Casework elevations, plans and sections The drawing work itself.

Elevations

Every item drawn face-on, with overall and component dimensions, door and drawer configuration, material and finish callouts, hardware references, and item tags that carry through to the schedules.

Plans

Item locations against gridlines or architectural references, run configurations, depth changes, returns, and the relationship to walls, columns and services.

Sections

Vertical and horizontal cuts through each distinct condition. Countertop to base cabinet, upper cabinet to soffit, toe kick and base, reveal conditions, backsplash junctions, and any point where the profile changes.

Large-scale details

Edge conditions, corner treatments, scribe conditions, integral pulls, panel joints and applied mouldings, drawn at the scale where the joint is decided rather than described.

Where the specification names an AWI grade, the drawing has to support it. Surface exposure categories are shown, substrate callouts are specific rather than "as selected", and the grade appears in the title block or general notes so a reviewer never has to guess what standard the sheet intends to meet.

Elevations, plans and sections are the geometry everything downstream depends on. The submittal package is assembled from them. The fabrication drawings extend them. The take-off counts from them, and the cut list derives from them.

An error here propagates. A wrong dimension on an elevation becomes a wrong quantity, then a wrong part, then a wrong piece on a truck.

• Standard versus custom in the same run. Standard casework can be driven from a library. A custom item is drawn as a one-off. Mixing the two without a stated convention is how a floor ends up guessing which rules apply to which unit.
• Reveal and tolerance strategy. Where a design shows a consistent reveal, the drawing has to state how that reveal survives site tolerance. Repeating the design dimension is not a strategy.
• Grain and material direction. Sequence matching and directional grain do not survive as assumptions. They belong on the elevation, because the person cutting the sheet will not have read the finish schedule.
• Hardware clearance. Specified hardware has real swing, extension and clearance requirements. An elevation that ignores them approves cleanly and then fails at assembly.
• Field conditions. Walls are not plumb and floors are not level. Scribe allowances belong on the drawing, not in the fitter's head.

The objection behind most of these enquiries is not capability. It is that an outside detailer will draw things their own way.

Your layer conventions, dimensioning practice, tagging scheme, hardware preferences and standard details are captured in a Standards Record on the first project and applied on every project after that. Drawings arrive in your template, under your title block, looking like your drawings.

Where no documented convention exists, we propose one at scoping and confirm it before production. We do not impose ours quietly.

Shops carrying more items than detailing hours. Manufacturers running repeatable casework at volume alongside custom feature items. Contractors who need a millwork package documented to a reviewable standard without building an in-house detailing function.

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