Warning: A client's offhand comment about my title block setup saved me hours of work

I was finishing up a set of foundation plans for a new clinic in Tacoma, and the project manager came over to check the progress. He pointed at my custom title block with all its linked fields and said, 'You know, if you nest that reference file one more level, it'll update across all 30 sheets when the client inevitably changes the address next month.' I'd been doing it the hard way for two years, manually updating each sheet. Has anyone else had a simple tip from a client or coworker completely change a routine part of your drafting process?

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faiths123d agoTop Commenter

Wait, nesting reference files is a bad idea for title blocks. It can cause major corruption in the sheet index and mess up your entire project file. The standard way is to put your title block on a design layer and reference that single file into every sheet layer. That way you only update it once.

betty_park3d ago

Actually nesting works fine if you keep the reference path relative.