[Solved] Centering Substring Text
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[Solved] Centering Substring Text
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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.4.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.8.2
Qt version: 5.12.8
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
I made a cube in sketcher that had its corner constrained to the origin. I then made a 6 using the shapestring tool in the draft workbench and attempted to center it on the cube's face. It didn't look centered though and I put the 6's position to (0,0) and it wasn't flush against the y-axis almost like it's actual position was (1,0) or along those lines.
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.4.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.8.2
Qt version: 5.12.8
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
I made a cube in sketcher that had its corner constrained to the origin. I then made a 6 using the shapestring tool in the draft workbench and attempted to center it on the cube's face. It didn't look centered though and I put the 6's position to (0,0) and it wasn't flush against the y-axis almost like it's actual position was (1,0) or along those lines.
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Last edited by Kirasuna on Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:30 am, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Centering Substring Text
Hi and welcome to the forum!
Please don't edit your FreeCAD infos, we forum regulars are used to the way it looks if you just paste it, and we can see immediately what we want to see.
Are you talking about a ShapeString (not substring)? Then it may depend on the font, where the letters are placed. Your file did not contain any such string so it is difficult to help.
Please don't edit your FreeCAD infos, we forum regulars are used to the way it looks if you just paste it, and we can see immediately what we want to see.
Are you talking about a ShapeString (not substring)? Then it may depend on the font, where the letters are placed. Your file did not contain any such string so it is difficult to help.
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Re: Centering Substring Text
Sorry about the FreeCAD info, fixed that up. I did mean ShapeString. Also, I am not sure how to get the string to stay there but the number was flush against both edges of the bounding box so I don't think that is the problem. Is there a way I could keep the string in the file or any other info I could provide to help?chrisb wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:29 pm Hi and welcome to the forum!
Please don't edit your FreeCAD infos, we forum regulars are used to the way it looks if you just paste it, and we can see immediately what we want to see.
Are you talking about a ShapeString (not substring)? Then it may depend on the font, where the letters are placed. Your file did not contain any such string so it is difficult to help.
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Re: Centering Substring Text
Perhaps you uploaded the wrong file, but there is no shapestring at all in it. Usually the font is a problem between different systems, but if you use one of the Ubuntu system fonts we should be able to reproduce.
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Re: Centering Substring Text
Without some horizontal spacing the characters would be too close together. Should it be space to the left or space to the right or space to both sides? It looks like the space is to both sides. It's interesting the bounding box doesn't show the margins.
Re: Centering Substring Text
I'll reupload the file with the Ubuntu font. The font I used this time was /usr/share/fonts/truetype/abyssinica/AbyssinicaSIL-Regular.ttf
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Re: Centering Substring Text
I have moved the ShapeString into the body and attached it with mode Inertia2-3 to the face. Then I moved it by half of the BoundBox to the left and down. This works almost but not quite:
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Re: Centering Substring Text
Could be there is some kind of cyclic dependency when referencing the boundbox by the object of the boundbox.
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Re: Centering Substring Text
You need to also allow for "bearingX" (the empty space in the "em square" before the actual shape): EDIT: this calculation is rubbish. Don't know what I was thinking. WF
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>>> s = App.ActiveDocument.ShapeString
>>> ss = s.Shape
>>> bearingX = ss.BoundBox.XMax - ss.BoundBox.XLength
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Re: Centering Substring Text
No, the XLength should not be affected by the positon of the object. Stay clear of using XMin or XMax, which would probably introduce a cyclic issue.TheMarkster wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:08 am Could be there is some kind of cyclic dependency when referencing the boundbox by the object of the boundbox.