I am having an issue where symbology overrides and annotation scale is not impacting my sheet file (default, drawing and sheet models) the way it should. It seems to be emulating the situation described by the user who posted to Bentley Communities in "ORD Contour Line Scaling" about 3 years ago.

First, I switch annotation scale in my drawing model and my existing contours (in own file) and proposed contours (separate file) do not change. I did try the fix described in this Communities post by manually overriding the feat def and symbology of the referenced terrains. It worked for my proposed terrain, but completely took away the labels on the existing terrain, as described in the post.

I also was unable to use symbology overrides successfuly in my sheet file to change the weight of my contours. Overrides are working for color and linestyle, but not weight. So I do know how to use the view flags from the parent file. Again, going into the sheeted file and overriding the feat def in the properties box, not symb overrides.

I am getting very frustrated with ORD plan production process. It seems to be tenfold as difficult as the old method of simply referencing a titleblock in coordinate space. We have advocated to our users on Bentley's behalf and truly want these tools to work. But it seems to make things overly complicated when files are live nested from the default model to the drawing model to the sheet model. There are too many places to adjust settings, costing valuable time. Please advise.