text tag lasercut

Hi there,

I need help!

I´m pretty new to grasshopper and I can´t seem to figure out sth that is probably

quite easy to do.

I built a simple geometry in rhino that consits of many single surfaces that have different orientations. now I wanna tag them with numbers or letter (no triangolation or no single surface that´s divided like in the tutorial that u can find online) so I can just unroll the geometry in rhino to lasercut it.

can someone help me?

can´t seem to make it work.

all the best, Andreas

PS: if u want to get an idea... www.andreaswoyke.wordpress.com

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 25, 2011 at 6:05am

You can bake the Text 3D Tag component into Rhino. You just have to supply the correct Plane for orientation.

Permalink Reply by andreas andreas on May 25, 2011 at 6:40am

hi,

thanks for your reply. I really appreciate it.

I tried it your way but unfortunately it only worked for 2 surfaces.

I don´t know where the problem is. I´m gonna upload the sample I mentioned.

Attachments:

1st attempt text tag.3dm, 141 KB
text tag.ghx, 328 KB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 25, 2011 at 8:06am

Sorry I should have explained that the Srf Frames component was just to get lost of example frames on my surface. What you need to do is to evaluate each of you surfaces at a reference point and get the frame to place your label. Also a good move is to convert the Series out put into Integers so you do away with the decimal point in the label.

Note the re-parameterization of the surface so that you can give the location of UV in terms of 0 to 1

Attachments:

texttag_solution.ghx, 339 KB

Permalink Reply by andreas andreas on May 25, 2011 at 10:23am

oh man, thanks sooo much. that´s very kind of you. didn´t expect to get an answer at all and now that... thanks for your time!

oh... but I just realised that it doesn´t work for me... if I unroll the whole object manually in rhino it doesn´t unroll the numbers on the surfaces.. :.(

Permalink Reply by taz on May 25, 2011 at 2:41pm

You can store your label info as a point name and bake the point.

Points should unroll with surfaces.

Then convert the point name into a 2D label.

Permalink Reply by andreas andreas on June 26, 2011 at 3:17pm

i forgot to mention that i got it. unfortunately the numbers are twisted on the projected srf...meaning a "10" is a "0I" but with little patience that works for me.

thanks again for your help. highly appreciated!

Andreas

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on June 26, 2011 at 3:48pm