chrisb wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:22 am
Does your plan include that all ShapeString geometry is available for sketching? That would sort of make a difference to other primitives.
My idea is that it will work like the PartDesign->Hole, And PartDesing->Revolution
1) Make a sketch. In this sketch you make a construction line where you want your text to be (this idiom exist in Revolution tool, and Hole tool)
2) Select sketch and press text tool icon
3) In text tool you can chose font and size, padding direction, padding length
3) The text will appear like in the screenshot
I am considering if it is possible for the tool to offer to instead generate a new sketch. That way the user could edit the sketch and pad it himself / or revolve or whatever. But that would be like an advanced option, And I am not sure how to make the users edits to the sketch parametric.
Edit:
The main use cases I see for this feature is when you want some kind of simple text on your part.
E.g an item number, an engraving, or perhaps a simple sign. My main priority is that the tool is both fast and self explanatory for this use case.
Stuff like sweeping and revolving is a bit gimmicky (I will not optimize the workflow for these usecases, although I don't mind supporting them in some way)