This is hopeless…
You can see the problem - the formatting of the text, which displays fine in the rhino notepad, doesn’t translate to the actual screen.
Surely, in 2016, there has to be a simple way of importing text, a table, a spreadsheet into rhino?
To get this far, i have had to paste the text to notepad, then format it again with tab stops, and then paste to rhino from there…and it still doesn’t work.
Ive saved out of word as a PDF, then imported the PDF into rhino - it doesn’t bring the text in.
i have a old copy of Visual Cadd, which deals with this stuff via OLE, and its great - you can even double click the object to re-dit it in the original program…
Does anyone have a solution to this probem I am not seeing? (using an image of the text on a picture frame is not a “solution”)
Arial is a proportionally spaced font, thus nearly impossible to get “stuff” to align in a tabular way. You might consider using a fixed space font. If you can’t find a fixed space font you like, try inserting text one column at a time.
Well, I tried courier new - same thing.
If you can get a tabbed set of text in from word or excel to rhino, keeping the layout, I’d sure like to see it, and have you describe how you did it…
Well, its better, but you see its still not right - theres a mis-match in the “pipe” & “SectionA” columns…
Thanks for your help, but surely it cant be this hard? Formatting with spaces is not really a “solution” is it?
We just need to be able to paste a set of cells from excel, or a table from word etc, and have rhino eat it.
Thanks Dale -
Sure - that is the result I want.
In this instance, with this little amount of text, it could be argued this is a solution.
I see grasshopper can probably be made to do this kind of thing.
However, I can’t even spell grasshopper, and it’s just a shame that something so basic has not been hooked up in native rhino after all these years.
As far as I know, windows OLE was created just for this very purpose; it certainly worked flawlessly in a previous cad program I used to use.
Why does rhino not support this windows feature?
Yes this is disappointing but not entirely unexpected. I’ll see if I can get something to work in Grasshopper. I have never written a line of code in my life but I am finding myself turning to Grasshopper more and more often for solutions that involve instancing and manipulating things that were created outside of Grasshopper’s toolset.
Hi,
You might be interested in our plugin, which lets you create/import tables from csv, xls or xlsx files:
Demo video here: Table for rhino Demo - YouTube
More details and download: Tables – TomKod