Robert Gräbert – CTO — has been leading Graebert’s Research & Development team for the past 20 years. His passion for CAD and forward-thinking ideas inspired Graebert’s innovations in Cloud, Mobile and BIM. Robert graduated from the Imperial College in London with a Master of Engineering in Computer Science, before obtaining a PhD from Stanford University in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Even the best BIM models still hit a bottleneck when it’s time to ship clean drawing sets. Token licensing inflates costs, and exporting DWGs often means hours of post-processing. Graebert’s multi-platform ARES engine—desktop, mobile and browser-native ARES Kudo—now adds Autodrawings: one-click, standards-compliant DWG sheets generated directly from IFC or Revit and refreshed automatically in the cloud. Open file formats, a headless API, and live integrations from Snaptrude and Qonic give architects, owners and software vendors a way to cut drawing production time, enforce company standards and slash “occasional-user” spend—without locking data into yet another proprietary platform.
We are now seeing the delivery of autodrawing technology in CAD applications. The early capabilities will be useful and focussed on less detailed drawings, but this is just the start of a journey and even the ones commercially available are not really using deep AI.
Grabert is first to market, Qonic is showing what it means in the context of models and EvolveLabs (now part of Chaos) has Glyph, which sits inside of Revit. Meanwhile, HOK’s Greg Schleusner has been relentlessly pursuing this capability from design tool developers and is just starting to see his dreams come true. Join us in find out what’s possible and what’s coming next.