Draw Text in Gadget

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Draw Text in Gadget

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I've built a gadget to help reduce steps and to gain precision and time. I've gotten the lines drawn, now I would like to add some text to the layer I've drawn into (ala Draw Text tool). I don't see anything in the API documentation about this. Is it possible to do from a Lua script?

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Most of the Gadget API is for vector and toolpath creation; they do not in general duplicate the built in tools such as manipulating text.
Pity.

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Hi There,

I write full lines of test with my gadget.

Send me a emal message at james.l.anderson@outlook.com

Jim
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Here is what it looks like.
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TextTool.JPG
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Here is the current copy of the code.
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Many (belated) thanks Jim!
Be kind.

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CNCDaveToo wrote:
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:22 pm
Many (belated) thanks Jim!
No problem... Anytime :)
Thanks,
Jim

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I happened on this thread as I'm looking at an application that requires me to engrave approximately 180 name cards for place settings at a wedding reception. I figured LUA script should allow me to use a name list as input to generate a sequence of VCarve operations to do the carving in the font of choice (Bride's prerogative, of course).

I downloaded Jim's code and was surprised that it didn't use DrawText operations, but created simple stroke vectors for each character. Well, that's a great tool, but not what I need.

Has there been any progress on this such that the VCarve text tools can be used in this case?

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Check the Plate Production tool. It is in the bottom line of drawing tools. See Help-Help Contents for instructions.
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TomWS wrote:
Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:20 am
Has there been any progress on this such that the VCarve text tools can be used in this case?
As Mike says there is a tool in VCarve to do this already so you don't need a gadget.

Here's a video that shows how it works - https://www.vectric.com/support/tutoria ... ral_Topics

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Re: Draw Text in Gadget

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Thank you very much Mike & Adrian! This tool is very useful as well as cleverly named to hide it's function! :lol: :roll:

I'll have to play with this to see how I can adapt my 'production' model to fit its process. My original thought was to use precut name tags with a jig on the CNC router where I'd place a tag, one at a time, press a key, and that tag would be custom engraved with the next name in the list. I suppose that the plate production tool could be used to make multiple sheets and a LUA script could load them one at a time, but that seems a bit unwieldy.

I would welcome any suggestions you might have, but, this helps a lot and I'm sure I'll figure something out.

Actually, it seems that it would be very easy to use the 'cutout' layer to make a jig to hold my precut tags and use a slightly smaller version of that to hold the tags in the first jig. Then the process would be:
1. Load up the jig with blank tags,
2. tie down the hold down jig on top of that,
3. Cut the sheet,
4. Remove the tags and repeat.
Easy peasy!
Thanks again!!!!

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Re: Draw Text in Gadget

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CNCDaveToo wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:58 am
I've built a gadget to help reduce steps and to gain precision and time. I've gotten the lines drawn, now I would like to add some text to the layer I've drawn into (ala Draw Text tool). I don't see anything in the API documentation about this. Is it possible to do from a Lua script?

Hi Dave,

Have you looked at my "TextWriter.zip" code? I show how to set layer Name, Color, etc... in the code.
Thanks,
Jim

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