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ripfast

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Hi,

I have searched but cannot find an answer.  I have a sprinkler head family with a generic model annotation symbol loaded into it.  The family looks fine when I insert it into my model but when I connect it to my 'SPRIINKLER SYSTEM' system it adopts the systems colour and lineweight.  As I want the pipe to print quite thick the annotation just becomes a blob.

 Is it possible to have the family override the lineweight/colour of the system it is connected to?

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dgcad

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If the view is using a 'filter' to color / control the system in the view (and you most likely are) try excluding the elements in question from the filter. 

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ripfast

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Hi and thanks for the suggestion

The lineweight of the system seems to override any other colour and lineweight options, so I ended up using the system to dictate the colour but removed the line weight override, I then setup the lineweights in the view, using halftone for other services makes it easy to work with and then using the setting 'print halftone as thin lines' in your plotting makes the other serives nice and thin while keeping ours nice and prominent on the page.

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