Numbering and Revising Multisheet Drawings Question 2

[DraftingSuper]

There is a difference of opinion in our company regarding the numbering and revising of multisheet drawings. The current company standard is to put Sheet 1 of X on the first sheet and then number the following sheets as Sheet 2, Sheet 3, etc. If one or more sheets of a multisheet drawing are revised, only the revised sheets are "reved up", not all sheets.

Our company acquired an electronic controls manufacturer who wants the drawings to have the Sheet X of X on every sheet and when any sheet within the multisheet drawing is revised, they want all sheets to be "reved up" to the same rev level which they say is an "industry standard".

Does anyone have some input on this? My background is mechanical and I am not familiar with the electronic controls industry.

 

[btrueblood]

Even smarter, good point ewh.

 

[looslib]

Pro/E allows you to set up 2 sheet templates. One for the first sheet and the other for the following sheets. This way you can have the full titleblock on sheet 1 and a minimal on subsequent sheets per Y14.2, I think.

We would but "No Change on this Sheet" on sheet that did not chnage.

Another note we used was "Sheet added at this rev".


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[KENAT]

Our drawing formats were re-drawn a few years back to closely follow asme stds.

They only have a rev history block on the 'sheet 1' format, the continuation sheets don't have a rev history block, just the current rev.

This is in a system that has all sheets at the same rev.

I think the UK system I worked had the same format for all sheets with rev history on all sheets BUT only teh ECO # was given, no details.

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[Enginerd9]

I still haven't figured out how to quote other posts on here besides a whole bunch of cutting and pasting, which on mobile is cumbersome.

So, I'll add my 2 cents as follows:

It makes logical sense to have "Sheet X of Y" on each sheet, that way you can tell which sheet came from where when you're working on a large desk and everything gets all jumbled up for some reason.

Revision control is done on Sheet 1 of Y. You can link a "rev cell" on each subsequent sheet to the main rev on sheet 1, and it'll take care of all of it. I do agree that controlling the revision level of all sheets separately is too cumbersome to be practical.

Also, typically in my multi-sheet prints, I'm referencing some kind of large assembly or complicated part with many views. In either case, the title block should be reflecting the same part number across each sheet... so, revision control in then intuitively common. If you change a part on sheet 3, it'll affect sheet 1 since that's the main view of your part / assembly. The revision block on sheet one should say "changed widget, sheet 3" and there you go.

Maybe that's my method and it doesn't make sense for others... but, that's how I handle multi-sheet prints and rev control of them.

 

[ewh]

I think the original intent was to avoid having to physically change every sheet when the only change was the addition or subtraction of sheets. This makes sense in a manual world, but seems to lose importance in our electronic one.

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[KENAT]

That's my understanding too ewh.

A lot of the 'old conventions' were to minimize changes on hard drawings.

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