topic North!!!! in Documentation

North!!!!

cmb — Wed, 10 May 2023 09:11:55 GMT

Can anyone explain how to make building elevation tags/names match the north setting in location settings?

I have north set to 23 degrees and the elevation on the plan's right side looking at that side is labelled "East".

Re: North!!!!

Barry Kelly — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:45:48 GMT

It is probably just written as "East" in the elevation settings (name/ID).

I am not sure if there is a way to get the direction automatically.

I think you can with internal elevations but not with external elevations (I may be wrong about that).

Barry.

Re: North!!!!

cmb — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:51:02 GMT

I just figured out that you need to rename the elevation using a proxy name, because archicad doesn't allow you to change an elevation name to an existing elevation name. So, changing East to North1 instead of North works. After going around with proxies, you can then shorten them to just North, etc.

Re: North!!!!

Lingwisyer — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:34:57 GMT

Just work backwards, so following your "North1", you can name rename "South" to "East", etc.. That way you only have a single proxy.

Re: North!!!!

cmb — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:38:20 GMT

I’d say having to do this manually is a flaw/ oversight. Seems like it should be linked to project north, with the option to override it.

Re: North!!!!

Lingwisyer — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:33:00 GMT

Yeah, you would think that it would be an Autotext option...