Text Entitiy CreatePolySurfaces returns Null Value

Rhino Developer
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Hi,
I’ve been using TextEntity CreatePolySurfaces() function to create volumes of Texts.

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Sometimes (and the Error is not allways occuring, even if the input is the same) some of the letters are returned as null value.

I don’t really know why. When does this function return a null value. Is this a bug?

Thanks,
Martin

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A little Update,

apparently the

  • CreateCurves
  • CreateSurfaces
  • CreateExtrusions
    Functions works for the “null” values:

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Hi @MartinIC, I have just run into the problem with both CreateSurfaces and CreateExtrusions. It is particularly tricky because of the intermittent failure. Did you ever manage to resolve it?

The only workaround I have at the moment to generate each char individually and then splice together, but I’d prefer to avoid going that route.

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Hi @tom_makin,

Can you provide a model and/or source code, that I can run here, that isn’t working the way you want?

Thanks,

– Dale

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Hi @dale,

I’ve put together a minimal repro here:

Here is a screenshot when I run this code from inside a c# RhinoCommon plugin.

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Hi @tom_makin,

The sample was really helpful - thank you. I am able to repeat the issue.

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-59680

Thanks,

– Dale

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Excellent, glad it was helpful.

For anyone else who encounters this bug, I found that single character generation to be stable. I offset each TextEntity.Plane in a loop using the bounding box of the previous char.

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RH-59680 is fixed in the latest WIP