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Title Block Signatures


Rob Glisson

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We have reached the age of digital submissions to permitting departments. To do this, we need to digitally sign all drawings, date, and issue pdf's to the department.

If we could have this performed through something like the Issue Manager - "Sign and Seal all checked sheets" it would be an amazing savings in time.

A recent example had us doing the following:

1. Plot 9 sets for City of Orlando Permit Department - yes, 9

This took 6 hours to plot

2. Sign and Seal all sheets

This took 4 hours, 2 sittings, one sore hand

3. Assemble and prepare for delivery

This took 3 hours

If we could just do this from the Issue Manager and pdf directly to the building department, it would have taken less than 1/2 hour

13 hours minus 1/2 hour = 12 1/2 hours of saved time!!!!!!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

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Soooo, the wish is fine with me, but in the meantime would an old fashioned workaround suffice?

Prior to plotting, create the digital signature (scan? pen/tablet? freehand mouse?). Create a signature-date-seal object in the drawing. Make it a symbol or even a nested symbol, one for each component. Class it to control overall and component visibility. Paste it onto the sheets where it is needed. That would save most of the wet signature time.

Or if object is required on all sheets, edit the 2d component of the title block symbol in the resource browser Sheet Border Components. Paste the signature/seal symbol into the 2d geometry. For later issues, edit the signature symbol with new date, etc.

This workaround obviously needs some close management to apply the signatures only where/when they are needed. But it saves all that sore hand work. These signatures appear in the pdf, so the signed drawings can be submitted digitally instead of plotted.

We are in a shifting landscape. Some agencies I work still want wet signature on paper. Others accept digital signatures on contracts. No hard copy required. They send back their digitally signed copy as a pdf. No paper. I guess signature fraud is not a great concern.

-B

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Hello all,

 

Is the Drawing Stamp in the Title block border object getting the job done for this type of signatures? If so, you can easily modify the drawing stamps of multiple title block border objects using the title block manager menu command.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

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On 3/11/2022 at 7:03 PM, Nikolay Zhelyazkov said:

Hello all,

 

Is the Drawing Stamp in the Title block border object getting the job done for this type of signatures? If so, you can easily modify the drawing stamps of multiple title block border objects using the title block manager menu command.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

It'll be great if 2D symbols can be used as custom drawing stamp 🙂

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We just have our stamp and signature embedded into the title block but on a special class that we can turn on when we are issuing a stamped set.  I sometimes lament the loss of that rite of passage as an intern to spend your entire afternoon stamping and forging signatures - but adapt or die. 

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