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archie456

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Hi,

I would appreciate your thoughts on this problem:

I create a generic annotation family of some lines.

One of the lines I want to make thick, red and dashed, so go to ‘Object Styles’ and create a new subcategory of Generic Annotations and change its Line Weight, Line Colour and Line Pattern to thick red and dashed.

I load this into my project and it displays how I want.

Sometime later I need to change this to a different colour and line weight.

When I change this in the family and load it again, it does not update the project, as the project ‘remembers’ its original Object Style settings. The only way I’ve found of changing the line style is to make the change to the Project Object settings themselves, not the family.

Is this correct? Is there no way of ‘forcing the update of the styles in the project when you load a family?

Cheers.

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TKennedy

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You are correct, when it comes to objects styles (and materials, and something else I'm blanking on at the moment) the project rules.

We are actually using this to our advantage in our family building process. In the family all the different object styles use bright primary colors that are easy to identify and work with. The project OS is set up to make everything black.

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archie456

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Thanks.

Thats an interesting way of doing things with the colours in families.

I might do somethign similar I've changed my project line weights to be slightly thinner, and now realise that I have do update all the family templates to match!

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TKennedy

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It may not be necessary for you to update all of your families. Update you project template (and any current projects) to include the object styles you have in your families, and get it all set up there. Now it doesn't matter what your families look like, it will be correct in the project.

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archie456

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OK, agreed.

The only reason I thought of updating the families was that one or two people have comments that its confusing when lines appear a certain thickess in the family editor and then look thinner in the project.

I suppose the alternative is to educate them as to why this happens...

Thanks for your advice.

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TKennedy

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If you want the families to be correct you certainly can change them, it just depends on if you want/can put the time and effort into doing so. If it's causing enough confusion in your office it might be worth it to make the changes.

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To change the annotation settings in family you can load the family into a project, set the annotation settings as desired, then open the family from within the project.  The family will open with the inherited project settings and you can now save and overwrite the family file.

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