Just realized my old way of setting up title blocks was costing me hours

I was at a job site in Tacoma last month and saw the foreman using a single dynamic block for all his sheet info. He set it up once in the template and it auto-filled everything. I copied his method and it cut my setup time for a 50-sheet set from about 3 hours down to 30 minutes. Anyone have a different template trick that saved them a bunch of time?

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ericp673mo ago

My old boss used to waste days on manual layer setups before we switched to standards.

martinez.anna1mo ago

lol hard disagree with @taylor82 on this one. templates are great for like 95% of stuff but I've seen too many people get burned when a project comes in with weird specs or a client that wants something totally custom and now you're fighting your own template trying to make it work. sometimes those few extra minutes setting up sheets manually saves you hours later when something doesn't auto populate right and you gotta dig through 50 drawings to fix it. plus it forces you to actually look at each sheet setup instead of just assuming the template caught everything.

taylor823mo agoTop Commenter

Wait, you guys are still setting up sheets one by one? @ericp67 I get the layer thing, but templates should handle all that boring stuff for you. My whole office runs off one master template, it's a total game changer.