Shalin Designs for the better part of a year now and the quality has been consistent throughout. MEP coordination is unforgiving. A wall that’s off by a few inches or a duct route that doesn’t reflect what’s actually on site causes real problems downstream. What I appreciate about Shalin Designs is that they treat each conversion as a technical exercise, not just a tracing job. The Revit models they deliver have proper families, clean geometry, and layer organisation that integrates directly with our structural and architectural models. Pricing is fair and honest, and there are no surprises once a project is underway.

Heritage work comes with its own set of headaches, especially when you’re dealing with hand-drawn Victorian-era plans that are barely legible and on paper that hasn’t held up well. Shalin Designs handled a particularly difficult batch for us involving listed building documentation that had to be submitted to the planning authority. They were careful with the source material, accurate in the conversion, and delivered files that met BIM Level 2 requirements without any back and forth. They even flagged a few dimensional inconsistencies in the original drawings before they converted them, which saved us from submitting plans with errors we hadn’t caught ourselves. That level of attention is exactly what this kind of work demands.

We work exclusively on high-end residential builds across Sydney and the Blue Mountains, and our clients expect presentation-level drawings at every stage. We started sending our 2D plans and elevations to Shalin Designs for 2D to 3D conversion, and the difference in how our clients respond during design reviews has been genuinely striking. The 3D models come back accurate, well-structured, and ready to present without us needing to clean anything up. Turnaround has never slipped beyond 48 hours, even on complex multi-storey schemes. They’ve quietly become one of the more important parts of our production workflow.

Our firm handles a constant stream of legacy infrastructure projects, many with original drawings going back 30 to 40 years. Getting those paper blueprints into workable DWG files used to eat up a drafter’s entire week. Shalin Designs changed that completely. They converted over 200 sheets from one of our heritage bridge schemes in under three days, with layer structures that actually matched our internal standards without us having to ask twice. The MicroStation outputs were clean, coordinated, and compliant from day one. That kind of turnaround on volume work is rare, and it’s made a measurable difference to how we manage project timelines.