Do you have any advice on this @User? I am also trying

setlabel layer metal3

and

label ibias FreeSans 30 -metal3

and neither seem to work. Is the manual out of date? Am I passing in arguments wrong?

Okay, in my first comment I failed to read this comment first. . .

I also cant seem to get the setlabel command to work. I know this label is valid:

% findlabel vdd
% setlabel layer
%

Try the full set of arguments; e.g.,

label ibias FreeSans 30 0 0 0 c metal3

. The response from the command makes it sound like it is completely ignoring the layer. That would indicate that the command isn't parsed like the manual page says it is.

the command you just provided made a label but it did not print what layer it is on, so I seem to have no way of actually checking

FYI,

findlabel

does not select the label; what you want would be

select area [goto vdd]