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Draft ShapeString

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Draft Text, Part Extrude

Beskrivning

The Draft ShapeString command creates a compound shape that represents a text string. This shape can be used to create 3D letters with the Part Extrude command.

The Draft ShapeString command is not intended for standard text annotations. The Draft Text command or the Draft Label command should be used for that purpose.

Bruk

For Windows users: please read the Font file selection on Windows paragraph first.

  1. There are several ways to invoke the command:
    • Press the Shape from text button.
    • Draft: Select the Drafting → Shape from text option from the menu.
    • BIM: Select the Annotation → Shape from text option from the menu.
  2. The ShapeString task panel opens.
  3. Click a point in the 3D view, or type coordinates.
  4. Optionally press the Reset Point button to reset the point to the origin.
  5. Enter a String.
  6. Specify the Height.
  7. To select a font do one of the following:
    • Enter a file path in the Font file input box.
    • Press the ... button and select a file.
  8. Press the OK button to finish the command.
  9. Optionally change the DataJustification of the ShapeString. See Properties.

Options

Relative font path

introduced in version 1.1

It is possible to specify a relative path for the font file. For this the FreeCAD document must have been saved at least once.

Some examples:

Font file selection on Windows

On Windows access to the default font folder is restricted. This affects the font file selection for ShapeStrings. There are three cases in FreeCAD where a font file for ShapeStrings can be specified: in the ShapeString task panel, when changing the DataFont File property of a ShapeString, and when specifying the default font file in the Draft Preferences.

Pressing the ... button and then selecting a file from the default Windows font folder is not possible when using the native file dialog. There are a number of workarounds:

See the Preferences paragraph below for the location of the mentioned preferences.

Notes

Tutorials

Preferences

See also: Preferences Editor, Draft Preferences and Std DlgParameter.

Properties

See also: Property editor.

A Draft ShapeString object is derived from a Part Part2DObject and inherits all its properties. It also has the following additional properties:

Data

Draft

The height of the red rectangle (solid line) is equal to the cap height.
The height of the green rectangle (dashed line) is equal to the shape height.
The corners, the midpoints of the edges, and the center of the rectangles
match the 9 justification options: Top-Left to Bottom-Right.

Scripting

Skript

To create a Draft ShapeString use the make_shapestring method (introduced in version 0.19) of the Draft module. This method replaces the deprecated makeShapeString method. 

shapestring = make_shapestring(String, FontFile, Size=100, Tracking=0)

The placement of the ShapeString can be changed by overwriting its Placement attribute, or by individually overwriting its Placement.Base and Placement.Rotation attributes.

Example: 

import FreeCAD as App
import Draft

doc = App.newDocument()

font1 = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf"
font2 = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf"
font3 = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifItalic.ttf"

S1 = Draft.make_shapestring("This is a sample text", font1, 200)

S2 = Draft.make_shapestring("Inclined text", font2, 200, 10)

zaxis = App.Vector(0, 0, 1)
p2 = App.Vector(-1000, 500, 0)
place2 = App.Placement(p2, App.Rotation(zaxis, 45))
S2.Placement = place2

S3 = Draft.make_shapestring("Upside-down text", font3, 200, 10)
S3.Placement.Base = App.Vector(0, -1000, 0)
S3.Placement.Rotation = App.Rotation(zaxis, 180)

doc.recompute()


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