Hi, I’ve been using TextEntity CreatePolySurfaces() function to create volumes of Texts. [image] 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. …

A little Update, apparently the CreateCurves CreateSurfaces CreateExtrusions Functions works for the “null” values: [image]

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…

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

Hi @dale , I’ve put together a minimal repro here: https://gist.github.com/tmakin/8191c31053db652c2d4a2cec1fd4ee84 RhinoTextBugReport.cs /// <summary> /// Repro for intermittent failure of TextEntity.CreateExtrusions /// The issue also affects TextEntity.CreateSurfaces /// /// Expected Out…

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

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.

Text Entitiy CreatePolySurfaces returns Null Value

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brian (Brian Gillespie) August 11, 2020, 11:48pm 8

RH-59680 is fixed in the latest WIP

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Text Entitiy CreatePolySurfaces returns Null Value

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