Morning all
I've recently started at a water utilities company where the CAD system and management is a bit old fashioned but this is partly to do with having draftsmen that don't like anything new and are stuck in their ways. My problem is that our block library is made up of thousands of individual blocks that aren't kept up to date so we have a magnetude of folders and sub folders etc. What doesn't help is that each draftsmen has their own folder with their own blocks in rather than everyone working off of one folder/system.
Currently we have a network drive that everyone is mapped to which has dozens and dozens of folders and sub folders for people to insert their blocks from. We still use the insert tab on the ribbon to insert blocks rather than having a library of sorts on the autocad design centre or tool palettes.
What I'd ideally like is to have a more effiecent way of storing all of our blocks and dynamic blocks so that we can all work from the same blocks. I was looking at creating tool palettes for these but don't want to go down this route if other solutions are considered more effective. One reason I liked the idea of tool palettes is that we could create them in house and then send them out to our consultants so everyone is working from the same block library. Either way, I need to sort something out.
Any suggestions? I feel like starting from scratch is a potential option so anything is a go really!
Many thanks