Different variation of the same drawing - what is best practice here?

[A_Gerner]

Hello all, 

I'm sitting in a company, where we have one generic drawing to be used in multiple variations of drawings. 
At first we did a table on the generic drawing, but when more variation has come, it just fills the whole drawing.. So, I've started to use sheets for each variant of the product. This is somewhat useful, but I could see an issue when having a lot of drawings.. 

As it can be seen on the above picture I have 2 sheets for each part number (Technical and Sales drawing). For now it's a decent solution, but I'm already on to add 10 more part numbers.. (20 in total). 

So, what is best practice to do with such drawings? 

I'd prefer having one drawing pr. part number, since I don't see any reason that the customer should see all the other part numbers.. 

I hope that someone can help me out. 🙂 
Thanks in advance! 

[mluterman]

You can have one .idw file as you have, but with only 2 sheets. Turn your .ipt into a Model State part with each member having its own PN/Description, etc. Your drawing should have its fields in its Title Block such that it dumps in those member specs from each Model State member. Now, when you place the .ipt on your drawing, the drawing's Title Block will populate/update accordingly. Also, when you change the Model State PN in your drawing view, it will update the Title Block accordingly.  The disadvantage will be that you can only see one part's info. one-at-a-time until you change the Model State member, but you now have a drawing that reacts dynamically to changes in the Model State. This way you can have one drawing with two sheets that cover an "unlimited" amount of parts without having 2x the number of sheets per part on the drawing.