JOSH ROGERSCAD & SURVEY DATA

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01 · Independent CAD drafting for survey firms

Survey drawings, to your standards.

Send me your laser scan, photogrammetry, drone or topo data. I draw it in your layers and title block, ready for your surveyor to review.

Josh Rogers · nearly ten years in UK survey · working for firms worldwide

Start a brief ↗How it works
ABCD1231.101.001.501.004.001.001.501.001.104.853.504.8513.205.105.1010.20DRAWING ROOMFFL 41.02CH 43.60DINING ROOMFFL 41.02CH 43.60SITTING ROOMFFL 41.02CH 43.60STUDYFFL 41.02CH 43.60ENTRANCE HALLFFL 41.02CH 43.60WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87WIN 43.20CILL 41.87UPGL 40.27STREET FRONTGROUND FLOOR PLANSCALE 1:100 @ A3FFL FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL · CH CEILING HEIGHT · LEVELS IN m AODN0123m

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What you can expectFull answers below ↓
Approach

Survey experience.
Clearly drawn.

I understand the survey behind the linework. I turn your supplied data into clear CAD drawings, with uncertainties flagged for your team to review.

Example drawing: south elevation of a brick hall with clock tower Illustration, not a client project. South elevation drawn in metres: clock tower with stone quoins, five-bay two-storey brick hall with hipped slate roof, dormers, chimneys and pedimented entrance, and a single-storey wing with its own pitched roof and chimney. Levels are metres above an assumed datum. MERIDIAN READING ROOMSREADING ROOMS42.80 FFL47.40 FIRST FLOOR52.15 EAVES56.47 RIDGE65.35 TOWER TOP42.35 GL0.00 GL0.45 FFL5.05 FF9.80 EAVES14.12 RIDGE2.38 HD4.08 HD8.41 HDDPCPAINTED STONE BANDSLATE SLIPPED01 TERRACOTTA POTS02 WELSH SLATE05 STOCK BRICK03 ASHLAR QUOINS04 CAST-IRON RWP0246 mSOUTH ELEVATIONMERIDIAN READING ROOMS / SCALE 1:100 @ A1
Background

nearly ten years in UK survey

I’ve been on the other side of the drawing.

In the field

  • Measured building, topographic and utility surveys.
  • GNSS, total stations and laser scanners.

In the air

  • Drone pilot for 9+ years.
  • Manual and automated flights.
  • Roofs, elevations, heritage and hard-to-reach areas.
  • Georeferenced photogrammetry supporting terrestrial scanning.

At the desk

  • Registered and georeferenced projects of 1,000+ scan setups.
  • Drafting remotely for the last few years.
  • Now full-time, for survey and engineering firms.
Working together

Checking, style, contact and cost.

Will my team end up checking all of it?
Your team still reviews the drawings. I follow your template and flag missing, occluded or ambiguous data so you can focus on the decisions that need your input.
Will it look like our drawings?
Send your template, layers and title block. Better still, send a finished drawing and I’ll match its style.
Does the drafter understand survey data?
My background covers measured building, topographic and utility surveys. I recognise occlusion, noise and reflective surfaces, and flag anything the supplied data cannot resolve.
Who will I talk to?
Me, from brief to handover, by email or a call. Independent contractor, no account manager in between.
Whose name goes on the drawing?
Yours. I draft for your surveyor, who reviews and signs it off, and seals it where your jurisdiction requires.
What does it cost, and what about revisions?
Quoted per job. The quote sets out scope, standards, how revisions are handled and the delivery date, before work starts.
How will you handle our data?
Kept confidential and used only for your brief, with transfer and retention agreed before work starts.
What I draw

Drawing support, where you need it.

  • From a single revision to a complete drawing package.
  • Deliverables matched to the data and scope you supply.
  • Not a firm? Send your scan, drone or photogrammetry data and tell me what you need from it.
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Measured building drawings

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SCAN OR SURVEY DATA → PLANS, ELEVATIONS, SECTIONS
When
Your team needs drawing time, or a package needs revising.
You send
Point cloud, orthos, existing CAD or marked-up PDFs.
You get
Plans, elevations and sections on your layers and title blocks.
DWG / DXF / PDF
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Topographic and utility drawings

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SURVEY DATA → ISSUE-READY DRAWING
When
The survey is captured and the drawing needs finishing to issue.
You send
Survey data, control and your conventions.
You get
Topo or utility drawings with your layers, symbols and annotation.
TOPOGRAPHIC / UTILITIES / ANNOTATION
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Point cloud to CAD

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REGISTERED SCANS → LINEWORK
When
You hold scans, whether your team captured them or you commissioned them.
You send
E57 or LAS, slices and extracts, control.
You get
Plans, elevations and sections drawn from the cloud, to your standard.
E57 / LAS / PLANS / SECTIONS
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Drone and photogrammetry data

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IMAGERY AND CLOUDS → AGREED OUTPUTS
When
You have drone or photogrammetry data and need the next step.
You send
Imagery or point clouds, control, required outputs.
You get
Processing or CAD support, agreed in the quote.
ORTHO / TERRAIN / GEOREFERENCED
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Volume calculations

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SURVEYED SURFACES → QUANTITIES
When
You need cut and fill, or stockpile volumes.
You send
Survey data and the surfaces or levels you specify.
You get
Volumes in an agreed format, with method and inputs stated.
SURFACES / CUT & FILL
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Spatial visualisation

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SPATIAL DATA → PRESENTATION
When
People who don’t read survey drawings need to see the site.
You send
Your spatial data.
You get
Drawing-led building and site studies for review or presentation.
CONTEXT / PRESENTATION
Example · SitesXY

Topo and utility drawings.

  • Kerbs, boundaries, trees, drainage and spot heights.
  • Drawn consistently on your layers.
  • Levels and volumes to the same standard.
Example topographic survey drawing 46.00 47.00 48.00 49.00 49.00 50.00 50.00 51.00 CL 49.96 IL 47.86 CL 48.51 IL 46.93 CL 47.57 IL 45.99 CL 46.80 IL 45.18 CL 48.23 IL 47.08 CL 47.78 IL 46.73 SEPTIC TANK CL 47.32 IL 46.27 CL 48.90 IL 48.10 CL 48.50 IL 47.70 SOAKAWAY IL 47.29 GY FH WM SV GM GV TP TP TP TP TP TP TP TP LC SP KT 47.07 KB 46.94 KT 47.60 KB 47.47 KT 48.09 KB 47.96 KT 48.75 KB 48.62 KT 49.81 KB 49.68 KT 51.13 KB 51.00 KT 51.36 KB 51.23 KT 47.13 KB 47.00 KT 47.74 KB 47.61 KT 50.45 KB 50.32 KT 51.32 KB 51.19 DK 48.35 DK 48.51 TH 48.32 TH 48.68 TH 49.84 TH 51.05 TH 51.38 48.12 48.26 48.43 48.82 49.28 50.72 51.19 47.33 48.59 49.03 49.42 48.05 48.75 49.14 WB 47.11 WB 49.05 WT 50.56 WT 48.59 GP 48.31 GP 48.50 TH 48.69 45.95 49.33 47.13 49.64 51.08 WL 49.35 TOB 50.02 IL 49.82 IL 49.59 TOB 50.13 46.52 49.02 50.02 49.67 46.66 49.07 46.88 48.98 48.47 49.37 47.39 46.88 48.59 50.02 49.46 50.52 49.11 49.59 45.96 47.93 50.16 49.19 47.69 48.82 49.48 50.42 48.00 51.03 47.28 50.54 48.00 47.15 47.92 49.38 47.34 50.21 48.91 48.38 48.16 49.48 48.21 47.68 49.68 49.55 46.49 48.62 48.34 48.48 47.48 48.75 50.89 48.82 48.73 48.98 47.67 47.01 48.36 49.99 47.02 46.76 47.82 46.05 46.47 49.34 50.59 49.24 47.11 49.46 48.82 49.33 50.85 1000 E 1020 E 1040 E 1060 E 1080 E 1100 E 1120 E 1140 E 1160 E 1180 E 2000 N 2020 N 2040 N 2060 N 2080 N MILL LANE EAV 53.28 EAV 53.59 EAV 55.15 EAV 55.77 EAV 56.38 EAV 51.46 EAV 52.25 EAV 54.04 Apple 0.31/5.5 Apple 0.31/4.5 Apple 0.22/5.5 Apple 0.25/4 Apple 0.25/4 Apple 0.25/4.5 Apple 0.31/5 Apple 0.22/5 Apple 0.22/4 Oak 0.55/10.2 Ash 0.30/8 Oak 0.45/9.8 Sycamore 0.38/9 Ash 0.34/8.5 Oak 0.50/9.5 Hawthorn 0.22/5.5 Ash 0.40/9.2 Hawthorn 0.18/4.8 Yew 0.30/4.2 Yew 0.26/3.8 Apple 0.27/5 Hawthorn 0.20/5.2 Gravel Orchard Paddock Grass N 0 5 10 15 20 m LOCAL GRID · LEVELS m (ASSUMED DATUM) · 1:500
SITE PLANTopographic clean-ups ↗
ExampleCUT / STRUCTURE / DETAIL

Sections that match your plans.

  • Levels and grid agree across plans, sections and elevations.
  • One consistent package, drawn on your layers.
01 WORKSHOPFFL 100.000 / CH 103.3202 PRINT ROOMFFL 100.000 / CH 103.3203 MATERIAL STOREFFL 100.000 / CH 103.3204 ARCHIVEFFL 103.600 / CH 106.9205 SHARED STUDIOFFL 103.600 / CH 106.9206 MEETINGFFL 103.600 / CH 106.9207 STUDIOFFL 107.200 / CH 110.8008 DESIGN STUDIOFFL 107.200 / CH 110.8009 REVIEWFFL 107.200 / CH 110.8012345600060006000600024000360036003600346414264+100.000 GROUND+103.600 FIRST+107.200 SECOND+110.800 EAVES+114.264 RIDGE+100.900 CILL+103.000 HEAD+104.500 CILL+106.600 HEAD+108.100 CILL+110.200 HEAD450 BRICKWORKDPC +100.000EXT. GL +99.850FORMATION +98.950ALL DIMENSIONS IN MM. LEVELS IN M, ASSUMED DATUM +100.000.SECTION A-ALONGITUDINAL / SCALE 1:100 @ A1
SECTION A—A
Brief & delivery

Brief agreed. Delivery handled.

  1. 01

    Brief.

    Send the data, your template and the deadline. A finished drawing to match is the quickest brief.

  2. 02

    Agree.

    Scope, standards, file formats, fee and delivery date, in writing, before work starts.

  3. 03

    Draw.

    I handle routine drafting and bring you decisions about scope, interpretation or missing data.

  4. 04

    Hand over.

    The agreed files, a short handover note and any unresolved data queries. Optional review markups are agreed in the brief.

Three ways to share data

  • Send exportsPoint cloud extracts, E57, LAS, orthos, control, your template.
  • Your portalI log into your online viewer.
  • Your machineI work in a remote session, so the data stays where it lives.
Privacy

Your data, your brief only.

Deliverables and usage rights agreed in your quote.

  • Used only for your agreed brief, and kept confidential.
  • Secure transfer, or work within your own portal.
  • Returned or deleted when the work ends, or when you ask, as agreed.
Independent, by design

A direct line to the person doing the work.

Josh Rogers
Josh Rogers
JOSH ROGERS / CAD & SURVEY DATA
  • Nearly ten years in UK survey. Now drafting full-time.
  • You deal with me, from brief to handover.
  • Independent contractor: no agency, no account manager.
  • By email: .
  • I draft. Your surveyor signs it off, and seals it where your jurisdiction requires.

Working with firms worldwide

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Details

Formats, capacity and terms.

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Can we talk before I send anything?

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Yes. We can talk through a project or ongoing support on Microsoft Teams. Email me to arrange a time; a sample drawing or brief outline helps.

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What is in and out of scope?

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Drawings produced from the data you supply. Site work, 3D or BIM modelling, and signing or certifying stay with your team.

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What formats do you deliver?

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DWG, DXF and PDF, as agreed. Tell me your CAD version and I’ll match it.

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Can you cover busy periods and big projects?

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Yes, from a single revision to a full package, where my diary allows. Tell me volume and dates early and I’ll confirm capacity before you commit. If I can’t cover it, I’ll say so at the start.

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Will you sign an NDA?

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Yes. Send yours for review, or ask for mine.

Get in touch

Tell me what’s on
your desk.

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