More control over text tools

Hi Guys,

I have been using grasshopper for a while and i wish there would be more control over the 3D text tag and other text tools:
-It d be great if you could modify the font type and characteristics (bold, italic, underlined), define an offset from origin point, change color...

This would make the transfer from 3d to 2d much more efficient.

Cheers,

Arthur

An example of how jammed it can become:

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on January 11, 2010 at 8:52pm

by chance I just found out that if you make a text object in rhino of a particular font, grasshopper automatically updates text objects to have that font. In other words, it seems to simply use whatever font appears by default at the moment if you were to bring up the text object dialogue in Rhino.

I am still trying to cut down on the time I spend making single stroke fonts for CNC work.

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on January 11, 2010 at 9:02pm

Actually, it is the "Text" command. The "TextObject" command will not cause the grasshopper default font to change.

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on January 12, 2010 at 6:52am

Thanks Benjamin i will try that.

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on January 12, 2010 at 10:08pm

also, while searching for other text stuff I found this discussion which includes a very handy definition by Giulio Piacentino.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/manipulating-rhinotext

Permalink Reply by taz on January 13, 2010 at 1:04pm

Hmm... Interesting. There are some single line fonts for Rhino, but there are some setting that can be only set as a "TextObject" in order for the font to come out correctly. See the following sample: