Exploding Blocks - Why would you?
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I've been tasked with updating my company's CADD Standards.
As I'm going through it, I'm seeing relics that need updating. For example: They reference a mechanical standard from 1982, which has been updated several times since. Yes, some things are out of date, but I can see why they were implemented.
However, this one baffles me:
"Blocks and groups may be created and inserted into the drawing. All blocks and groups MUST be exploded and purged from the drawing before archiving the drawing file."
What is the possible benefit of this? I think this is unacceptable, but I also want to have a solid argument to management people (who don't use CAD) and are more likely to side with the ancient author of this document.
If anything, this proposes a world of undoing work and errors.
The only benefit I can think of is that maybe this saved some space / processing power when computers had MBs of ram rather than GBs.
Any ideas?