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OVERRIDE Door/Window Marker orientation??

Stress Co_
Advisor
I've got a saved floor plan view, that has been rotated with "Set Orientation".
The rotation of the view causes the door & window markers to read "upside-down" (from the side anyway). Is there a setting to override the text's orientation? Looked and have not found.

Manual sez of marker settings:
"•Standard: Text is always parallel to the wall, and is automatically readable (that is, flipped if necessary after rotation of the view)."

The marker I'm using is:
"Builder Dimension Pro V1"

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Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
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Daniel Kovacs
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Hello,

The 'Builder Dimension 21' marker is a very simplified marker type, that is only designed to write out the sizes either across or parallel to the opening, with a fixed text orientation (so it doesn't have the "always readable" capability).

I would suggest you to use the 'Builder Dimension Label 21' Label instead of this obsolete Marker. This Label has more flexibility, and can also change it's direction based on the Orientation.

Regards,
Daniel Alexander Kovacs

Professional Services Consultant

GRAPHISOFT



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Stress Co_
Advisor
Thank you Daniel.
I'll give it a try.
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
Anonymous
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I would suggest you to use the 'Builder Dimension Label 21' Label instead of this obsolete Marker. This Label has more flexibility, and can also change it's direction based on the Orientation.
The BDL 21 doesn't have the option for 3050 instead of 3'-0" X 5'-0", Does it?
poco2013
Mentor
Nope

But you might try an expression as in:

TEXTJOIN ( "", TRUE, STR ( ROUNDDOWN ( {Property:General Parameters/Width} / 1 in / 12, 0 ), 0 ), "0", STR ( ROUNDDOWN ( {Property:General Parameters/Height} / 1 in / 12, 0 ), 0 ), "0" )
TEXTJOIN ( "", TRUE, STR ( ROUNDDOWN ( {Property:General Parameters/Width} / 1 in / 12, 0 ), 0 ), "0", STR ( ROUNDDOWN ( {Property:General Parameters/Height} / 1 in / 12, 0 ), 0 ), "0" )

The above only works for whole width & height dims. fractional number feet would require couple more intermediate expressions which I'll leave to someone else?
Gerry

Windows 11 - Visual Studio 2022; ArchiCAD 27
Stress Co_
Advisor
calebg wrote:
I would suggest you to use the 'Builder Dimension Label 21' Label instead of this obsolete Marker. This Label has more flexibility, and can also change it's direction based on the Orientation.
The BDL 21 doesn't have the option for 3050 instead of 3'-0" X 5'-0", Does it?
It does. Style 4
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)