Appliance annotations show up on roof plan

[steve.70285]

I've assigned a 3/32" nested label to some of my appliances. When I load them into my project the label looks great but it also shows up on the roof plan.

Has this happened to anyone?

[Tom Dorner]

When you created the annotation, it was probably created with a "generic annotation" template. If you want to control the visability of the annotation with the appliances, you need to go back into the annotation family and switch the category of the annotation to match the appliance category. Go to "settings" "family categories and parameters" to change the category.

You then need to re-load the annotation family into the appliance family.

Then re-load the appliance family into your project.

All should be well when this is done.

Hope this helps,

Tom

[beegee]

There have been problems with labels in some factory families in previous releases.
The problem was with bad label links and upgrade of content.
This presumably wouldn't apply to your family though, and I only mention it as background.

[steve.70285]

Thanks Tom, that all makes sense but...

I've change the category of the annotation to Specialty Equip Tag. When loading the new Specialty Equip. tag into the dryer family this is the error message I get. And sorry but its not the roof plan the labels show up on, its the site plan. I can easily turn of the object visibility but it doesn't leave me with confidence in controlling the visibility of labels.

Thanks beegee, I am working with existing revit families and seems to me I ran into the same issue with a furnace or waterheater a while back with the annotation that was nested within it.

[Tom Dorner]

hmmmm....... I just tried it and got the same error. I was creating 2D families all day today this way and it worked fine with 2D.

How in love with a 3D dryer are you? Will a 2D version work? It can be tagged and scheduled in 2D just fine.

Anyone else come across this?

The reason I was doing 2D families all day, is that we are realizing that unless we are going to render it, a lot of things will work fine in 2D and lower the overhead in a Revit file.

Tom

[Tom Dorner]

Steve,

A work around I just tried would be to switch the annotation back to generic.

Then create an object style under "generic annotations" with a name like "specialty equip anno"

Save and re-load the anno into your family, then family into project.

Now with VG you will see a new category under "general annotations" called what you named it in the anno family. You can now turn off the anno in the view.

Not as clean as I would like it, so if someone else knows a better way chime in.

Tom

[BomberAIA]

I have the same problem. I just turn off the equipment.

[steve.70285]

Well I guess I'm back to turning the equipment on and off. It's not important to have it figured out...just thought I was doing something wrong.

Thanks for the work around Tom, I'll use it if this starts showing up in sections where I'd like to keep the 3-D appearance

Thanks again guy's.

[bclarch]

I had a similar problem with an older release. See this post. (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=1122&highlight=oven) Unfortunately the project that this was happening in was cancelled by the client so I didn't follow up more closely with support to get this problem resolved. I am a little disappointed to see it reappear since I would have expected it to have been resolved by now. (My post was from last September.) I would encourage you to send the file to support and see if they can finally solve this problem.