In one of our projects we had some ‘owner furnished contractor installed’ (OFCI) equipments. We didn't want to show these elements in our contract drawings, but also wanted the ability to show them for client meetings, etc. The building is more than 10 floors, and there were 100s of such equipments strewn around.
The best way to achieve this would be to create a separate workset for these equipments, and when you switch off the workset (File menu > Worksets) these elements, along with their tags, get turned off.
The problem is our project was not setup this way. Even though we placed all the objects in a new workset, the tags didn't get turned off, because they were not really tags but dumb texts!! Text objects belong to the view workset and so, could not be placed in the newly created workset.
So, we were looking for a workaround. One solution was to create a new text style with almost white color (254, 254, 254) and no leader.
We assigned all the texts related to these OFCI equipment to this text style to switch them off! We have to just redefine the text style to make them visible again.
It still would have been better if we were aware of this requirement while setting up the project!
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