Mathematical Equations/ Symbols in Rhino Text

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Hello There,

I am using Rhino for scientific illustrations. Sometimes Id like to add an equation as a text on the 3D model. However, this doesnt seem to be possible. Is there any workaround or a plugin that is capable of doing such a thing?

Regards

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Hi @ahmaddarawshi2008,

It is possible, but clunky.

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To do this, I used the equation editor in Word to create the text, then a screen grab program (I used Snagit) to capture an image of the Word display. Then I simply pasted that into Rhino, creating a picture plane which I could move into position.

HTH
Jeremy

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Hi @jeremy5

Thank you for answering! Actually this is also the method I am using now. I was looking for a more straight forward method. Especially that this method does not allow for the automatic Horizontal to view option that we can find for regular text.

I find Rhino the best software there is to do scientific illustrations especially those involving geometric aspects, yet it lacks this basic and simple (I should hope so) feature. It would be a huge step if Rhino included support for latex equations!

Regards

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Hi,
I second this, it would be a really useful feature to be able to make the input in LaTeX-format, for example for engineering sketches where you can have a lot of fractions, greek letters and subscripts (would perhaps solve the subscript problem at the same time). Yes you can solve all this with nasty workarounds but the perfect solution would be LaTeX-input. So I’d really appreciate.
Please let me know if there’s already a plugin or something.
Best regards

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Will this work?

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Hi Scott,
This might be a workaround for some people but I don’t like that I get bitmap images in my nice vector drawings. The text is not searchable anymore, it’s probably not easy to scale to the right font size and the file gets bigger, too.
Before I do that, I prefer to write formulas with the normal text function, copy/pasting special characters from somewhere and writing index in smaller fontsize. But still it’s annoying and I would appreciate a proper LaTeX-input to get vector-formulas very much.
Best regards
Joachim

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I ran this other site that does deliver vectors using the site below:

formulas.3dm (621.1 KB)

formulasv8

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