From what I can tell, plan and profile annotation groups are set in the base geometry file's feature symbology settings. My problem is, I have other exhibits that use the same alignment but I want to use a different annotation group for the plan and profile. Is there a way to use a different annotation group in an exhibit file when referencing in my base geometry file?
How do you show different annotation groups though? From my understanding this is set by the feature definition of the geometry. Also, this requires that all profiles have to be created in the master geometry file which I would prefer if some people were not allowed access to those files.
You do not need multiple copies of the profile - what I meant bu 'ProfA' and 'ProgfB' was two different drawings, but using the same active profile.
I voted up on this and added a comment.
As I was, I thought of a possible workaround.
In V7 and V8, we had some offices that used different RSC files for certain linestyles. In the workspace, you would identify the office/discipline and the CFG variables would redirect these RSC files to an alternate location. As long as the line style names were the same, it would display them correctly for each office. So, what if you had duplicate names in different DGNLIBS? When a person from one office used the tools, they would get one display and when someone from another uses the tools, they get a different display?
Also, if the only solution is a copied alignment, could an alignment be created that was ruled as parallel to the original with zero offset and then it would automatically update if the original was modified?
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Not that I consider this a solution, but we're including all of the alternatives in a single annotation group. The various alternatives are placed on different levels, so are selected by turning the appropriate levels on or off. For instance our most common plan sheet scale is 1"=100' and a very common detail scale is 1"=10'. Our annotation group places one set of annotations on the inch100 level(s) and another set on the inch10 level(s). It's kind of a crude workaround but it gets the job done.
Added to Ideas forum as this is something we really need for better productivity:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/i/openroads_conceptstation/ability-to-override-annotation-group-for-specific-elements-in-master-reference-files
Regards,
Mark
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