In example, text height extracted directly from “text entity” component is wrong. Going the “Annotation style overrides” → “Annotation Style” - > “Text settings” route yields the correct result.
Same for other values, fonts are different, other properties return instead of value (mask size for example).
Explode object and “Model block Instance” → “Model block Definition (object output)” behaves the same way.
Great point on the override to 1, that would be problematic if you were trying to find the overridden instances…, @AndyPayne , is there a reason the Text Entity > Annotation Text Setting size output is not the size set by the Style??
I’m not sure I understand what you’re after. The Text Entity → Annotation Text Setting will only return values that you have been overridden. It doesn’t automatically return all of the default values for the style. It will return null for any value that’s not manually overridden, otherwise, it will return the overridden value.
Kike and I have discussed adding a component which will return the “effective” style values. So, this component would return whatever the actual value would be for that property, whether that comes from the Annotation Style itself, or if it’s been overridden on the instance. Does this help?
My goal is to have a new instance of the text with position mirrored by xz plane. I cannot just mirror the text entity - the output goes to autoCAD (company standard, can’t change that), where it appears mirrored / unlegible.
Altering the placement point and chaching it moves the original rather than creating a new one.
I could use “bake”, but then I would have to manually delete the baked geometry upon update.
So I have to explicitly declate a new entity in the new placement point with the same settings no matter what these are. Or is there a better way?
The new Content Cache component allows you to simply “update” an existing object, rather than adding a new copy of the same geometry. This would mean you wouldn’t have to manually delete the source object once you bake. You can read more about this feature here.
I got back to this issue after a small hiatus and came up with a solution.
The task is: how to mirror text so it appears correctly when exported to AutoCAD.
Vertical alignment is flipped to keep the closest distance from text entity to mirror line the same for original and mirror image.
I’ve noticed one more issue. Three text entities. All set to the same style. Only horizontal alingment is changed. Overwrite to right alignment is not correctly picked up by TextEntity object.
@Vojtech_Liska@martinsiegrist What build of Rhino/Grasshopper are you on? Can you try opening these files on 8.14 and see if you get the same results? For Martin’s file, I’m getting something like this (see image)… and this makes sense to me because the one Text Settings that is returning null is the “Center/Middle”… and the reason this is returning null is because there are no overrides on this annotation style. The default alignments for the annotation styles being used is center and middle and so this is returning null since there are no overrides being applied.
Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 128GB)
.NET 7.0.20
Computer platform: DESKTOP
Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA RTX A5000 (NVidia) Memory: 24GB, Driver date: 7-23-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 560.76
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1
Secondary graphics devices.
NVIDIA Quadro K2200 (NVidia) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 7-23-2024 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device!
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)
Anti-alias mode: 8x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 7-23-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.6076
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 24564 MB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\martinsiegrist\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\NVIDIADenoiser\0.4.3\NVIDIADenoiser.Windows.rhp “NVIDIADenoiser.Windows” 0.4.3.0
