Invalid Text Lines - Single Stroke Font Problem?

I'm using Giulio Piacentino's Text Lines Definition (Thanks Giulio!!), in combination with another definition of my own, to create single stroke text for CNC uses. But coming out of the Text Lines VB component I am getting invalid curves in some letters, specifically "r", "i", "y", and "t". I am using a single stroke stroke font, "Machine Tool SanSerif" (from here) which I have attached below.

Does anyone know how I can fix these invalid curves?

Is it the font?

Why might they be invalid?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Attachments:

ScreenHunter_01 Jun. 14 18.01.jpg, 170 KB
ScreenHunter_02 Jun. 14 18.09.jpg, 134 KB
machtssr-gm.ttf, 20 KB

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on June 21, 2010 at 3:59am

This definition has two scripts, one in RhinoCommon and the other in the .Net SDK 1. The second one should load in Gh 0.6, too.

- Giulio
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giulio@mcneel.com
McNeel Europe, Barcelona

Attachments:

scriptedsinglestroke.ghx, 64 KB

Permalink Reply by paulcoudamy on January 15, 2013 at 7:39am

It's looks great.

Could you explain how to assign the scripted new font output to a 3Dtag ?

Thanks

Permalink Reply by Hans Christian Thisen on July 1, 2013 at 2:11am

Just wanted to say thanks to Giulio for this very nice VB component.

But... after the latest GH update I get an error regarding this line:

82: Dim local_font As New Font(font, size) 'makes a font instance copy

1 Error (BC30561): 'Font' is ambiguous and imported from the namespaces or types 'System.Drawing, Rhino.DocObjects'. (line 82)

Hope you can help sort this out

BR HC

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on July 2, 2013 at 6:25pm

Try both .... New System.Drawing.Font(font, size)

and .... As New Rhino.DocObjects

...don't know which one is asked. But its definitely the solution to that error. You can check out some components from fabtools.blickfeld7.com for single line fonts...there are more than 1 font ;-)

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Hans Christian Thisen on July 3, 2013 at 1:21am

Thank you!!!

Just had to Replace: "Font(font, size)" with "System.Drawing.Font(font, size)".

Fabtools plugin looks nice, but I am building without "plugins" this time ;)

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on July 3, 2013 at 1:07pm

I'm glad it worked.

It's not a plugin it's cluster (user object), so no need to install just drag and drop it to your gh window and it's running...no need to restart.

Best