revision clouds & WIP status

[Leire Bilbao]

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?

[Laszlo Nagy]

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.

 

[Lingwisyer]

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...

[Leire Bilbao]

Thank for your answers, I guess I need to explain better:

We issue a revision with its transmittal set and date and everything which shows in the drawing register as such.

After a few weeks, a change happens, let's say a wall was moved which affects several layouts (finishes layout, walls layout, services layout, RCP). The person that moves this wall makes a change saying "wall moved" and puts a cloud with this change in all this 4 layouts, but don't have time to issue it now because everyone is busy with other layouts. So this 4 layouts will have this cloud with that change in WIP status for let's say 2 months until someone has time to issue a revision for them.

Now let's say that we have about 80 of these changes with clouds all over the file, So our drawing register shows about 30 drawings with WIP status.

Please don't focus on "your project management is bad", because that is out of my hands. We do what we can with that. I can only change archicad workflows.