how to rotate all labels to be horizontal

[Anonymous]

Hi there I am new to advance steel. I have generated some views and all my parts are labeled but i want to make all the labels horizontal. Currently there are some that are horizontal and some that are in other angles. 

Is there a setting that can change all labeling to be horizontal?

Thanks in advance.

[johnjmbennett]

The labelling rules inside the drawing style control the position and orientation,

Annotation or label strategies.

There are many parameters to set the position and alignment , they do not always give you what is required. The control is linked to the object presentation line in the drawing style.

You can alter them by grip selection and rotate if already placed.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply John.

I know that you can change the orientation after the labeling has been placed but to do that would be very tedious work. Where on the labeling strategies would i change to get all my labels to show up horizontal? or would i have to do this for every single part? 

see attached photo.

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[muleman1]

Unfortunately, we have found in order to change the labels presentation you will have to make many, many, many changes in many, many, many places and there are no instructions to help. It is possible, but it is such a nightmare-ish,  painstaking, extremely arduous task, taking hours and hours and hours of your time and you still can't get it to work to suit you. We just accept it as is and move on. 

[johnjmbennett]

this is the online help pages to label Strategies, if you review this you will see how the are intended to work. The basic two concepts are "By angle Method" and "By Area" Angle type is based upon rotation. Area is based upon position , top bottom left right Distance controls the proximity of the label to the body/element being labelled. The type of label is controlled relative to the model object defined in the drawing style line, this can be genralised one like Beams, or a more specific element type based around a model role within that element type Element Beam, model role Column, as an example. similarly model objects can be used to group a series of model roles into one collective group to apply a common label type too, example columns can have several model roles column, corner column, door posts. both methods do have lot of options, but look for one by angle, i know we use one fro plan and set it to be at 45 degrees for columns. so i would guess you need to create one for 0 degrees, There is a tick box option to align with section/beam also "along beam" online help. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/advance-steel/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU... i am not sure you will fine the full solution, but we do manage to achieve some reasonable success with out labels. its not perfect by any means, but you can achieve something, i imagine this is a very difficult area to control via programming.

[mo]

1. Mark all labels you want to rotate by dragging a cursor along a group of lables or pick a single label.

2. As they are marked press SHIFT and pick every single box responsible for rotation of a label. Its colour will change to red in my case.

3. When you picked all your desired boxes just make rotation. All red boxed labels will rotate. 

This method if much faster then rotating every single label. 

I know this is stupid, but we have to handle with a software, which is not perfect and considering what happens for a couple of years it will never be.