Errata: Obviously, other replies mentionned the same solution while I was composing this response. Although, curious to note that @barthbradley'.s solution is to avoid the stated problem! 😉
@StephMarsh
I have a lot of groups in my template files.
But I need to now make them families. I have a chart that would be for New York State or New York City.
It would work best as a family. I don't want to remake the chart.
I'm assuming from your title and use of the word "chart", that the "groups" are Revit detail groups and are in the form of a grid of lines and text.
If so, for each detail group, you could:
1. Place them on an empty view at the scale required (I will assume 1:1);
2. Export to DWG the view;
3. Create a new generic annotation family and set scale to 1:1;
4. Import CAD and explode the import;
5. Select all lines and assign them to the line object style required. Do the same to the all the text elements.
6. Purge the unused layers in the generic annotation.
You could also export all your detail groups on one mega DWG to RFA to process steps 5 & 6 at the same time, then create the individual RFA files from that work file and erase the data not applicable in each seperate chart RFA.
-luc
