Unrolling Texts

I just wonder if one can unroll text tags the way surfaces/curves/points are unrolled. I had a go at tweaking the C# script from this definition

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/unroll-surface-and-breps

but seems like the Unroll Class doesn't support non-geometry objects.

Any comment is much appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by djordje on April 18, 2013 at 12:58pm

Hi Thu,

Not sure I could help you with your problem.
But baking the 3d text tags and exploding the resulting text, converts the text into curves.

Permalink Reply by Thu Nguyen Phuoc on April 21, 2013 at 12:04pm

I;ve tried that but when I unroll the textx (now curves) with the surface, lots of them just gone missing

Permalink Reply by Jesus Galvez on April 18, 2013 at 1:28pm

Have you tried to convert the text to curves/surfaces with Giulio Piacentino's tools?

http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/static/txtLine-0.8.61.ghx

http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/grasshopper-tools/

Permalink Reply by Thu Nguyen Phuoc on April 21, 2013 at 12:06pm

I havent used the tool but I did try to explode the text into curves but when I unroll them there are some parts that go missing

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on April 24, 2013 at 8:25am

Try the attached...

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Unroll_with_labels.gh, 2 KB

Permalink Reply by djordje on April 24, 2013 at 11:52am

Fantastic!

Thank you.

Permalink Reply by Thu Nguyen Phuoc on April 25, 2013 at 5:24am

Thanks for the definition. However, Im having trouble here because the labels are actually baked objects from a text tag component from GH. I might just being plain dumb here but text tags are not recognized as strings?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on April 28, 2013 at 10:33am

Native grasshopper doesn't let you reference baked/rhino native text objects. My Human plug-in (download here) will let you grab text objects and then get their text content and location.

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Unroll_with_referenced_labels.gh, 14 KB

Permalink Reply by Thu Nguyen Phuoc on May 2, 2013 at 8:14am

Thank you so much. Im testing it out now. Will update you with the results as soon as I finish

Permalink Reply by Thu Nguyen Phuoc on May 15, 2013 at 12:21pm

Hello, it works really well. however, there is this one surface that wont be able to unroll. I tried to unroll it using rhino command Unroll srf and it works normally. however it wont work with your component. I can't think of any reason why, apart from the possibility that there's something strange with the unroller method of RhinoCommon.

One more question: seems like the position of the unroll surface is defined very randomly. is there anyway to control where the unroll surface will be?

Permalink Reply by Christian D on November 17, 2013 at 7:37am