Creating Text to colored mesh

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Hi,

Is it possible to write a script in GHPython to create a text object and in the output represent both text and mesh object which could be defined colored mesh?

If someone knows that and how to write. I’ll appreciate the help.

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Hello again, sorry for insisting on.
I’m grateful If someone could share an idea or any suggestion about my issue in helping me. :bouquet:

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Could you be a little more clear for the input and output
Input
Text
Font
Size …
Thickness?
Output
Mesh (2d 3d ?)

you will find script that can do that if you search on old forum grasshopper3d.com

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Hi @laurent_delrieu.
Sure, Thanks for the reply.
here’s my plan for the script:
Inputs:

  1. Text as strings (it’s better to be list access)
  2. Font
  3. Size(text height)
  4. color

Outputs:

  1. Mesh (2d)
  2. colored mesh
  3. text object

Thank you.

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Here is a small script. There are 2 C#, one ouputting all fonts (424 for me) and one outputing Brep. Brep are changed to mesh outside C#. It is surely not difficult to do it inside, so you can do it.
There is no placement of the text.
I am quite sure many plugins do this type of work but it was interesting to remake this script with the new Rhino 6 objects.

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text_curve_rhino6.gh (10.4 KB)

And for the record
https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/T_Rhino_DocObjects_Font.htm
https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/T_Rhino_Geometry_TextEntity.htm

    if(content != null && content != String.Empty
    && face != null && face != String.Empty )
    {
      if(size == 0)
        size = 5;
      Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontStyle fontStyle = Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontStyle.Upright;
      if (italics) fontStyle = Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontStyle.Italic;
      Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontWeight fontWeight = Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontWeight.Normal;
      if (bold) fontWeight = Rhino.DocObjects.Font.FontWeight.Bold;

      bool underlined = false;
      bool strikethrough = false;

      Rhino.DocObjects.Font font = new Rhino.DocObjects.Font(face, fontWeight, fontStyle, underlined, strikethrough);
      TextEntity text_entity = new TextEntity
        {
          Plane = Plane.WorldXY,
          PlainText = content,
          Justification = TextJustification.MiddleCenter,
          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);
    } 
    else 
    {
      Print("Some content is required.");
    }

And see this

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@laurent_delrieu wonderful!
Thank you so much. for your help.
best

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Hi Laurent,
My old vector text tool which woked in Rhino 5 had a plane input, but it does not work in Rhino 6.
Is it possibble that you can add it to your text tool too?

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Thank you very much for this program Laurent, it helped me enormously for a project.
On the other hand, do you know if it is possible to recover the curves of a monoline font like SLF ARCHITECT. This would be for the 2nd part of my project but I have no idea how to do it.
Can you help me with this?

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Hello
happy it helped.
You will find in my plugin this kind of tool. It is also quite easy to use Rhino common for that.

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By default I try to output just single line font from the filter.
slf font.gh (7.3 KB)

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Many thanks Laurent !