9 August 2022
How to Rapidly Update Title Blocks in AutoCAD
The project is ready to go to the client. You’ve nailed the deadline, and you feel like the AutoCAD® king. And then Chris semi-casually tells you there are two new sheets that need to be added before it goes to the client. Any hope you had of joining the family for dinner this evening evaporates. The project is already 367 sheets long. The two new additions are sheets 12 and 49. The title block on every sheet from sheet 13 onwards is going to have to be updated. Manually. One at a time.
The other guys start leaving for the day when the boss stops by your desk with a pained expression on his face. There are more changes to make, he tells you. Jeez, Louise. “I’m so sorry to do this to you,” he says apologetically. “But the client just completed a merger and the company name in every title block has to be changed.”
You look at him blankly, biting your tongue.
The client just completed a merger and the company name in every title block has to be changed.
“I guess the good news is that they’re going ahead with the project, eh?” and he pats you on the shoulder and leaves for the day.
Good news? Multiple changes to 367 sheets? At this time of day on a Friday? Since you’re the last guy in the office, nobody’s there to see the impressive jets of steam emitting from your ears or hear the long line of colorful NSFW expletives you let rip.
Who in their right mind wants to work late on a Friday, simply to update blasted title blocks in AutoCAD? Everyone else has already left the office to kickstart their weekend, but there you are — stuck with this tedious task.
The Importance of Title Blocks
If you’re a seasoned AutoCAD pro, please bear with us as we recap for any greenhorns out there. It won’t take long and then we’ll get to the good stuff: the stuff that’ll have you home, eating dinner with your family, practically in the blink of an eye.
Somewhere on an AutoCAD drawing is a space known as a title block. It’s most often in the lower left- or right-hand corner, but its position is generally dictated by the client. It contains all the information needed to identify the drawing and verify its validity. This is the space where important drawing details are indicated, such as the project name, the author’s name, the scale, the date the drawing was created, and its position within a drawing series.
It's easy to see why the title block — and the accuracy of the data it contains — is important.
Having to manually change every single sheet number for hundreds of sheets is a pain in the neck, though. And pasting the new company name, repeatedly, more than three hundred times is not only boring but, dude, it’s seriously beneath you. You’re so much better than that. But no, you’re going to sit, alone in the office, pasting until the cows come home while your family is eating pizza and watching a movie. (As are all the other guys from the office. Just saying.)
Level the Title Block Playing Field
What if we told you that you could update all those sheet numbers and modify all the data fields — we kid you not — virtually automatically? How? With a tool to update title blocks in AutoCAD for you!
Title Block Manager™. The name says it all.
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