Annotation to show in Family Elevation

[Anonymous]

I have searched everywhere and having a hard time trying to get my Family which I have labeled to show the label in elevation and section when loaded into project here is the scenario.

Revit Arch 2008

I used the electrical wall family and created a switch on this family wall. I then labeled this switch within the switch family. When I load my SWITCH into my project the label shows in plan view. However I don't want the label to show in Plan only in Elevation and Section.

I figured out that I have to change the Settings -> Family Category and Paramters to Shared. for both the Generic family and my Switch Family.

Issue being that when I load in the Generic Family (Label) into my Switch Family I get an error stating saying the following

While loading family 'Family11': Only the following kinds of families can be loaded into a 3d model family:
- 3d model families
- detail families
- generic annotations
- section heads
- level heads
- grid heads

That is when I create an annotation myself. If I use a generic family already created like Label-Annotation. I can load this in fine, but when I change that Label to Shared I get this error

While loading family 'Label Annotation 3-32': Shared annotations cannot be used in 3d model families.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Bill

[Anonymous]

This question i have discovered the answer. You need to use Model Text and turn off the visibility of that text in plan view.

Hope this will help others in the future

[Anonymous]

you need to nest an annotation family containing text inside of your symbol
family


wrote in message news:5630831@discussion.autodesk.com...
This question i have discovered the answer. You need to use Model Text and
turn off the visibility of that text in plan view.

Hope this will help others in the future