View Filters for Annotation Conent

[KTANDERSON]

Question:
Can a View Filter be created to filter the displayed annotation content specifically tags? That way one view might be tagged differently for multiple revisions of a sheet and tags displayed are controlled by the View Template.

Context:
After we finish a design, we first submit the design to the engineer and city for approval. These drawings have duct/pipe sizing and equipment tags with information the engineers need for calculation. For scheduling reasons, we immediately proceed with a construction set of drawings for our field team with different tags with more specific information while waiting for the engineer's and city approval.

If and when the engineer and city want us to make changes, as they often do, we have a problem because the drawings we've been revising have too much information for the engineer and city when we resubmit them. We run into a similar situations when we proceed with shops for the fabricator and at the end of the job, As Builts for the client.

Our current work around is to preserve separate views with separate sheets but this can be manual heavy task especially when setting up views and sheets (Duplicating views, making dependants, etc.) Also, it limits our use of the Revision Manager.

Our team currently uses both Revit 2015 MEP and Revit 2017. The problem exists in both versions of Revit.

[digihumminbird]

This sounds like a contract issue, unfortunately. As a manager, the heartburn grows significantly at the thought of allowing the same sheet in a set of Construction Documents to be radically changed and printed with different content for different audiences between issuances, but it sounds like you're spanning a larger part of the lifecycle of design to construction than most designers of record, outside of CM@R or D/B projects. There isn't a neat way to do that in Revit with Annotations since they're little reporters of information, not the buckets that hold the information. I would recommend checking in on contract responsibilities first, then talking to the City. They might be okay with the added information.