Hide & unhide all text that are comments

[Marcus.Isacsson]

Hi fellas!

I would like to be able to hide & unhide all text that are "comments" made in different views.
Short information notes between co-workers that needs to be hidden during a print.

Any ideas how this could be accomplished?

Thanks in advance

[RobDraw]

There are several workarounds that require the user to do something before and after printing. I don't care for them. I suggest putting the notes in a view that is not printed, such as a dedicated view for design/engineering/drafting notes.

[bin]

Maybe... if they are the same font, select all and hide in each view, depending on how many views there are.

Or you can create a selection and apply a filter to view template.

Or Dynamo...

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@bin wrote:

Maybe... if they are the same font, select all and hide in each view, depending on how many views there are.

Or you can create a selection and apply a filter to view template.

Or Dynamo...

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Well, this would take ages and there's a high risk of missing views during a print.
Dynamo could be an option, will give it a try (though my knowledge is really limited)

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@RobDraw wrote:

There are several workarounds that require the user to do something before and after printing. I don't care for them. I suggest putting the notes in a view that is not printed, such as a dedicated view for design/engineering/drafting notes.

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We tried this alternative, but it gets really messy since all section markers gets duplicated and so on. There's also a risk of missing important notes since you ignore/forget those views.

We also have to group all annotations and 2D objects if we want detail drawings with comments to show the same as the parent view. Works, but would be better if we just could hide & unhide all comments. 

[RobDraw]

I'm not sure how section marks have anything to do with this.

There is no elegant solution. You either have to rely on users to something before and after printing or you keep the notes out of the printed sheets. I opt for the latter. If the users cannot be relied upon to check the views that are dedicated to giving them direction, then they aren't doing their jobs. IMHO, I'd rather not risk having stuff show up on my prints because someone missed a check box.

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@RobDraw wrote:

I'm not sure how section marks have anything to do with this.

There is no elegant solution. You either have to rely on users to something before and after printing or you keep the notes out of the printed sheets. I opt for the latter. If the users cannot be relied upon to check the views that are dedicated to giving them direction, then they aren't doing their jobs. IMHO, I'd rather not risk having stuff show up on my prints because someone missed a check box.

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If you duplicate a section (one with comments, one without) you'll end up having 2 x section marks in the plan view.
This will happen for every view. I agree that it works, but it isn't elegant.

The best option would be to have a color that doesn't print, this was possible in AutoCAD and would fill a purpose in Revit as well. 

Not doing their jobs is a bit harsh if a project contains 100+ views with comments updating weekly, we're only humans after all. 

But this seems to be a lost cause, guess Dynamo is my only option regarding this request. 

[dferreira-blackwell]

https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/hide-unhide-text-notes/39429

[Marcus.Isacsson]

Creating a "Metric Generic Annotation" with a multi line label seems to work. But is it possible to somehow give a label a subcategory? 

[RobDraw]

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@Marcus.Isacsson wrote:

Not doing their jobs is a bit harsh if a project contains 100+ views with comments updating weekly, we're only humans after all. 

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I only call them the way I see them. If your job is to feed 100 homeless starving people and you only feed 98. You're not doing your job. If you think that's harsh, fine.

[barthbradley]

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[ToanDN]

Create a dedicated text style and place comments using that only, then use Dynamo to turn on/off the style.  Attached are the scripts based the text style named (NONPLOT) Red Text.

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@ToanDN wrote:

Create a dedicated text style and place comments using that only, then use Dynamo to turn on/off the style.  Attached are the scripts based the text style named (NONPLOT) Red Text.

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Thanks alot @ToanDN! Exactly what I needed.
But I seem to run into some problems (Dynamo 2.0.3). I've attached the Dynamo workspace as an image.

 

[BaoHuynh]

You can change color for Text is 254-254-254 and print with Color Mode or Grayscale

[barthbradley]

@Marcus.Isacsson: Why not just put the comments in a workset?  Easy enough to turn off.  

[RobDraw]

How do you put text onto a workset?

[dferreira-blackwell]

how about creating a family with text label, and use that instead of comments. then you can put it on workset and turn it off as needed.

[ToanDN]

Make sure you have the Packages below installed (overkill but they are useful for other things too).

The text style should be Red Text and the line style should be Red Lines (the style name in previous name is incorrect). if you want to use different style name then change the nodes in the Dynamo script to match.

Below are the snapshots of before and after running the scripts.

[barthbradley]

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@RobDraw wrote:

How do you put text onto a workset?

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I'm just spit-balling the concept.   See Post #17.   Sounds good to me.  

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@ToanDN wrote:

Make sure you have the Packages below installed (overkill but they are useful for other things too).

The text style should be Red Text and the line style should be Red Lines (the style name in previous name is incorrect). if you want to use different style name then change the nodes in the Dynamo script to match.

Below are the snapshots of before and after running the scripts.

Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it. But I can't seem to get it to work, I don't know what makes it mess up
(Dynamo 1.3.4.6666). I takes quite some time, could it be that it can't handle all the text notes? (600+)