Hot take: people are overcomplicating their title block setups

I keep seeing folks in our shop and online forums building these huge, custom title blocks with twenty fields. In my experience, you only need about six key pieces of info for 90% of jobs: drawing number, revision, sheet name, scale, your company name, and the date. I redid our standard block about six months ago after a job in Tacoma got held up because a client couldn't find the revision note in all the clutter. It was buried in a custom field nobody else used. Simpler is faster to fill out and way harder to mess up. Has anyone else cut down their title blocks and seen things run smoother?

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stella_baker1mo ago

The scale field is actually the one we drop most often.

davis.noah1mo ago

Dropped most often" is a nice way to put it. In my experience, that field gets ignored so much it might as well be invisible. It's the first thing to go when people are in a hurry. Honestly, we should just save everyone the time and remove it from the form.

xena37321d ago

Gotta say I used to think the exact opposite. I was all about keeping every field because "more data is better" but reading this totally flipped my thinking. It makes so much sense that something people skip on purpose is just wasted space. You're right, if no one bothers with it then why force them to scroll past it? Feels like one of those things where we overcomplicate forms for no reason. Better to just trim the fat and let people focus on the stuff that actually matters.