About the studio · Hermosa Beach, CA
Daedalus Draft is a focused CAD drafting studio — no renderings-and-marketing side hustle, no offshore handoff. We do one thing: turn redlines, field measurements, and engineer's calcs into coordinated, construction-ready drawing sets that pass plan check and hold up on the jobsite.
Drafting the back of the sheet for South Bay general contractors, structural engineers, and residential architects — the same two hands on every DWG, start to delivery.
Why the studio exists
“Daedalus Draft started after one too many permit sets came back from the city with 11 correction comments — most of them layer errors and missing callouts, not design problems.”
The work was good. The documentation wasn't. So the studio was built around the opposite priority: the drawing is the product, and it has to read right the first time — to a plan checker at 8am, to a framer in the field, to the next CAD tech who inherits the file.
What every sheet is graded against
We'd rather over-document than send a set that generates a phone call. These are the standards we hold even when the deadline is tight.
If a framer or inspector has to call to understand a sheet, the sheet failed. Every dimension chains, every detail has a callout, every reference actually points somewhere. We draw for the person on the ladder, not the person admiring the PDF.
Native geometry, not traced images. Layered to the U.S. National CAD Standard, line weights plotted to spec, your title block matched. When you open the DWG a year later to reissue, it edits cleanly — no exploded blocks, no mystery layers.
Structural details reconcile to the engineer's calcs, sheet references match the index, revisions are tracked in the title block. Change a dimension once and it carries through — no two sheets quietly disagreeing on the same wall.
What we draw in
We work in the formats your firm already uses, so the set drops into your workflow without a conversion headache.
Who ends up on the drawing board
General contractors
You've got a marked-up PDF, a jurisdiction waiting, and no time to redraw it. We turn the markup into a clean permit set — code and sheet-index setup included — and handle the plan-check corrections when they come back.
Structural engineers
You've run the calcs; you need connection details, sections, and schedules that match them exactly. We draft to your numbers, flag anything that doesn't reconcile, and export the IFC so the set coordinates cleanly.
Residential architects
Design's locked; you'd rather not spend the next two weeks in model space. We take the SD-level set to CD production — dimensioned, layered, and matched to your firm's standards so it reads as yours.
Owners & remodelers
Older structure, missing paperwork, a remodel on the way. We field-measure the existing conditions and produce a dimensioned as-built set your permit application and your contractor can both build off of.
“I don't want you to thank me for a pretty drawing. I want the set to disappear — for the build to just happen, because every sheet answered its own question before anyone had to ask it. That's the whole job.”
— Daedalus Draft · 2601 Hermosa Ave, Hermosa Beach
Put the studio on your next set
A line about what you're building and what you already have is enough to start. We reply with next steps, usually within one business day.