Updating old drawings with Annotative function

[spidercad]

Hello

 

I've been given the arduous task of updating all of our site plans (hundreds of buildings on several different campuses) to use annotative text/blocks. I'm not that crash hot on the annotative function to begin with & I'm in the midst of my research now.

 

My querry is what would be the best/most efficient way to systematically go through many drawings updating all the text/blocks/hatch to make use of the new annotative function. I've started with the text & have found out you can set the annotative function through the text style and update the drawing using the ANNOUPDATE command. But I'm wondering how do I set several different scale representations with this method, without having to modify each block of text individually?

 

Am I on the right path guys?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

(using autocad 2010)

[spidercad]

Since there has been no replies I'll begin to answer my own questions. If there is a quicker, more efficient way to do things, please let me know.

 

It's quite easy to isolate text with the isolate layer command & I have been changing text to annotative through this option rather then through the text style & ANNOUPDATE, purely because ANNOUPDATE seems to reset the rotation of objects updated (for me anyway) The major & most time consuming issue is having to re-position all the different text for the different scales set. If anyone knows a more simpler way around this, I would be very thankful.

 

Blocks & Attributes are relatively easy and sometimes I can get away with using ATTSYNC to sync all my attributes.

Any tips & shortcuts would be appreciated