Preventing nested generic annotations from halftoning along with family category

[Sahay_R]

I’ve got specialty equipment families with nested generic annotation labels. When I halftone the category, the annotations also get halftoned. Any way to keep the annotations black besides half toning the linework in each family? 

[hmunsell]

is there a reason your have the Label nested in the family vs using a Tag?

[Sahay_R]

Good question - mainly for speed of placing family instances. When you have 100+ Instances of the same family - tagging may be a bit of a drag. 

[syman2000]

Your only alternative is to set the specialty equipment and the subcategory as gray line. That way the generic annotation within the specialty won't be effected.

[barthbradley]

Hey Rina!  Just a shout out to say Happy Holidaze! 

[Sahay_R]

I had a feeling - just what I didn’t want to do.... thank you @syman2000 !

[Sahay_R]

@barthbradley ! Long time eh? Right back at ya!! 

[FAIR59]

There might be a solution.

Place the annotation in a shared nested 3D family of category other then speciality equipment.

Caveats:

• you can only halftone by category.   
• you can't halftone the category of the shared nested family, as it will now include the annotation.