@gaieus said:

Hi Joe,

Hey Gaieus,

@unknownuser said:

Use TIG's tool.

I'm using it now and in this 2D instance those tools are quite handy.

@unknownuser said:

However you missed an important point with the 3D Text tool (in 2D): you should hide its edges.
As for the 1/16" size; that's about under the limitation SU can create a face from those tiny edges.

Thanks, I tried it all sorts of ways, it still looks like warmed over bird crap. Maybe I'm expecting too much but if I can take a pencil and a piece of paper and draw something in iso and then label the parts, the text looks nice and if I move that piece of paper around the text goes with it and doesn't change. That's what I'd like to see. TIGs' 2D text tool is doing that for me just fine.

Appreciate the help fellas, and thank you, TIG, for the swell plugin. May all the hair you comb outta your head be enough to weave a blanket.

@tig said:

My 2Dtools includes 2Dtext which lets you place 'flat' 3d-text onto a surface.
You have control over its font, size, style, color, etc and of course its 'text'.
After you have placed it select+right-clicking lets you edit it - changing its text or other properties.

Hey Tig,

Where can I find this plug-in? I'll be glad to give it a try.

@joewoodworker said:

@mitcorb said:

If I was doing a model with text that needed to stay put, I would use 3d text under the Tools drop down menu.

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Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Alrighty, I just now performed the deed and the 3D text moves with the model. However, the text can't be edited. Even with the 3D text set at an extrusion level of 1/16" it looks nasty when the model is zoomed to extents. Further, if you don't wish to have an extrusion depth then the 3D text isn't filled, which means I have to go back and fill it. I'm afraid none of those options are, well...options to me.

I simply don't understand why SU can easily align a dim that can move with the model but text cannot.

The floor plan model I was talking about can be seen here - http://twistedknotwoodshop.com/ttkwreturns.htm

Scroll down a little - what I ended up having to do was make sure no changes were needed then zoom the model to fill the screen, then add the text then export the model in a 2D graphic. That's a whole lot of time being pissed away.

I will try the 2D plugin suggestion and see what springs out but I'm not overly optimistic

@mitcorb said:

If I was doing a model with text that needed to stay put, I would use 3d text under the Tools drop down menu.

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Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Alright, I've had enough - I am tired of corraling the text then rounding them up on my models.

I would like to wake up one morning and find lockable text in my SketchUp-mas stocking.

Let me describe the situation. You have a nice model and you place some lovely text on it. Suddenly you notice something is wrong with the model, you zoom in to change it. You zoom back out and all that text you placed is now over there in La-la Land and you have to go get it and bring it back.

If I can align dimensions and have them move around with the model, why can't we do that with text notations?

@unknownuser said:

I've had to arrange my toolbars for the third/fourth time today. Really annoying! I hope this will be fixed soon so one can lock your tools (menu top and left) in position so in the even of something happening you don't have to rearrange them afterwards.

I think this has been mentioned (requested) in the wishlist before, hope it gets the attention it deserves.

Hey Juju...

Ummm, why don't you set the screen up as you'd like to see it everytime by turning it into a template? You set up everything, the units, the toolbars, the background get rid of Brice...everything you want. The next time you launch SU...presto! It's the way you want it.

Greetings to all who read this,

I sorry if this has been covered before but I did perform a search. Maybe I worded the search wrong?

I've been a SU user since v4 and this is something that has always bugged me but I was always afraid
to ask.

How can text be locked to a model so that it's static and moves with the model? For instance, let's say
I do something amazingly simple like a floor plan. Part of said floor plan has areas where I want to place
text notations. Ok?

Now, I'm looking at the floor plan from top view and the model fills up my entire screen. I place text where
I want it and all is looking nice. Suddenly, I notice something is drawn wrong. I zoom in to change it but
zooming back out the text is now spread out all willy-nilly like and no where close to where it's supposed to be.

Isn't there a way to lock text in the place you want it to be?

Joe Johns,
Pulling my hair out in the Twisted Knot Woodshop, Ronan, Montana