Room Labels Disappearing


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I just started working with X15. Anyone else have an issue where all the room labels on a floor level get turned off? I have been working on a plan and when I take the file home to work, I lose the room labels. The first time I thought maybe I had not labeled them. As I was going through turning them back on, I realized the room definitions were retained but all the "show room label" boxes were unchecked. It has happened multiple times on the same plan now. It seems to be happening only when opening the file on a different computer (home, work, laptop). Any help would be appreciated.

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It happened again while working on the same plan. This time while working on the second floor, the labels on the first floor and basement were removed. I removed a wall on the second floor that defined a room and then I noticed the room labels were missing on the floors below. Is there a hotkey or something that I am accidentally turning off the room lables? I would think it would turn them all off not just certain floors.

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Hey @KilianDraftingAre you accidentally changing between layer (annotation) sets?  The folks I work for often have issues with their designers accidentally changing an annotation set (mine are custom sets btw - so they will look different than out of the box).

These sets can be changed by hovering your mouse over the drop down (not clicking) and scrolling with your mouse scroll which is typically how their designers accidentally change the view on their screen - causing chaos! ha ha.
 


 
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Good thought Adam, but not my issue. I made sure to switch between default (anno) sets as well as turn on all layers to see if that was causing the issue.

I was able to cycle through the undo button to get them back, but then I lose the work I've already done. (If I catch it within a reasonable amount of time.) It's easier to just multi-select rooms to check the box when I'm finished for the day. 

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At this time, we have no reports of problems with room labels getting turned off automatically.  If you can reproduce a case where this happens, then please report this to our technical support team.  If we can reproduce this problem in-house, then we will try to get a fix into the next available update.

 

More info about reporting problems can be found here:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/

 

On a side note, it seems that if you can use "undo" to bring them back, then in theory it should be easier to figure out what change caused them to disappear.  Figuring out the exact steps that can cause this to happen would be very helpful to include with your bug report.

 

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10 hours ago, Dermot said:

On a side note, it seems that if you can use "undo" to bring them back, then in theory it should be easier to figure out what change caused them to disappear.  Figuring out the exact steps that can cause this to happen would be very helpful to include with your bug report.

 

I had thought this as well, but I still am unable to reproduce the results that leads to them disappearing. Once I can, then I will send in a bug report.

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On 7/10/2023 at 8:43 AM, KilianDrafting said:

Anyone else have an issue where all the room labels on a floor level get turned off?

 

Yes! Multiple times for me. I haven't been able to consistently reproduce anything either though...

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On 7/10/2023 at 5:43 AM, KilianDrafting said:

Anyone else have an issue where all the room labels on a floor level get turned off?

 

As of today I am now a witness to this rare beast.  Very weird!

 

I also described it in another forum post today.  Sounds exactly like what you described above.  It's as if I selected and deleted all the room labels en masse, but I did not do that best to my knowledge.

 

This has happened multiple times on a project I'm working on today.

 

Jim

 

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This exact problem has been happening to me as well. It's the same as everyone else is describing. While working on a multi-floor plan, the room labels on one floor will be randomly turned off. I then have to manually turn them all back on again. Very annoying. It has been happening to me for months (on x15). It is random, so I haven't been able to reproduce it.

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I had this happen to me again on a completely new plan started in X15. I thought maybe the issue was when pulling in a plan started in an earlier version, but it just happened after several new x15 plans had no issue. So much for that theory! I still have not been able to reproduce the steps that cause the labels to disappear. At least I'm not alone.

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Anyone with this room label issue have any bay or bow windows in their plans. I just realized both of the plans I have this problem with, have bay windows. Not sure if it has anything to do with it, just trying to come up with some correlation so I can send a bug report.

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Does this happen when you change room types - specifically an Unspecified room type?

Just a wild guess, but have you played around with Preferences>Architectural>Rooms>Enable Show Room Label Automatic Behavior When Changing Room Types?

This is a setting that can control the display of room names under certain conditions.

But the problems described above in the various posts are not 100% consistent with this setting.

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But Help states that "When this box is checked, the room label’s display will be enabled when the Room Type is changed from “Unspecified”.", but the common theme is that room names that were previously set and visible seemingly magically all get Show Room Label unchecked for no good reason.

Fingers crossed it hasnt' happened to me yet, it seems rather pervasive.

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