Workflow updates with AI?

[LeeDrafter]

Hi Chief Community,

I'm wondering if anybody has advice for updating multiple plans with the same information, and I'm wondering if technology has or will help to make this easier. I'm working on designing a new floor plan, and it's not totally finished yet. I have it finished enough to send it out to trades for feedback and start the estimating process, but there will be changes that come from all that. Meanwhile, I need to make a copy of that floor plan and adjust some things to make it work for a different lot. My usual method would be to get everything as perfect as possible on the first plan before I copy it and then just make sure I keep track of all changes to both plans so I can update them both. Then of course this gets even more complicated if I move it to a 3rd lot and start adjusting a 3rd plan. I think the people in the Chief community are all probably really organized and detail oriented and used to keeping track of mulitple changes as us drafters have to do. However, I'm wondering if there is a better way to work on plans simultaneously like this? Thanks for any advice or conversation.

Lee

[SHCanada2]

There has been a lot of discussion on this, and I think the end result is as you do it above (make copies and keep log of changes) is the best way

[Renerabbitt]

On 4/27/2026 at 12:21 PM, LeeDrafter said:

However, I'm wondering if there is a better way to work on plans simultaneously like this? Thanks for any advice or conversation.

Global macros could help for controlling annotations for all projects. Change your global annotation and all plans annotations will change with it