Looking for a way to change the subcategory of an annotation family

[Anonymous]

Well, what the title says.

It concerns an annotation that is currently nested in another family but I don't think it really matters.

I can create a new subcatory via Manage> Object Styles but I can't really attach the actual annotation to it.

Any idea how to tackle it?

Thanks in advance!

[Avaris.]

Did you make the new object style within the annotation family?

When loading it into a project it should also show up in the project object styles.

[Anonymous]

"Did you make the new object style within the annotation family?"

Where else?

"When loading it into a project it should also show up in the project object styles."

It doesn't.

[Avaris.]

Sorry for asking 🙂 Just to make sure.

Can you post the family you want to include in your project?

[Anonymous]

There you go.

[Anonymous]

No reason to apologize btw, I honestly wouldn't know where else I could change that.

[Avaris.]

Maybe, I don't understand your question, but when I load it into a project, it shows up under the generic annotation.

[Anonymous]

Odd...

What's you process?

I can change the subcategory (I think), reload it in the family but then the subcategory doesn't show up anymore, when I open the annotation from within the family the subcategory has disappeared.

[Avaris.]

I have no idea. I also tested it when nesting your family within a generic model. The new linestyle I created is visible in the project. Do you also have the family where you nest this generic annotation in?

Note: the generic annotation does not show up in the family where it is nested in, but it is visible in your project!

[Anonymous]

You were right about the categories actually showing up in the project, but I still can't change the colour of the annotation using a view template so something has to be going wrong.

You mentioned linestyle, I've just been using a subcategory of the generic annotations, shouldn't I?

"Do you also have the family where you nest this generic annotation in?" I'm afraid I can't send that, that's all a bit too private I think. It might be worth mentioning there's 24 of these specific nested annotations.

[Avaris.]

Well, the text color isn't controlled by the line style properties, if that is what you mean.

There is no possibility to link the color of the text to a parameter. But if you only have two colors, you could copy the label in a different color and control it with a visibility parameter.

[Anonymous]

Not being able to change the colour I actually can't change the visibility of the annotations either...

If that is fixed it will be fine.

[Avaris.]

Create a new instance parameter called visibility into your family.

Then link that to the visibility of your label by clicking the little box next to it.

[Anonymous]

I already have something like that implemented.

But I'd like it to be view dependent. There's several different annotation families I'd like to be visible from one view to another.

[Avaris.]

Well, then it is much easier to just use the V/Gdialog. And uncheck certain generic annotations.

[Anonymous]

"And uncheck certain generic annotations."

The issue is that isn't doing anything. 😉

Revit recognizes that these subcategories exist, the problem is that when I set the annotation that (I think) I connected to these subcategories to invisible in the view template they still remain visible.

[Avaris.]

Well, it can be anything up to this point. Do you want to share your project? You can also send it to me privately. I'm afraid I can't solve this problem via this forum only.

[MeganHanson_BIM]

Hello, was this issue ever resolved?  I am, looking for a solution to this exact problem.  Please share any updates if you were able to eventually controll the visibility, varying from view to view, of this nested generic annotation family.

[f.knapczyk]

Hey... was this solved? I have same issue.

- created a generic annotation ane a new subcategory for this text

- loaded to another family, where it is placed

- loaded this family to my project

- in project on the plan view I can see the family and annotation with it

- in V/G I can find under Annotation tab my Generic Annotation subcategory (that I have created)

- when I uncheck the subcategory - nothing happens

- when I uncheck whole Generic Anntotation category - all annotations disappear

any solutions? how to make my implemented generic annotation disappear?