Window Label Issue

[Chris Grantham]

I am trying to use labels to tag my windows rather then than the marker option that is available within the window settings. I am doing this because I can't seem to get marker to show up as a hexagon, and it seems to work nicely for tagging in elevations. I have one particurley pesky label that does not want to rotate to be in line with the other tags. Whenever I try to rotate the label to match the others it defaults to being upside down or reading from the right as I have shown in the two images. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

-Chris

[Chris Grantham]

Picture #2

[Stress Co_]

Try this:

Select the wall with the uspside-down marker.

From the menu select: Edit > Modify wall > Invert Direction

Sometimes labels care which "direction" the wall was created.


EDIT: Modify wall may not be in the Edit menu (maybe in Design). This worked back in AC 9.... I'm not so sure now, but give it a try. I'm not running AC on my laptop and can't check.

[Chris Grantham]

Still doing the same thing...

[Erika Epstein]

Try using the AC11 window marker. This will allow give you all the options you want to create what you show.

[Chris Grantham]

Thanks Erica,
Will I still have to use labels instead on the elevations? I am not sure that there is any way to use the markers to tag windows in Elevation.

-Chris

[Chris Grantham]

It would seem the window markers are even more infuriating then the window labels. All I want is to get all of the tags to sit like #37 around this bay window, in a horizontal fashion. Anyone know of any good work arounds?
Thanks!

-Chris

[Erika Epstein]

Open the s/e.
Select all window.
In the ID box check LABEL ELEMENTS.
Select the labels and change them to the window label.
If you do a search here on the forum, this has been discussed before.

[Chris Grantham]

In Elevation I am trying to use the label elements option, but continue to have the same problems with the tags! They seem to default to these odd angles and I cannot get them straight...

[Laszlo Nagy]

Chris wrote:
It would seem the window markers are even more infuriating then the window labels. All I want is to get all of the tags to sit like #37 around this bay window, in a horizontal fashion. Anyone know of any good work arounds?
Thanks!

-Chris

You will have to modify the Library Part used by the Marker or Label.
There is a GDL Global variable that returns the angle between the Wall of the Window and the horizontal direction. It is called WALL_DIRECTION:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/Global%20GDL%20Parameters#WALLDIRECTION

You will have to rotate the 2D of the GDL object to compensate for the inclination of the Wall the Window is placed into.
This is the theory, unfortunately I do not have time to test if it works.