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Who Owns Your Drawings Once Your Brisbane Draftsman is…

December 10, 2012July 30, 2018
by Draftsman Brisbane

There is a bit of controversy in the minds of many people who hire a Sunshine Coast or Brisbane draftsman about who exactly owns the drawing once it is completed. We need to separate two concepts to make this clear. The two portions are ownership of use and who holds the copyright. These rules should hold true for every draftsman Brisbane builders have in their employment or independent draftsmen.
We will start off by discussing the issue of copyright since this is where the confusion begins. A copyright is granted to the person who creates a unique work such as a book, article, painting, or home construction drawings. They copyright is the creator protection to keep their intellectual work from being copied and reused without their consent.
Copyright vs Ownership of Drawings

When you hire a Brisbane draftsman to create your home construction drawings for a new home, renovation, or extension they will almost always put a copyright on the drawing. This protects them from having a builder, material supply house, or other person who gains access to the drawing from freely sharing and publishing the drawing without their express consent. They do not wish for their hard work to become public property.
It might seem this is restrictive to you, the person buying the drawing, but in reality it is a blessing to you, also. You commissioned this project so you would have a unique home which is yours. If the drawings become freely available you might suddenly discover your home being reproduced right in your own neighborhood.
When we discuss ownership of the drawing things change slightly. You have purchased exclusive rights to the drawing you commissioned. It is your drawing to use for the creation of your home and to maintain a copy of. What you cannot do it take the drawings the draftsman created and have another firm reproduce the drawing.
Getting Permission to Use Your Own Drawings?

These issues come to the forefront most commonly when a home owner wishes to have an extension added or do renovations. The new draftsman cannot take the existing drawings and duplicate them for his own use. He must either request permission from the other drafting firm or make an original drawing of the basic structure for his use. In most cases a simple request by the home owner who originally commissioned the drafting project will get the proper permissions to use the drawings for the renovation project.
Drafting Concepts Pty Ltd has some excellent explanations of these issues on their site. They want to make sure their clients understand these issues fully. One interesting point they bring up concerns the sketches and rough drawings created by you or when you work in tandem with them during a consultation. Those drawings are normally considered the property of the home owner and can be taken to other draftsmen for quotes.
Drawings Discovered Online May Not Be Free to Use

Why do we need to discuss these issues and make them clear? It is because frequently people wishing to build a home have found floor plans and drawings from a website online and brings them into a draftsman. They want to drawings tweaked slightly to create their own home construction drawings. As any reputable company providing drafting services will explain they cannot use those drawings, they will need to create drawings based upon the concept. Your drafting solutions will need to be uniquely created for you. If you have found plans online you would like to use bring them to a free quote consultation at Drafting Concepts Pty Ltd and ask Daryl Wood and Kwang Ja Lim what you can do and cannot do with the drawings. They will clearly explain your options and provide you with an estimate of costs to make the drawings you need.

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Innovative New Home Drafting Solutions in Brisbane and Sunshine…

March 1, 2012July 30, 2018
by Draftsman Brisbane

Creativity is a trait not every draftsman Brisbane home buyers talk to possess. Many of the people offering drafting services throughout the Brisbane and Sunshine Coast areas are excellent at putting lines on the computer, but when it comes to making innovative design choices or creatively overcoming problems they get stuck.

Creativity is something you should strongly desire in your choice of Brisbane draftsman. You may not be worried about high creativity from an aesthetic standpoint, but you should be interested in it from a functional standpoint. If your property has any unique features, is in an area with restrictive building codes, or any other challenges, it requires a creative mind to work within these restrictions and still build a home which meets your desires.

Do You Desire an Artistic Home or a Comfortable Home?

Not everyone desires a home which is artistic or a show-piece. Many of us just want a home which is highly functional, comfortable, and easy to maintain. This does not change the need to have an innovative person providing your drafting solutions. You probably have a few unique desires, special appliances, or some other item which makes your home special. It is sometimes these small differences which require the most innovative mind. How can you take a relatively standard design and make it mesh perfectly with the desires of the home buyer?

Daryl Wood and Kwang Ja Lim of Drafting Concepts Pty Ltd are insistent on good communication with home buyers and builders during the design process. They have concluded the only way to be truly innovative and creative in designing a home is to work closely with the people who will build the home and live in it. A designer can sometimes come up with wild ideas only to discover they are going to be extremely costly or the buyer hates them. By communicating clearly throughout the process they make sure their creative ideas come together smoothly with the ideas of the home buyer and the needs of the builder.

When you sit down with your Brisbane draftsman during the quoting process or design phase of your home ask them questions about their most innovative properties. A fun question to ask is about how they overcame their biggest drafting challenge. The answers to these types of questions can give you some insight into their capability.

Browse Portfolios to Generate Ideas

Looking through the portfolio of draftsman Brisbane home buyers have been using will give you some good clues to their creative mind, also. A great example of creativity can be seen in the portfolio of Drafting Concepts Pty Ltd. Take a look at the Miami Mansion they designed. The multiple levels of the home, the attached swimming pool, and fact the house is built into a hillside all required innovative ideas. Your home plans may not be quite as elaborate, but the same attention to detail is required.

What if you desire a creative home but are without ideas on your own? This is another time it is good to talk to your draftsman, Brisbane builders, and maybe even an artistic minded friend. Ask to see some the homes they have worked on in the past. Visit with them about where they get ideas from. Talk to your draftsman about what you find interesting, your lifestyle needs, and long-term desires. They can help you to take your whirling thoughts and start putting them into rough sketches and final construction drawings. When you have selected the right Brisbane draftsman coming up with innovative ideas is just part of their fun. Talk to Daryl or Kwang Ja Lim at Drafting Concepts about getting a free quote and at the same time discuss with them some of your ideas and desires.