NCS Wall Label 25 (AC USA), problems with text orientation

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

NCS Wall Label 25 is having problems with orientation, and ignoring ‘Always readable’. The problem remains on mirrored walls, and ‘Flip Label’ doesn't change this. The only sort of workaround I found was inverting the wall reference line direction. Is this a bug? Is there a simple way of fixing it on the script?

[Also, label doesn't really work with mirroring at all.]

NCS Wall Label 25 issues

[Minh Nguyen]

Hi Ignacio,

Thank you very much for the question!

After some tests, I believe this is not a bug, but just a limitation of the label. The same thing happens way back in Archicad 22.

What happened here is that the label orientation always follow the wall's direction. If you enable Wall & Beam Reference Line, you can see that the label follow the direction from left to right

When we mirror a wall, the direction also changes, thus the label is flipped.

To control the label orientation exactly, I suggest looking for this option in the Label Settings

I hope this helps you with the problem. Please let me know if you have any further questions!
Best regards,

Minh

[Rene Pahlavan]

Hi Minh--

Why can't the always readable function just be made to work in this important label? The above solution looks very bad on slanted walls. 

[Rene Pahlavan]

Looks like the same problem has persisted into AC26 - W-03 really looks strange upside down (see image). 

 

[g r a n t]

Agree. I can't get my head around these wall labels. It should be simple. Moreover, I can't even find the 26 version in my label list....??? G

[Rene Pahlavan]

Me too - same age 🙂