JordanWeed Posted Tuesday at 05:45 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:45 PM Hello Chief Users! I'm a kitchen designer making the plunge from 2020 to Chief. Learning a lot, but I'm stuck on one issue. My cabinet labels are being cut off by adjacent walls. I'm on the Kitchen and Bath Plan View and made a bunch of various default edits. My base cabinet label is being hidden by the wall cabinet above. I've tried changing the layer of the cabinet label, but this does not fix it being hidden. I've found out how to fix the entire object; I can change the its drawing group to be ahead -- but I want only the label itself to change drawing groups. There is no option to change just the label to a different drawing group. Any advice? TYIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKEdmo Posted Tuesday at 07:18 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:18 PM 1 hour ago, JordanWeed said: Hello Chief Users! I'm a kitchen designer making the plunge from 2020 to Chief. Learning a lot, but I'm stuck on one issue. My cabinet labels are being cut off by adjacent walls. I'm on the Kitchen and Bath Plan View and made a bunch of various default edits. My base cabinet label is being hidden by the wall cabinet above. I've tried changing the layer of the cabinet label, but this does not fix it being hidden. I've found out how to fix the entire object; I can change the its drawing group to be ahead -- but I want only the label itself to change drawing groups. There is no option to change just the label to a different drawing group. Any advice? TYIA. One option -- you can manually reposition the label. Just grab its little handle (red dot) and place where it has no conflict: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted Tuesday at 08:06 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:06 PM You might want to submit a feature request for this. Chief always says that they don't look for feature requests on the Q&A forum so basically they won't amount to anything. You can submit one by posting here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/ For now, you can either move the cabinet (or wall) to a different drawing group or you can move the label position/angle. You can move/rotate labels manually by grabbing the handle or you can move them in the cabinet dialog if you know the exact settings you want. If you setup your cabinet defaults the way you want them, then you might have less manual moving things around later. Label default settings are not "dynamic" like a lot of the other cabinet settings, so if you set them up before you place your cabinets, you won't have to change them all later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago There's another option that can work quite well but that can be tedious to initially set up. That is, use your Reference Display. Here are the basic: Decide which objects need their labels moved forward. Create a new Layer Set that has only those objects and their labels turned on, and set the line style for all those objects to the Invisible line style. Use the Reference Display settings for your current Plan View to add a new Reference Display to the TOP of the stack using that new Layer Set. Set it to use the same floor you are already trying to display, and make sure both Details and XOR are toggled OFF. This will place all your desired labels in the top drawing group without displaying any additional lines or fills for the related objects. Here's a quick example where I have a header label obscured by joists above. In this case, I couldn't relocate the label because I want to leave automatic framing turned on, and even if I could have, the direction of the joists above would still be obscuring it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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