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Window markers misbehaving

Anonymous
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Greetings,
I have been trying without success to get a consistent window marker appearance in elevation. Ideally, each hexagon (see attached jpeg of the model) would have an opaque fill, with a number centered in it, and reading horizontally. That looks OK in model.
When I go to the layout, however, the numbers have rotated against my intention, and my work-around opaque fill rectangle has migrated on top of well, everything (see the next jpeg).
This strikes me as weird, and it certainly is inconvenient.
Does anyone have a solution for this? Or perhaps I should go about labelling the windows in elevation in a different way?
Currently, I have checked the "Label Window" checkbox in the Selecion Settings diaglog box, and then selecting the "Label Window-Marker SE9" label with some modifications.
Thanks in advance,
John

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Anonymous
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And now, the layout view. Thanks.
TomWaltz
Participant
I would guess that's a bug. You should try reporting it to your local reseller so they can pass it on to Graphisoft.
Tom Waltz
Anonymous
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Hmm, yes, buggy.
But unique to me? That would be a first!
Maybe I would qualify for a gold foil star sticker.
Is there a better way to get solid, consistent elevation markers for the windows?
Anonymous
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Is "Label Marker SE9" from an AC9 Library, and you're working in 10 (as your signature would suggest)? Could this be where the conflict lies?
Anonymous
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Yes, exactly. The marker is a holdover from our earlier refinement of the label.
That would be a good source of an incompatibility, but the exact same thing happens when I use the Label Window-Marker 10. Sme thing with the rotated text, same thing with the position-skipping of my digital white-out. Further, the rotation of the text is entirely random: at one refresh, it will look right, at the next, it will be rotated.