You may be stuck editing each one...for example sequential sheet numbering will NOT automatically countdown or up on your title block.

No, there is a way to do what you're looking to do. It just takes a little ingenuity and thought.

I can't tell you exactly how to do it (since I too am still learning how to build mine), but I can give you the two words that will get you started: DYNAMIC BLOCKS

Good Luck!!


Edited by HAWDesigner - 10.Jan.2011 at 23:46

Take some time and read through this pdf to learn about sheet sets: http://heidihewett.blogs.com/my_weblog/files/Sheets_Happen.pdf

Easiest way to do that is to create a title block as an x-ref. Put all the information on the title block which is the same for all drawings then create block attributes for the text information that changes from sheet to sheet.  This way a lot less work to keep up with....

I hope this helps

msplcdykee69 has described the correct method if you have mutliple dwg files with multiple layout tabs within. If you only have one dwg file, you can use a block instead. That block would consist of Text for line items the stay the same throughout the file, i.e. Project Name, Date, Client, etc. For line items that change you would use Attributes, i.e. Sheet No., Sheet Name, Scale, etc The nice part is both the Text and Attributes will never shift locations as long as you use the same origin. Once the block is copied into each Layput Tab, you need only update the text within the block once and it will update all the layouts. Its nice to remeber, Xrefs are for using the same information across muliple files. Blocks are for using the same information within the same file. Xrefs still require a seperate "Title Block Info" Block to be used in conjunction as Attributes do not function within Xrefs. Hope that sheds more light on this topic.