Current Behavior When a view is split using "Duplicate as a Dependent View," the parent and its dependent views currently share only model geometry. All annotations — dimensions, spot elevations, tags, and detail lines — are completely independent between the parent and each dependent view. This makes the parent-child relationship functionally similar to a simple "Duplicate," with the only practical difference being that dependents allow separate crop regions of the same view. Problem In real-world documentation workflows, teams frequently need to split one large floor plan across multiple sheets (for example, dividing a large building plan into left/right or quadrant sections). In these cases, there are typically: Core annotations that should appear consistently across the entire plan (main dimension strings, spot elevations, gridline callouts, key structural tags) Section-specific annotations that only apply to a particular portion of the plan (local detail callouts, finish notes, furniture tags) Currently, there is no way to place a "core" annotation once and have it automatically appear across all dependent views. Every dependent must be annotated manually and separately, and any revision to a shared annotation must be repeated by hand in every dependent view. This is time-consuming and creates a high risk of inconsistency between dependent views of the same building. Suggested Improvement Introduce a one-way, parent-to-child annotation inheritance for dependent views: Annotations placed in the parent view would automatically appear in all dependent views (within their respective crop regions). Annotations placed in a dependent view would remain local to that dependent only and would not propagate back to the parent or to sibling dependents. This one-directional relationship would preserve the logical hierarchy of "parent" and "child," giving the relationship real functional meaning beyond crop regions alone, while still allowing each dependent to carry its own unique, localized annotations. This behavior would mirror how revision clouds currently behave (shared across parent/dependents), but scoped specifically to one direction — from parent down to children — for standard annotation types like dimensions, spot elevations, and tags.
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