Text to Mesh or Outline Curves?

Grasshopper
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I am trying to export my text tags to another 3d software so that i can properly set up my scene. Cinema 4d does not identify text objects so i’m thinking maybe there is a way to convert text to mesh or extract the outlines of the characters.

thanks

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The simplest approach might be to bake a Text Tag 3D and then running Explode on that in Rhino:

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Though there are other (better, depending on your requirements) options through scripting (probably some plugins available as well).

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that could work but then every letter is separated as an individual element, you would have to regroup them somehow.

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i’ll give it a try, thanks!

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Wombat has a nice text outlines component. Then it will output each words outline as a branch, then you can group the word.

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oh nice, i didnt know about this one, i’ll be sure to give it a try!
Thanks!