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Can I have a text value in text favorites?

LeeJaeYoung
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Can I have a text value in text favorites?
Is it just how to make it in Label?

AC27 on window 11
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Text favourites do not store the actual text values, just the text format - size, colour, font, layer, etc.

Favourites for autotext labels do contain the text values as well.

 

If you want standard notes, have them all laid out in another file and copy & paste to your current job.

Or set up a lot of label favourites.

 

Barry.

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What do you mean by text value? I have loads of favourites with predefined text for items we commonly label such as wall ties, concrete cavity fill. We have lots of pre-defined description notes that are common across lots of projects. 

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 27UKI Apple Silicon 27.1.1
macOS Sonoma (14.2)

You can create favorites with text values in the label's favorites.
It was asked if there is a favorite character with contents such as comments in Text.

AC27 on window 11
Solution

Text favourites do not store the actual text values, just the text format - size, colour, font, layer, etc.

Favourites for autotext labels do contain the text values as well.

 

If you want standard notes, have them all laid out in another file and copy & paste to your current job.

Or set up a lot of label favourites.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

thank you so much

AC27 on window 11

We’ve got loads of text favourites set up for standard notes that retain the text content. 

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 27UKI Apple Silicon 27.1.1
macOS Sonoma (14.2)

@Lee Hankins wrote:

We’ve got loads of text favourites set up for standard notes that retain the text content. 


As a label or an object maybe?

But the text tool does not remember the actual text that is typed, so the favourite can't either.

If I am mistaken about this, I am happy to be educated as to how you do it.

 

Barry.

 

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Hi Barry,

 

They are definitely labels.

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Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 27UKI Apple Silicon 27.1.1
macOS Sonoma (14.2)