I have spent a few hours trying to find out why my text curves weren’t oriented identically between their respective planes. I found out that Nautilus automatically infers text orientation, depending on text plane orientation. The picture below shows three rotated planes with three “2”s generated on those planes by Nautilus. Notice that how the 2’s are placed relative to the plane origin changes when the plane is rotated.
As a user, I expect that only the plane I give to the curve generator is used to determine how the text should be placed, and that therefore, regardless of plane orientation, I can always trust that my text is consistently placed relative to my planes. However, this is not the case, and I know of no way to force a consistent placing.
Does anyone know a way to force Nautilus (or another text curve generator) to orient text consistently on any given plane? Thanks in advance.
Hello
for this one it is not really my fault. I just use Rhino tools, and this is related to this bug I corrected. Here you will find a C# from this old discussion
I see, thank you for the clarification! For now I have managed to work around the issue by using Squid’s text tool as this seemed to keep text oriented consistently, but it’s good to learn how it works behind the hood!
