Our system centers around simplifying, grouping, and redistribution (symbols, keyed note blocks, and sheet redistribution) of information. In an ever more competitive market, it becomes more critical than ever to optimize systems and minimize unnecessary review cycles.
Some prefer the comfort of a text note with a leader pointing to a specific location, for legal/contractual purposes, I believe there is a better system to tackle both issues. This means the drawings are 10x more likely to need an additional review to ensure everything has been updated! Think about it…why require drafters to constantly adjust text notes that do not link to dynamically updating plans, sections, elevations, and details? We can update a door in an instant, why not our, arguably just as important, notes? Never mind if the drafter remembers exactly where each note is located. A simple example, if one text note is used across 10 different view that means a drafter must update the same text note 10 times. Even after everything has been adjusted there is still the potential for missing changes. However, simply because it is easier, than what it used to be, does not mean it is still the best way. It has become so easy to quickly add a text note with a leader and duplicate it across multiple plan views because we can quickly revise and print another set in under a minute. This does not even consider modern BIM workflows! Now that firms no longer require hand drafting, we seem to have lost those time saving standards that came from hand drafting entire drawing sets. Solely relying on text notes only exacerbating legibility issues in drawings. Text notes are over relied on as a method of communicating information about drawings, to the point where it clutters drawings, creates repetitive notes, and creates QAQC issues.
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