Exporting text to a DXF file using grasshopper

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Hello everybody,

i’m trying to create a script to generate geometries and cut it in a CNC machine, in order to organize my inventory i create a serial number for each geometry, then i export everything to a DXF but i cant not export the serial number, only the geometries

i’m generating the text with visualARQ (because I couldn’t find another way to export text without baking) and i’m trying to export it to DXF using Export CAD component from TT Toolbox but it doesn’t work because it doesn’t reconize text, only geometries, the problem is that i can’t not export the serial number text as a group of curves because the CNC software i’m using doesn’t recognizes those curves as text

anyone have an idea?

thank you for your time

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Unless you’re creating an absolutely huge amount of text, I don’t see much of a disadvantage baking text or curves to rhino first. You can add user text when you bake and then use EleFront or a script to export files with specified names. At some point there should also be a native grasshopper rhino export component which can handle more formats than just *.3dm

Check this topic here for a script example:

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thank you for your answer,

i’im sorry i dont have too much experience with elefront, what is an user text?

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User text can be used to save attributes with an object in Rhino.

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i cant not export my text as a key/value attribute because the CNC software only reconize text into a layer called “TxtUsinage”

i’m currently using elefront to bake my layers

for the geometry is ok but againt i have problems with text

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i can bake the text but its bake name is not reconized so each time i’m baking, i’m adding the same amound of text and the when i try to reference by bake name i can’t not find it in order to export into a DXF file using Export Generic component

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I’m not using Elefront anymore so I cannot help you with this.

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