[Screenshot 2024-10-16 173105] text entity text settings is null.gh (11.3 KB) The text entity exists and has a plane and text output but the text settings gives a null output. I am on Version 8 SR13 (8.13.24282.10001, 2024-10-08)

[image] Kyuubimode: What should I do if I simply want the text height of any text entity - regardless of whether its overridden the styles or not? I need the text height as a number to input some other stuff further down. You would think so, the issue being that the Annotation Style and under…

[image] text settings outputs are null.gh (14.5 KB) another example, this time the text setting is valid but all its outputs are null

Are you looking to Override the instance or modify the Style? The text setting components is only going to return overrides… [image] Bug - Text settings returns incorrect text height Grasshopper The Text Entity> Text Setting is returning the default Text Settings (which c…

…not gonna lie I am really confused with this. The thread you have linked says that if i haven’t overwritten the style then the text settings is not going to give me the text height. I won’t know if the text entity I will get as input has overridden annotation styles or not. What should I do if I s…

Thanks a lot! Kudos to the dev team, they are doing an awesome job with RH 8 grasshopper, im sure the kinks will be ironed out well with enough time :smiley:

[image] Kyuubimode: What should I do if I simply want the text height of any text entity - regardless of whether its overridden the styles or not? At the moment, there isn’t a way to extract the “effective” property you’re looking for. What I mean is that we need to create a component that wi…

Text Entity outputs Null Text Settings

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brian (Brian Gillespie) February 11, 2026, 3:54am 16

RH-84329 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Text Entity outputs Null Text Settings

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