Plan Production Sheet - Setups

[Pault43]

Hey everyone, I apologize in advance if someone here works the way I'm describing, I mean no disrespect. 

 

I've been around C3D long enough to have lived through the old original "data-shortcut" information into the sheet to get label smart objects, which I pretty much hated (we just labeled in the xref at that point). Then Autodesk gave us the ability to label through xrefs and life got so much better from there. We had 2D base files and 3D source drawings, xrefed into sheets, labeld through the xrefs (all but profiles) and utilized layer states.  Autodesk also gave us the ability to utilize the layer state within each base file or source drawing to control each xrefs visual state individually.  I would call this a traditional setup.

 

Now I'm seeing a trend in some companies/users to either draw everything in 2D in a base file, xref that in a sheet and then trace with ghost pipe network parts and alignments to design in the sheet - or - to design in the sheet and xref the sheet into one another to get the alignments/pipes to show up as background information in other sheets.  Either way, when I asked why? The answer I got was because it's easier to design when you can see the information in the label. This way leaves a Sheet file that I've seen have up to 12 tabs as to prevent splitting the network up.

 

I'm used to utilizing the part descriptions and xref/labels in the sheet are a basically a byproduct of the design files.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this.  Anyone seen this before?  Am I missing anything other than to each there own?