Detail marker orientation relative to project orientation.

[Anonymous]

I have a viewset where my project orientation has been changed to 270degrees. When I place a detail marker to begin with the text is relative to 0degrees still (the wrong way round). I can change the orientation of the detail marker manually by changing detail marker settings, however the marker (that shows on a print) then sits in a completely different place to the source marker (which doesn't show in a print), why? See attached.

Help! 😞

[David Maudlin]

Dan:

I was able to reproduce your bug by placing a detail marker (Built-in Detail Marker) and changing the Marker Rotation Angle in an Oriented View. But if I place the Marker, leave the Rotation Angle as is, then open the Marker's settings and go to Marker > Marker Geometry > Marker Text Rotation > and set it to Vertical, all is fine. What are the exact steps you took?

David

[Anonymous]

David,

I have figured out what my personal problem was, it was me! I have just been having a fiddle this afternoon and discovered I just didn't have the right combination of settings to get what I wanted. Having marker settings as per attached (and underlined in red) solved my issue.

The bug, if it is a bug, occurred after doing exactly as you did.

[Anonymous]

I am having the same problem in that I rotate the marker text to vertical which looks great in the plan layout. But when opening the detail callout it is still orientated to the original 0º, rather than the 270º rotated orientation. Is there any way to show the detail callout to the orientation of the rotated plan or is there only the slow manual workaround?

[Anonymous]

I don't thing GS is EVER going to sort this out - these markers drive us mad in rotated frames of reference. Or rather: rotated frames drive the markers mad! 🙂

As others have said - using the Built-in Detail Marker is generally best (it's hard to understand why the other nearly-identical choices exist!)

As craigj said - a detail clipping a plan with a local rotation will open it's detail window back at the global zero rotation - i.e. the detail clip is rotated at an angle within the frame of the detail window! This can be fixed with the correct view settings but the default seems flat wrong - rotated plans should open up details with the same rotated frame!

The rotational crazy runs deep deep deep. See the attached screen shots - a correctly-configured detail marker in plan, when viewed one level away by trace reference - takes on a random configuration!

Crazy.