We value your input!
Please participate in Archicad 28 Home Screen and Tooltips/Quick Tutorials survey

Libraries & objects
About Archicad and BIMcloud libraries, their management and migration, objects and other library parts, etc.

Editable text after object is placed?

JGoode
Expert
I would guess not, but is it possible to make a 2D object that has the ability to have editable text after the object is placed down? Kind of like dynamic hotspots I suppose.
ArchiCAD 23

Windows 10
4 REPLIES 4
If You wish for the prompt for text then no...but still You can edit object parameters...

Piotr
Barry Kelly
Moderator
You can add hotspots to move and rotate the text but as Piotr said you have to edit the text value in the parameters of the object.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
vfrontiers
Advocate
If you are only looking for one string of text, you can use the ELEMENT ID...

I've done that on a bunch of objects...

Whatever you type in the ID can be displayed in the object...
Duane

Visual Frontiers

AC25 :|: AC26 :|: AC27
:|: Enscape3.4:|:TwinMotion

DellXPS 4.7ghz i7:|: 8gb GPU 1070ti / Alienware M18 Laptop
I did not write about the ID field...(I used it as well) because it is not a good BIM solution especially if IFC export will take place afterwords and the object is not a plain text object but a BIM element.

Best Regards,
Piotr