I’m attempting to design an oval sign in Carbide Create (710) using the text on arc functionality. Is this my best approach if I stay within CC and don’t use inkscape/illustrator? (I can go make the designs externally, just seeing if its possible in cc now)
I tried a single line of text but its arc is circle based from what I can tell. So I broke each word and adjusted to line up with a reference line.
Is there a different way in cc?
That’s a surprisingly workable work-around for the limitation of the implementation only being for arcs or a circle.
The original request for text on curve was to be able to attach text to a curve…any curve. That would really be the best feature - similar to what other products (like Lightburn) do. You draw a curve; create some text; highlight both; click “Attach text to curve” and that’s it. So if it’s a squiggly line, the text follows the squiggly line - circle is circular - ovular is oval - etc. And if you edit the size / shape of the curve, the text stays with it.
The text on a circle implementation gets us part-way there - I’m hoping that the underlying code that enables the current function will be easily adjusted to flow on any curve…seems it should be.
This is a good method for text on a circle.
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Steven. I think your approach may be the best if you want to stay in cc. I found that the text on an arc right now means text on a circle.
So the text on a circle is a big step forward there is still some more to travel with cc
I have been using cc since early cc 3.x. The current v6 and v7 versions are light years ahead of 3.x
Kudos for what c3d has done so far.
Thanks Guy. We didn’t plan for CC to become what it has, so we didn’t lay the correct framework to start with. (We also made a huge technical mistake by depending on some immature technology) We expected to make something much more modest and then the company and the user base kept growing.
That’s the eventual plan. For most people, “a curve” is an arc, so it makes sense to make that really easy to do as the most common case.
We don’t really have the plumbing in the program right now for one object to watch and react to another object, which is what you’d need to keep the text and a curve synced up. We could probably knock it out semi-quickly now, but there are some other features that we’ve been thinking about that could benefit from that mechanism as well. We’d like to take some time to get it right and not paint ourselves into a corner.
Don’t you just hate having that problem? What a shame, what a shame.
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