Attribute driven symbology - how to disable rotated text?

David_Brooks

I'm designing a symbol showing the angle of view of photo locations. I would like to label each location with the viewpoint number, driven by an attribute. I don't want to use standard labelling because the larger yellow dot rotates behind the smaller dot, which is the anchor point of rotation. (rotation is also attribute driven).

Does anyone know a way of achieving this without the text also rotating? i would like it horizontal.

 

AlfredBaldenweck

Ooooh this was annoying to figure out.

1. Make your basic symbol 
   
2. Duplicate the parts sticking out from the middle and reverse their offset so that it's symmetrical (I also rotated the other triangle by 180 degrees here)
3. 
4. Save it to a style
   
5. Clear out all but two marker symbol layers
6. Make the one on top your text marker
7. Make the bottom one the symbol you just added to a style
   
8. It'll come in teeny so be prepared to scale it up. Make sure to only touch SIZE, not Point Size, or else your anchor point gets screwed up and you have mess around a bunch with absolute anchor points to get it right.
   
   
   Mine needed to be about 46pts when the base symbol had a point size of 10 while making it. Make another layer with the base symbol to check for sure. It'll never be exact.
9. Allow Symbol Property connections
   
10. Set your text marker to the field you want
    
11. Set your rotation angle of the other symbol layer to match your rotation field
12. Format the point symbol of the viewer
    
13. Turn off the reverse symbols from step 2
14. Hit apply
    

     

It would be really cool if we could set internal rotation with symbol property connections separately from the overall symbol varying by attribute. If you make an Idea for it, I'll upvote it.