Text Field Question

[Mikael_Liback]

For text fields there is this function where you can get the text from the object name (or something else). I have one problem, if you for example save the file in Rhino 5 format the text turns into “####” since it doesn’t support this feature.

Is there some way to freeze/unlink the text field from the object but whatever text was in it remains. So you can export the file without the text turning into “####”.

I’m kind of guessing there is no way to do this, otherwise it doesn’t make sense that rhino doesn’t do it automatically when saving in Rhino 5 format or earlier.

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Mikael -

@Mikael_Liback

Is there some way to freeze/unlink the text field from the object but whatever text was in it remains.

Round-tripping via the DWG format will do that.
Apart from that workaround, Pascal wrote a script to do so:

Convert fx text to regular text?

Hello - this should work - seems not to like dimensions but text and leaders OK so far import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs import scriptcontext as sc import Rhino def ToPlainText(): #id = rs.SelectedObjects()[0] ids = rs.GetObjects(filter = 512, preselect = True) if ids: for id in ids: geo = rs.coercegeometry(id) x = geo.Text if x: geo.TextFormula = x sc.doc.Objects.Replace(id, geo) sc.doc.Views.Red…

-wim