With reference to the post generate text and use outlines in grasshopper… is it possible? , I am trying to output text visually and as an actual output in Rhino 5 using a Grasshopper scripted component. Basically, it should act like any Rhino.Geometry: it can be previewed and is removed from the disp…

[image] Bianchi: Am I wrong in this understanding? You’re mostly correct. You cannot override the Bake behaviour of a scripted component (although you can override the preview). That means that if you want baking/preview to work, you’ll have to output text data which supports these properties…

Okay, so that being said, is there a way for me to output Text as objects similar to Rhino Geometry? i.e. preview-able and bake-able, aside from turning them into polycurves by exploding the underlying geometry. Technically, I would be passing them as input/output from component to component.

[text3d] BakeableText.gh (16.1 KB)

Thank you, @DavidRutten ! I’ll post up the Python component here if and when I can adapt it. I think Rhino.Display.Text3D seems to be the data type I was looking for. P.S. I think I should clarify it a bit further. Is it possible to do such text object creation and output without doing a function o…

Python is beyond my remit I’m afraid. But note that the script component isn’t doing anything special, it outputs an instance of a class which provides the preview and baking functionality. As long as you can generate your own .NET class type via Python it should be possible.

[image] Bianchi: Also, I am a bit confused about this bit of code. Does it basically work as an override to the Bake Geometry function? It’s not an override. The class I created implements the IGH_BakeAwareData interface which demands a function with this signature. Eventually, when a paramet…

@DavidRutten , there are a number of overrides in the code you provided. Are they necessary if I convert the code to Python, in particular Boundingbox and GetBoundingbox? As long as you can generate your own .NET class type via Python it should be possible. From what I understand, I’d need to use…

Don’t know, too python. @piac can you enlighten us?

Hi guys yes, this is possible in GhPython, also in Rhino 5, as the stuff that needs to be overridden is not in the GH_Component/GH_Script class itself. Here it is, David’s code, translated to IronPython. BakeableTextGhPy.gh (15.7 KB)

Thanks again for the help, @DavidRutten and @piac . Funnily enough I had just finished translating it to Python when your reply showed up. In particular, I was struggling with returning the right data type from the function, since I’d only get the class instance back when I would store the function c…

Creating text objects and outputting them as normal Rhino geometry

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DavidRutten (David Rutten) September 29, 2017, 8:23am 4

BakeableText.gh (16.1 KB)

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Creating text objects and outputting them as normal Rhino geometry

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