Hiding elements in callout region for clarity

[MuirEng]

View callouts are a great method for dealing with clutter/density problems on a plan but then we find it necessary to go back into the source view and manually hide elements in the callout region. This is a bit of a nuisance. Does anyone have related suggestions? Are there any tools out there than allow selection of a callout region and automaticaly hide the contents (i.e. effectively set within the callout region to a coarse view)? Do you create masking regions? Any other hints?

thanks. 

[barthbradley]

Hide/Change Display of content INSIDE a Callout View?  What about using Element or Category V&GOs the same way as any other View?

[barthbradley]

...or Rule-Based Filters and View Templates. 

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@MuirEng wrote:

Do you create masking regions? 

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Masking Regions for what?  

[ToanDN]

Why would you need to hide elements in the parent view?  This isn't AutoCAD or hand drafting where you try to avoid drawing things twice.

- If you create a callout view with a larger scale for annotation then don't annotate the parent view portion within the callout area.  

- Control detail levels for parent views and call-out views via Coarse, Medium, Fine settings for the view and components.

[MuirEng]

The reason is that the source view (where the callout is drawn) just looks terrible inside the callout with annotation symbols overlapping because there are so many objects in a tight space. Typical example is a kitchen where electrical services are to dense to show at 1/8" to 1' so we callout at 1/4" to 1'. 

Note that I understand how to adjust the features of the detail callout view, this is all about the source view that makes the callout. Masking regions are an obvious solution that we've tried but it's still a bit of a nuisance.

[ToanDN]

Open the call-out view, do a window select and filter to select the categories you want to hide, create a selection filter. Hi back to the parent view, add the selection filter and hide it 

[RSomppi]

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@MuirEng wrote:

inside the callout with annotation symbols overlapping because there are so many objects in a tight space.

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Add a visibility parameter to the symbols and turn them off by element within the callout.

[ToanDN]

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@RSomppi wrote:

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@MuirEng wrote:

inside the callout with annotation symbols overlapping because there are so many objects in a tight space.

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Add a visibility parameter to the symbols and turn them off by element within the callout.

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If you mean adding a visibility parameter to the families to turn them off in the project then no it does not work because it turns off the symbols of the families globally, not per view.