Visibility of Nested Family in Linked File

[paul.ashley]

I have a shared Generic family (on it's own subcategory) nested in a Specialty Equipment family.  In its project file, I can turn off the Specialty Equipment and still see the nested Generic family.  However, when the project is linked into another file, I cannot get this to work.

The family in question (attached) is a mobile shelving unit that resides in an equipment model.  I'd like to be able to show only the rails in a structural model.

[arunag]

Use the Revit Links tab in VG, change the display setting to By Custom, go to Model Categories and again change to custom, then you can put off specialities equipment & see only the railings.

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[paul.ashley · Accepted solution]

Thanks.  This helped but I also had to add another twist because I couldn't just turn off all Specialty Equipment;  some items in that category had to be visible. 

To fix this I resorted to the use of Filters.  I had assigned separate Omnicodes to the host family mobile shelving unit, the nested rails, and the nested shelves.  But I goofed on my Filters in that I shut off the host family's Omnicode rather than just the nested shelves, thus hiding the shelves AND the rails.  When I filterd on the nesed shelf Omnicode only, it worked, displaying only the rails.