how to display text

hello everyone,

i'm writing component on c# for grasshopper,

trying to write simple string text on rhino viewport,

how can i do it?

tried using Rhino.Display.Text3d and TextDot.... maybe i didnt realy understand how it works.

thanks for the help :)

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 29, 2015 at 4:30am

Do you want the text to be oriented in 3D space or always horizontal and facing the viewer?

Permalink Reply by Gil Cizer on November 29, 2015 at 4:40am

the horizontal one will be good..

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 29, 2015 at 6:20pm

Ok, so you still have a choice of drawing 2D text, or oriented 3D text. 2D text will always be drawn on top of everything else and you may have trouble controlling the size, but 3D text may be partially inside other geometry so may get visually clipped.

Do you need the text to be depth-sorted, or should it appear in front of all geometry in the viewport?

Permalink Reply by Gil Cizer on December 2, 2015 at 7:52am

sorry for the delay....

I need the text to appear at a Point3d location i will give it.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 2, 2015 at 9:25am

I attached a file with two C# components. One which draws text at a fixed size, the other adjusts for perspective.

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