Titleblock: X-Ref vs. Inserted Block

[silvernich]

Hello all,

I wanted to poll peoples opinions and experience in how they manage adding titleblocks to sheets. On my last few projects I had x-ref'd in a titleblock which contained all of the generic info that was consistent throughout the whole sheet set. Then I created a block that I inserted into each sheet that I could edit and make sheet specific.

While this works, once you have insertion points correct, I was thinking about instead making the generic part of the titleblock a block also. My concern is that as I have revisions, the generic block that I would update would not "ripple" through the whole set quite like it did when I was x-refing it in.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Thank you for your help,

Silvernich

[Neilw_05]

This topic has been discussed recently and in the past in this forum. You will also find it discussed in the CAD manager forum.

I suggest a search on Title Block

[Joe-Bouza]

I think you answered your own question.

...Oh shoot I have to change the address in the Logo - NOW.... for 100 sheets!

I'd rather be burning steaks again. How about you?

[AllenJessup]

What I do now is to have the titleblocks set up in a DWT. We add Layout from Template. The titleblock contains both editable text and fields. We don't have any fancy logos.

I understand that originally blocks were used to save space. But out titleblock is so simple it isn't worth it. Also not much is ever going to change for us. So this method is fine.

What I would do if that weren't the case for us is to have a base titleblock stored with our standards. I would then make a copy of that block in the drawing folder for each project. That block would be Xrefed in to all the sheets for that job. Then have a second block to insert and explode for the info that varies from sheet to sheet.

That way if you need to change part of the basic block in multiple sheets. You can edit the block in the drawing folder and have it reflected on all the sheets for that job without affecting any other job.

Allen Jessup