Justified 3d Text Tag

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Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on March 9, 2012 at 11:44am

Edit: My solution was to calculate the angle of the planes used to place the text and a basic X vector, and rotate the planes on the left half of the sphere 180 degrees. That worked ok.

The problem, as seen in the image, is that this rotateD text would need to be right justified...

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 9, 2012 at 11:44am

Where's the image?

Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on March 9, 2012 at 11:47am

Image

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 9, 2012 at 12:00pm

You can select all the text objects you want to justify after baking them and justify them all at once, but if it's a hassle to select them manually, you can use this script:

 

Dim textjust As textjustification = textjustification.left

If z Then textjust = TextJustification.Right

doc.Objects.AddText(x, y, 2, "Arial", False, False, textjust)

owner.Locked = True

 

Place that code into a VB component. Connect the list of strings to the x input, the list of planes to the y input and a list of boolean values to the z input. In this last list false means justified to the left, true to the right. To bake the text right click on the component and select 'enable'. You won't be able to preview the text in the viewport until you bake it.

 

To change other text attributes, change the line that contains '2,"Arial",false,false'. These values correspond in that order to 'text height,font,bold,italic'.

Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on March 9, 2012 at 12:41pm

Thank you so much Vicente...

Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work...

See attached.

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 9, 2012 at 12:44pm

What's the problem exactly?

Does it bake text objects when you right click on it and select 'enable'?

It does bake the text objects but all are still justified to the left?

 

If it's the second option i'd like to see 3 panel components that show the vb input data.

Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on March 9, 2012 at 2:27pm

Here it is.

It bakes ok, but not aligned. Baked geometry is shown in RED in in the screenshot.

At first the VB only showed X and Y. I added Z through the input manager.

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 9, 2012 at 2:30pm

I want to see what data is going through the wires into the VB component.

EDIT: Sketchup, LOL

Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on March 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

hehe. what's wrong with sketchup. I use it for model+renderings

: ) I have enough love for all programs.

New Screenshot

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 9, 2012 at 3:03pm

That's strange, it should work.

Can you post the file, or at least that part? If so, internalize any geometry/data so that you only need the .gh file.

Permalink Reply by Gui Talarico on March 12, 2012 at 7:36am

Here is the entire thing.

I also welcome any comments you may have about the definition.

(The original one pulls the data from an excel file through gHowl)

Thanks!

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• ProgramMakerInternal.gh, 58 KB

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 12, 2012 at 10:11am

Everything is correct, the problem is that it only works with Rhino 5.0. I guess you are working with 4.0? If it's a posibilty try switching.

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