Revit appliance families' text labels showing out of scale in site plan

[micah]

Revit appliance families' text labels are showing out of scale in our site plan. We have tried removing the label by entering a blank space instead of a "W" for the washer, as an example. This causes a "?" to appear in the label. So there is no way to simply make the label disappear. How do we manage this in our site plan? Note that the buildings in our site plan are Revit links. Thank you in advance for your help.

[mhiserZFHXS]

Hide the family category in the visibility settings/view template. I'm assuming its specialty equipment.

[barthbradley]

Looks to me like the Line Weight is jacked up in the View.  Have you checked VGOs?  

[micah]

Thank you @mhiserZFHXS. However we would like at times to have the specialty equipment on, but we do not want the associated text label to appear on our site plan. In this case we are ok with the specially equipment off, so your solution works here. That being said, we do have occasional instances where we want to see the specialty equipment but not its label. How do we address this?

[mhiserZFHXS · Accepted solution]

You'll have to go into the family and change the subcategories of the various elements. For example, change the subcategory of the label in the family to "Annotation"  or "Label" or something like that. Then you can control that independently in the visibility settings. So in something like a site plan you can still have the general Specialty Equipment category visible, and just turn off that subcategory.

[micah]

Our line weights are per office standards, and are normally fine. seems to us that the issue to us the scale of the label is not the same scale of the appliance (specialty equipment). Also we would like to be able to manage the label visibility independently of the linework visibility sometimes. 

[mhiserZFHXS]

Hm, I hadn't realized you can't apply subcategories to text. That's silly. You can choose what detail level its visible at though, and it looks like it is set to off when detail is set to coarse by default, so set your site plan to course detail and that should fix it.