Originally Posted by
irwin
Case 2. There are several versions of the model, and you want to annotate each one. For example, suppose you are considering between option A and option B for part of the model, and you want to annotate each one. In that case, create two views. Set one of them to always show option A and the other to always show option B. Annotate each option in its corresponding view. The Make Primary operation will have no effect on these views and annotations since each view will still show the same option it showed before, regardless of which is primary.
From your description, it sounds like you were looking for case 1 or case 2, but ran into case 3.