Text Size on Floor callouts

[mukster]

Archicad 2026, MAC platform, looking at the elevations in the Layout book. Have to use a smaller scale to fit the drawing on the page, but this makes the text on the floor designators too small. Is there some way to make the text bigger?

[Barry Kelly]

Sounds like you text is set to "scale with Plan' and/or you are resizing the drawing once you place it on your layout.

This is what I do ...

You have your elevation view point in the Project Map.

You then save a view of this in the View Map.

You set the scale of that view to be what you want it to appear as on the layout.

Your text is set to 'Scale Independent'.

The text in your view is then set to the size you want it to print, adjust text position to suit the model view.

You now place that view on your layout (do not rescale/resize the drawing on the layout - it is already the scale you want it to be - it should be placed at 100%).

Barry.

[Gerry Leonor]

if i'm understanding correctly -- your drawing at a whatever scale, which will be 100% Magnification (as below):

however, at 100% Magnification, it is too big on the drawing & you'd like it to be at, say, 75-80% Magnification of it's original scale?

everything in that placed drawing will reduce in size, including text, which will make it unreadable.

There is a setting in the Text Tool that you can either make it Scale with Plan or Scale Independent.

• Scale in Plan - the size of the font is set to real-world sizes based on the floor plan scale. you'll see this number as 500mm or 250mm. the letters are actually 500 or 250mm in size when you use the Measure Tool in the model.
• Scale Independent - i believe this is what they call Point Sizing. this is why you'll see the Text sizes are 2.5 point or 3 point in size.

as with Barry's post above, i would not advise reducing the drawing Magnification just to fit into the drawing -- unless it's simply a perspective view where scale does not matter. you're going to have to reduce the drawing scale (ie. going from 1:100 to 1:200), while maintaining 100% magnification to fit the drawing in the page & make sure you're still maintaining the correct font size. we typically use the Scale Independent with 2.5pt font size the smallest we go.

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on the other hand -- are you talking about the Story Levels in the Section / Elevation?

because you can change them in the Section / Elevation settings. These font sizes use Point Sizing.

[Lingwisyer]

Your sections and elevations are using mm for text units... Point is just the standard typography unit, it does not actually have anything to do with scaling, GS NA appears to have just decided to play around with units in this case... Also, 2.5 point text, less than 1mm, is way to small for anyone... Not even cheap mass market thousand page paperbacks would use that font size... 10 to 12 point, ~3.5 to ~4mm, is pretty standard for readability of large amounts of text such as in a magazine, report or paper, though this may vary depending on the font chosen.

Ling.

[mukster]

I have no section/elevation settings. I have a section/elevation range, but I Can't edit it