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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?
Bruce,
Instead of applying the rules in a single drawing, you could try this alternative suggestion:
1. Create a separate drawing of the reference alone without any annotation rules.
2. Create a drawing of the active model without references, but with structural annotation rules.
3. Reference the drawing created in step 1. to the drawing created in Step 2.
Best Regards,
RJ.
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
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...
Even though i have saved the Criteria as 'Current Model Steel.rsc', it does not appear in the Criteria Name drop down list of the Rules Dialog. I browse for the file in the tab below, and then click Update, but no effect.
In the Buildings>Structural Panel of the View Attributes, the criteria of the rule is still displaying 'All'.
Well I'm applying a rule to the saved view to produce annotated (structural section name) steel beams when its referenced into the 2D drawing view.
The rule is capturing all the beams including the ones of a model reference of an existing building, which I don't want to annotate.
So I go to Element Selection dialog and create a Criteria Set, which is set to select items in the current file 'Master Only'. This works for just a general selection filter.
I then apply that Selection Criteria to the rule in the 'Based On' drop down in the rules dialog. But it seems to ignore it and still annotate items even in the referenced model.