Attributes - why use them?

That's great that you figured out attributes & what they are used for.

I do structural drafting & use them for many things.

Some of the other uses you might find are.

Room names. / numbers.
Section cuts example the numbers 1 / A4 in the cut bubble.
Key notes.

Anything that has text that has to be changed but you want the block to look
consistent.

Oh, and I disagree with the date as an attribute in the titleblock. Reason
is instead of just changing it one time for all of the sheets I now would
have to change it for each sheet if it was an attribute. (although I used to
do it that way).

I don't know how you set up your title block but I do it like this.

I xref my titleblock into paperspace. This way all of my layouts & sheets
will always stay the same. Then when I need to change my date I change it in
the titleblock dwg.

I insert a block into paperspace with the following information in it:
Sheet # , sheet title, and anything that changes from sheet to sheet.

Great job & keep learning.

Rick

 

I use all of the methods that you described as well. (I xref my attribute
titleblock) I like to hear that my ideas are 'normal.' (The architectural
desktop provides some symbols in their library, and they use attributes too

 

I work in the Mechanical discipline. We don't have door schedules and tags like many of you. Our uses for attributed blocks are few, but I'm always looking for more ways to use them.

We use attributes for the "changeable" text in our Title Blocks (TB) and Tolerance Blocks (TOL). I have experimented with using them for our BOM and REV blocks, but find their limit of eight (8) lines per frame er.."limiting". I would like to see that expanded to as many lines as necessary for the task at hand.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Perhaps a lisp program that would enhance the performance.