Set Uniform Text Style
Text Style Panels in the ARCHICAD Interface
The Text Style panel is available in the following Tool Settings dialog boxes:
•Section, Elevation, Interior Elevation (Marker Text Style, Story Levels Text Style)
•Detail, Worksheet, Change (Marker Text Style)
•Label
•Drawing (Title Text Style)
•Door/Window (Marker Text Style)
•Zone (Stamp Text Style)
•Grid
Font: Choose a font.
Encoding (Windows only): Choose a regional font encoding.
Font Size: Enter the font height, in mm (metric units) or points (imperial units).
•The unit depends on the Length Unit defined in Options > Project Preferences > Working Units.
•The number of decimals depends on the setting under “Numbers without Units”, also at Options > Project Preferences > Working Units.
Text Pen: Choose a pencolor with the numeric field or the pop-up control.
Font Style: Select font style(s) (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough).
Alignment: Choose an alignment option (left, center, right, or justify).
Leading: This control modifies the leading value (vertical line spacing), as a percentage. Enter a number or use the up-and-down arrows to change the value in increments of 25 percent.
Width: Modify the text character width by entering a percentage value.
Spacing: Modify the spacing between text characters.
Override Text Style
Format settings in the Text Style Panel are uniformly applied to all text in the relevant Marker or textual item.
However, in most of these Settings dialog boxes, you can override particular Text Style settings for specific items.
Override Text Style
Text Style Controls in Grey
Some controls of the Text Style panel may not be relevant for a particular text item. These will be shown in grey. For example, the Leading and Alignment controls for this Drawing Title:
Irrelevant Text Style Controls in Grey
Controls might also be grey if you have overridden them, as with the font style, pen and size in this Section Marker text:
Note on Font Encoding in ARCHICAD
Text elements in ARCHICAD are unicode-based. All encoding systems are supported when you print, plot, edit or display text items, or convert them to DXF/DWG format.
For each language version of ARCHICAD, the default font encoding system is generally the right one.