A component like Text Tag but with better height control?

So TextTag might be my least favorite text component but it’s the only one I know of that displays text oriented to your view. Really useful for quick snap shops for construction drawings, or it would be, if you could increase the relative scale more easily. I know you can right click and use a preset for all input text but that feels clunky and imo doesn’t really do much when the scale is so dependent on your zoom. I end up having to change the scale of multiple text-tags independently to get different perspectives.

Also, what you see doesn’t often transfer to printing documents, images or PDFs the same, and I have to screen capture at a lower resolution.

Is there a trick to this, or another plugin/component I could try instead? I sometimes use other text components with the surface normals, that will at least put everything on the right plane but not a great rotation. Nothing beats text that rotates with you, especially for recording videos.

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Maybe TextTag Component from PersianCat could help.

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I have done something like this in the past (with HUMAN to get viewport info, don’t know if there are vanilla components that do the same)


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@Mahdiyar Thank you, I’ll try that out!

@inno Thanks as well, that is a very interesting solution. It works. I connected them all to a reset button, rather than a toggle, and without the timer because it was lagging me a bit with all my different labels up. Rotate the view I want, reset, adjust scale and snap a shot.

This ended up being the best solution, I have too many plugins so I’m always loathe to download more but this works great, the other work-around ended up being hidden behind some of my geometry where as these tags can’t be visually blocked and I like that I can choose the font. Thanks for sharing.

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