BJRobinson Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Hi again. I am struggling with aligning my plant tags automatically. I have a plan that has over 30 species of plants set out in a cottage garden style. I have always had trouble aligning the plant tags as they almost always crossover and are spaced apart at a spacing that I don't want. So I am always tweaking them or just giving up and doing it manually. What am I missing? The current plan: First try at aligning is I am drawing my alignment line where the pink line is every time. This is the result. Nowhere near the line I drew. All bunched up and crossing lines. Second attempt: No better. This was a bit better. But still crossed lines and no where near where I drew my line. I could keep going with configurations, but a similar outcome. THANKS IN ADVANCE. Quote Link to comment
Nico_be Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Hello, I have the same problem, this tool is not perfect, the lines always cross. I have tried everything. I use it sometimes to align the labels, but I modify them manually to remove the crossings. Quote Link to comment
BJRobinson Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 10 hours ago, Nico_be said: Hello, I have the same problem, this tool is not perfect, the lines always cross. I have tried everything. I use it sometimes to align the labels, but I modify them manually to remove the crossings. Thanks Nico. Not what I wanted to hear. Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 On 10/29/2022 at 10:35 PM, BJRobinson said: they almost always crossover and are spaced apart at a spacing that I don't want I'm currently annotating a planting plan and having to deal with this... I always plan on doing a first pass a little bit wider than I want for the final. That way I can see which lines are crossing and then very roughly stack them in the right order. Note - if you do the first pass too wide then the leader line crosses will be all over the place - the key is to do just wide enough that you have room to manually resort the offending leader lines. In the second pass I align distribute they seem to get much closer with maybe only one or two crossing lines that I adjust manually. And in the third pass I align the labels (we like groups to be all vertical). Quick note about spacing in case you hadn't read this before - the tool uses the spacing between the top 2 tags when using "equal distance between shoulder lines" Second quick note - I just put up a wish list to add presets to this very useful, but not quite perfect tool! 1 Quote Link to comment
BJRobinson Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 On 12/2/2022 at 11:41 AM, hollister design Studio said: I'm currently annotating a planting plan and having to deal with this... I always plan on doing a first pass a little bit wider than I want for the final. That way I can see which lines are crossing and then very roughly stack them in the right order. Note - if you do the first pass too wide then the leader line crosses will be all over the place - the key is to do just wide enough that you have room to manually resort the offending leader lines. In the second pass I align distribute they seem to get much closer with maybe only one or two crossing lines that I adjust manually. And in the third pass I align the labels (we like groups to be all vertical). Quick note about spacing in case you hadn't read this before - the tool uses the spacing between the top 2 tags when using "equal distance between shoulder lines" Second quick note - I just put up a wish list to add presets to this very useful, but not quite perfect tool! Thanks. I did not know about the spacing of the top 2 tags. This will also help a lot. Quote Link to comment
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