I would like to generate a box around texts on my grasshopper script (not bounding box as some texts are tilted). So would like to obtain two points (diagonal) of texts then use rectangle 2pts to generate a box. Note that these texts are referenced texts on Rhino (from an imported AutoCAD file). I …

Use bounding box with a rotated ‘P’ (Plane) input that matches the angle of the text.

@Joseph_Oster Thanks for the suggestion. I am quite new to this - how shall I obtain the angle of the text?

[image] ayyyw: how shall I obtain the angle of the text? Ah, well, there’s the rub. If you’re lucky, it’s 30, 45 or 60 degrees, otherwise… You can trial and error plane rotation to find the bounding box with the smallest area. The following is an attempt to demonstrate that but it doesn’t …

Thank you - I will give it a try.

minimal BBox should do the same job but I can’t make it work? (R5) And though the basic idea of what I posted above is very simple, getting meaningful angle values instead of their complement is much harder than it should be. I may try it again later.

If you are using python, you could use TextObjectPlane, and get the angle from there. https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoScriptSyntax/#geometry-TextObjectPlane This could be useful too: [image] text from Rhino to GH Dear Forum!! Its been a long time since I don't post anything so …

I put only a little more effort into trying to interpret rotation angle consistently before realizing that we don’t really need the angle at all, just the minimal bounding box. This simplification, along with checking only ±45 degrees instead of ±90 degrees, might have consequences later such as re…

@Adam_M I tried TextObjectPlane, but didn’t get what I want. The bounding box does not necessary surround the text. The forum however helps.

Thank you so much for your help. Bounding box formed are like these [Capture] The planes obtained TextObjectPlane [Capture2] The TextObjectPoint [Capture3] Some points are not at bottom left [Capture4]

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Finding corners of reference text on Rhino

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Adam_M (Adam Mounsey) November 11, 2019, 10:37am 11

Try this. It may not be the most efficient method.
TextBoundingBox_Python.gh (3.0 KB)

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Finding corners of reference text on Rhino

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