Can't rotate TextEntity upside down

Hi @AndyPayne,

in the attached Grasshopper example I’m using a TextEntity from the Rhino tab in Grasshopper and place it to a XY Plane which I rotate more than 90 degrees. I want the text to really rotate (getting upside down) but it always switches direction to stay readable:


Test_RotatedText.gh (11.8 KB)

I suspect the Text Object setting named “Text reads forward when viewed from behind” is overwritten and always switched to True because also when baking a TextObject with an Annotation style where that setting is switched off I end up with switched readable Text.

I searched all the Annotation Style Components for that setting and didn’t find it. I also failed to bake text without any overrides - just plain Text Entities with Rhino Annotation style settings.

Can you give a hint to how such a case can be handled?
Thank you!

Hi Romuald -

Thanks, I’ve put this issue on the list as RH-83668 Grasshopper: AS-Text Needs Font Orientation Setting
-wim

Hey @wim,
thank you for that fast answer and for putting the issue on the list!

Apart from that, I didn’t succeed in baking a TextEntity without any object-specific override from the selected Rhino Annotation Style. For example if I bake a Text just fed through an Annotation Style Overrides-Component with just an Annotation Style connected and without any override (as shown in the attached example), I’d expect to get a text object with just plain Annotation style settings.
If I do that now I get an overridden style where I can “Remove Overrides”:


Test_Text.gh (11.4 KB)

Is that the expected behaviuor? Could you give a hint how to just get text objects with plain Annotation Style settings?
Thank you!

Hey @wim or @AndyPayne ,
is there a way to bake Text Objects without any local overrides as described in the last post?
Or do you plan to add one? Thank you!

Yes. I have just pushed a fix for this. It should be available in the first release of Rhino 8.13.

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Hey @AndyPayne,
great, thank you for that fast response!
Looking forward to SR13 :slight_smile: