Yesterday I noticed something weird with the Text Object command in Rhino 8 when you toggle on the “Group output” option. The whole word is a group (as expected), but then each individual letter is sub-grouped into that as well.
Here’s an example in Rhino 7 vs in Rhino 8 with same Text Object settings:
Thanks, I reported the bug at
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-83240/Too-many-groups
Hi Derek,
This was added as a request in V8. See https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-62135.
I’ll talk to Steve and see what we want to do. In V9 we can add UI to be specific about how much grouping we’re supposed to do. We’re not supposed to be adding new UI in V8 now.
Cheers,
Tim
Hi Tim,
Subgrouping the individual glyphs could definitely be useful for some workflows, but the vast majority of the time for me it will just add extra steps. I think having an additional “Subgroup glyphs” option to right of “Group output” would be the simple way to handle this.
Hi Derek,
In the first release candidate of 8.11 there will be a command line option called “GroupGlyphOutput”. It will default to whatever is set as the current grouping option so users that only use the dialog will not notice any behavioural change. If you run -TextObject and set that option to no it will not group glyphs from then on, whether you use the command line or the dialog. You can set it back to yes, if you ever wanted to, by running the command line again and changing it back to yes.
Cheers,
Tim
