Convert text to braille

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Here is a little script

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You have to right click on Id then “Set Multiple Guids”, normally you could select all the objects you want.
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Then slect in Rhino, click enter if OK.
Surface will appears, you can extrude then,…
When OK you could bake the geometry in Rhino.
braille from textobject.gh (5.4 KB)

//Rhino.DocObjects.TextObject obj = (Rhino.DocObjects.TextObject) RhinoDocument.Objects.FindId(guid);
    var objet = RhinoDocument.Objects.FindId(guid);

    //Data from wikipedia
    string ascii = " A1B'K2L@CIF/MSP\"E3H9O6R^DJG>NTQ,*5<-U8V.%[$+X!&;:4\\0Z7(_?W]#Y)=";
    var charsAscii = ascii.ToCharArray();

    string braille = "⠀⠁⠂⠃⠄⠅⠆⠇⠈⠉⠊⠋⠌⠍⠎⠏⠐⠑⠒⠓⠔⠕⠖⠗⠘⠙⠚⠛⠜⠝⠞⠟⠠⠡⠢⠣⠤⠥⠦⠧⠨⠩⠪⠫⠬⠭⠮⠯⠰⠱⠲⠳⠴⠵⠶⠷⠸⠹⠺⠻⠼⠽⠾⠿";
    var charsBraille = braille.ToCharArray();

    if(objet is Rhino.DocObjects.TextObject)
    {
      Rhino.DocObjects.TextObject obj = ( Rhino.DocObjects.TextObject) objet;
      //get the text of text object
      string brailleString = obj.DisplayText.ToUpper();
      //Conversion to Braille
      for (int i = 0; i < charsAscii.Length; i++)
      {
        brailleString = brailleString.Replace(charsAscii[i], charsBraille[i]);
      }
      //To surface
      if(size == 0) size = 5;

      Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontStyle fontStyle = Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontStyle.Upright;
      Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontWeight fontWeight = Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontWeight.Normal;
      bool underlined = false;
      bool strikethrough = false;
      Rhino.DocObjects.Font font = new Rhino.DocObjects.Font(face, fontWeight, fontStyle, underlined, strikethrough);
      BoundingBox bb = obj.Geometry.GetBoundingBox(false);
      Plane plane = new Plane(bb.Min + Vector3d.YAxis * size, Vector3d.XAxis, Vector3d.YAxis);

      TextEntity text_entity = new TextEntity
        {
          Plane = plane,
          PlainText = brailleString,
          Justification = TextJustification.BottomRight,
          Font = font
          };
      Rhino.DocObjects.DimensionStyle dimstyle = new Rhino.DocObjects.DimensionStyle();
      dimstyle.TextHeight = size;
      double smallCapsScale = 1;
      double spacing = 0;
      A = text_entity.CreateSurfaces(dimstyle, smallCapsScale, spacing);
    }
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