Avoid Annotating Reference Objects

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I am trying to annotate beams in my active model, but the annotation rule is also capturing the beams in a referenced model too, I do not want to annotate these.

I tried making a Selection Criteria, which is Family & Part = Steel Beams, Mode = Master Only, which works in the selection dialog, and I load that in the Annotation Rules Criteria. But when generating the drawing view it ignores that, and still annotates all the beams anyway.

Can anyone help me? Is there a better way to essentially switch off annotation for referenced models? This must be a pretty common requirement.

General Element Selection operation seems to normally ignore reference objects, why does it not follow that principle for annotations?

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  • Oh ok, due to Aecosim's usual clunky unhelpful behaviour it seems to.....half work! After browsing for the .rsc file, I actually had to open the Edit Rule pop up, and close it again before the Named Criteria would appear in the drop down.

    Pretty typical of my experience, constantly having to close and open things to get them to take effect. Cant wait to go back to Revit.

    So now it says in the Rules Panel that the Criteria is being applied, however, I generate the drawing view and the annotations of the reference model ARE STILL THERE...

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  • Hi Bruce,

    Assuming that you are using Callouts to create your plans, the annotation will be generated in the drawing model so exists in that model. All the annotations of the same type will be on the same level in that model, that they came from a reference file cannot be distinguished at this point.

    There is the manual option of selecting any unwanted annotation and hiding it, but I wouldn't recommend that for use other than for exceptions where manual review would be needed anyway.

    I suspect there is a way to achieve this automatically but can't see it yet.

    You could apply a display rule that would use the Phase property to resymbolise the existing structure:

    Regards

    Marc