Update 2 for Dynamo for Civil3D is out - Awesome. Keep those updates coming. I’ve been itching to have an MTEXT node and now we have it. … But unlike the TEXT node, there’s no port for Rotation? And you can’t turn on the background mask? Am I missing something? Thanks

Thanks Paolo, I had a hunch that Transform might do it, came back to share how I did it and you beat me to it :slight_smile: The background mask is what I was really looking forward to with MTEXT, but even without, Update 2 will streamline my user’s experience. [mtext_rot_1] [mtext_rot_3]

Wow, so the rotation works fine … but you can’t set the text height like we can with TEXT. I suppose I’ll see if transform can handle that with scaling, rather than making my users set it (or the default style) manually

@suraky I don’t mean to be rude, but please, before posting a question look into the nodes… [image]

Thanks Paolo, I appreciate your help. However, MText.SetHeight does not change the text height. It does the same thing as the height input port on Mtext.Create … changing the height of the text box, not the text within. … I could spend all day listing off inconsistent and vague names and descrip…

… so ultimately, instead of just using some simple ports on Mtext.Create to use a rotation and an actual text height, at my insertion points, I’ve had to create the mtext at the origin, and use object.transform with coordinatesystem.scale, coordinatesystem.rotate, and coordinatesystem.translate to…

Is it wrong to set it with .SetParameter? This discussion was helpful to see that no matter which node I used I would be laking properties, either the attachment, or rotation+textheitght. Ultimately it was easier to create the text with the original node as the rotation AFTER placing it with the co…

@gcarvalhoDF there is a node in the Civil 3D Toolkit to create MText with a rotation input, maybe that will help?

It has rotation input, but it doesn’t have attachment input. And neither of them has Background editing. Everything is working fine, I was just wondering if is it wrong to set it with the SetParameterValue blocks. I know Python, but I still need to learn how to code with the API. Just did some basi…

[image] gcarvalhoDF: I was just wondering if is it wrong to set it with the SetParameterValue blocks. Nope, not wrong…whatever works :slight_smile:

Update 2 - MTEXT ... Rotation?

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Paolo_Emilio_Serra1 January 9, 2020, 6:56pm 2

@suraky you can transform the objects after the creation

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Update 2 - MTEXT ... Rotation?

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