About Propagating Annotation Element Display Status Through Data Sharing Features
You can select an Annotation Element and use the shortcut menu command Hide to place an Annotation Element on the Hidden Items layer, or use Unhide to remove an item from the Hidden Items layer. If the source Annotation Element is then propagated through a Data Sharing feature, the Hide or Unhide display status is propagated to the target model.
If, for example, the source Annotation Element is hidden and then propagated through a Data Sharing feature, the Annotation Element is automatically added to the Hidden Items layer in the target part. The Hide or Unhide display status is propagated only when you create the Data Sharing feature. Redefining or regenerating the source features does not impact the display status of the propagated Annotation Element.
Propagating Layers Through Merge Features
When you add an Annotation Element to a Merge feature in the following scenario:
• The source model contains an Annotation Element in a layer.
• The target model does not contain a layer with the same name.
then the layer name from the source model is propagated to the target model. The newly created layer in the target model contains the Annotation Element from the source model, and the Hide or Unhide display status of the layer is also propagated.
If the source model and the target model contain a layer with the same name, the layer display status may not propagate. Consider the following scenario:
• The source model contains Annotation Element AE_1 on hidden layer, LAYER_TEST.
• The target model also contains a layer, LAYER_TEST.
• AE_1 is propagated through a Data Sharing feature to the target model.
AE_1 in the Data Sharing feature is placed in the target model layer, LAYER_TEST. If there are no other items in LAYER_TEST of the target model, then the hidden display status of the layer is propagated from the source. However, if other items do exist on LAYER_TEST in the target model, the display status of LAYER_TEST in the target model does not change.
Propagating Layers Through Copy Geometry and Shrinkwrap Features
For Copy Geometry and Shrinkwrap features, layer assignments transfer only if a layer with the same name exists in the target model. The display status is always whatever the status is for that layer in the target model, regardless of the setting in the source model.
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If you are propagating a Data Sharing feature to an assembly, the Annotation Element display status is propagated at the model level only.
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