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 setti…

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…

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.

Rhino 8 Text Object Group Bug

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brian (Brian Gillespie) January 8, 2025, 12:25am 6

RH-83240 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Rhino 8 Text Object Group Bug

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