Fields by themselves aren’t much to shout about, but when used with Sheet Set Manager, they are huge time savers. We have our title block set up with fields, which makes adding a new sheet #3 in a 50 sheet set, adding a revision date and updating the total number of sheets, easy and quick.
We also use them anywhere we have a note such as (See Sheet XX). Using a field linked to the Sheet Number property of that sheet, will automatically update whenever the sheet number changes in Sheet set manager, so you never have to go back and check for every reference like that to manually update them. We have also used them a lot when we start a project without knowing all the actual street names. We set up a Sheet Set property called “STREET A”, with an initial value of “STREET A” and use a field to reference that Sheet Set property anywhere that the street name will need to be shown. After that it’s just a simple thing to later update the Sheet Set Property value to “THOMAS STREET’ and it will be update that field everywhere it is on every sheet in the entire Sheet Set. And when it changes again to “JONES DRIVE” at the last minute, no problem, change the Property value and have Sheet Set Manager do the plotting in the background and they all get updated again without having to even open a drawing. That saves hours of time with every project we do.
Fields won’t do everything, but once you start using them with Sheet Set Manager, you’ll HATE having to work with a set of drawings that don’t have them set up. And the bigger the set of drawings, the more time saved.
Ken