Real projects, real results

Challenge: Chappell Geomatics provides land surveying and mapping services to commercial and residential customers across Northern California. While producing deliverables, they identified many repeatable office tasks as strong candidates for automation.

What we did: We built custom programming that automates those repeatable steps, speeding up deliverable production and cutting manual effort.

Challenge: Greenwave Construction, a small design-build firm specializing in residential buildings, normally creates designs and construction drawings in AutoCAD — but one project required modeling the home and producing construction drawings in Revit.

What we did: We modeled the home in Revit and produced the construction drawings, delivering a complete BIM set without disrupting their established AutoCAD workflow.

Challenge: Pure Power designs utility-scale solar projects and has grown quickly in project size and staff. To optimize ground-mount solar design, they needed a partner who understands the design parameters and could build custom tools with Autodesk APIs.

What we did: We created custom modeling and labeling tools using the Autodesk API, streamlining their ground-mount solar design process at scale.

Challenge: Henry + Associates Architects specializes in modernizing local schools — a niche that regularly brings in more work than their in-house modeling and drafting staff can handle.

What we did: We provided AutoCAD Architecture modeling and drafting capacity to complement their design team, helping them win and complete more school modernization projects.

Challenge: BKF has more than 400 staff using Autodesk software with Civil 3D at the core. Skills and practices varied widely across teams — Civil 3D best practices, peripheral tools (InfraWorks, Vehicle Tracking, Raster Design), and customizations — creating duplicated effort and inconsistent results.

What we did: We standardized their design tools and workflows — Civil 3D best practices, peripheral software, custom programming, and templates — to improve information sharing and produce consistent results more efficiently.

Challenge: Parametrix wanted to deliver data-rich BIM models for their water, wastewater, and process projects — communicating design intent clearly with accessible 3D models at every stage. That meant implementing Autodesk Revit, with training and support.

What we did: We implemented Revit for their BIM deliverables, built a custom tool to fit their workflow, and provided the training and support to make it stick.

Challenge: The City of Palo Alto department of utilities (CPAU) implemented Autodesk Topobase as part of their Geospatial Design and Management Project — which meant moving their existing utilities data into the new system.

What we did: We used FME to convert and load CPAU’s data from AutoCAD into Oracle, feeding their Topobase implementation and utilities mapping — an approach we presented at Safe Software’s FME World Tour.