Tuesday, August 25, 2020

2020-08-25 Tuesday - Ideas for Architecture Diagram Title Blocks

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 I've begun drafting some ideas for what kind of information may be useful to include in "Title Block" for architecture diagrams. 

  • I think that the current state (or, lack thereof) of annotating software design architectural drawings - is abysmal - and much might be gleaned by looking left-and-right - and seeing how other industries annotate their diagrams.

  • Problem Statement:

    • Diagrams that are exported from authoring tools, culled form PowerPoint, Visio, etc. - usually do not have a proper "Title Block" included.
    • These diagrams are then uploaded to various places, emailed, shared, embedded (e.g. in PPT, Word, web sites, etc.).
    • Thus, the thread of context is lost - and they become orphans, once separated - with no clear traceability (i.e. Who, What, When, Where, Why)
  • I've done a brief survey of different Title Block styles - from various construction blueprints and building architecture diagrams - to gather some examples - as input to writing this document.

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