strange problem with drawing template

[kippax]

Following some changes within our company I have taken the opportunity to modify and improve our title block/templates.

 

All seemed to go well. Saved the new templates within the appropriate folder and they worked fine.

 

However, I have now come to revise an older drawing which uses the old template. I need to add a new layout and used the new templates to do this, but the newly created layout is now an odd mish-mash of the new an old versions of the title block and as such unusable.

 

Any ideas ?

[kippax]

Come to the conclusion that its something to do with the blocks.

 

Ended up deleting the old layouts and when I then imported from the new template file the title blocks were fine.

 

Still be handy to know how to sort this though as deleting the layout tabs may not always be convenient.

[NBC]

Try using the RENAME command to rename your 'old' title blocks so that they don't 'clash' with your updated title blocks

[nukecad]

Yes; what NBC said.

 

When updating drawing templates it is best practice to either-

 

Add a revision letter to the updated template blockname. (Same as you would with drawing revisions).

or

Incorporate the date into the blockname.

 

That way when you load the new one into a drawing that has or had the old one there is no clash of names and so no redefining of the blocks.

[kippax]

Try using the RENAME command to rename your 'old' title blocks so that they don't 'clash' with your updated title blocks

 

So your saying that the problem is that my my old and new templates contain different blocks, but with the same name.

 

So ideally what I need to do in-order to prevent conflicts is to rename the blocks in my NEW templates.

 

That way if I create a new layout tab in an old drawing the old layout tabs will have the old title blocks, but the new layout tabs will have the new title block with no issues. ...

[NBC]

That sounds like a fair enough solution. yep