For our site plot plan, there will be a few different drawings (using Xrefs) and each drawing will appear to be totally different to many people looking at a print of it. Of course, they will have the ability to open a dwf of each drawing, but the question of layers and the 'confusion' of "Which version is which" came up.
They are worried that if Jack prints the drawing off with a certain set of layers visible and Jill prints it off with a different set of layers, the two will wonder why the two drawings (same drawing number) show different information, but are both at the same revision level.
One 'solution' that was suggested was for me to issue a new sketch number every time someone wanted the drawing plotted with different layers visible. Personally, I hate this idea because it will eventually bring us back to having multiple versions of the plot plan floating around. The purpose of this project was to merge and / or archive the 400 or so different plot plans into one master, then to Xref it out to about 3 or 4 'sub-master' drawings for each discipline such as Electrical, Piping, EH&S, Underground, etc. In each master, I will set the default layer settings so that only layers pertaining to that discipline will be visible.
So, instead of creating a new sketch every 5 days, I thought that placing a note in a highly visible location of the drawing that explains changing the visibility of the layers might result in what some might think to be a completely different drawing. My problem is that I can't figure out how to put it into words and have it sound professional, yet easily understood by non-CAD people.
Any ideas out there?
(Sorry for rambling...again)
Thanks a lot,
Mike
