I have made a line based family to use as a light symbol for an electrical lighting plan. To start, I actually made a light family which is comprised of a recessed box containing a track lighting system. But, this is ceiling based and to date does not appear on my electrical "floor plan". so, I made a line based family using symbolic lines which I can use to quickly draw the track lights on that plan. Now, I want to nest an annotation label that will allow me to parametrically choose the label length of the light. The problem I have is that the annotation rotates with the line based family when I draw it. How do I keep the generic annotation horizontal? For that matter, how can i make it so that I can select the label and move it around in the project to keep it readable and out of the way of other lines (similar to dragging dimension text away from extension lines)?
see attached....thanks.