topic Re: revision clouds & WIP status in Documentation

revision clouds & WIP status

Leire Bilbao — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:46:22 GMT

This might sound like a weird question but I'm having a debate at work.

Does any of you leave a cloud with a change in a drawing without issuing it immediately. the reasons being you don't have time to issue a revision but you don't want to forget about it and you want to let your team know of that change.

Later on, when you have time to issue, you already have the change there (this might happen 1 or 2 months later).

This will leave a WIP status in the drawing that will appear in the Drawing Register, so our drawing register has many WIP status because we are often behind with our revisions.

Does anyone use the clouds in advance like this? Any opinions or comments about this work flow?

Also our Drawing Register takes long to print and I wonder if it is because it has to calculate so many clouds and WIP statuses. is it so?

Re: revision clouds & WIP status

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:38:23 GMT

I don't know if this info will be useful to you or not, but in the Book Settings Dialog, you can click to edit the settings of the latest Transmission Set and specify which Change Markers you want to be displayed.

Re: revision clouds & WIP status

Lingwisyer — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:07:44 GMT

Are you saying that you are adding Change Markers after Closing an Issue? Then issuing drawings that have changes without making a new Revision? That sounds like a tracking nightmare...