FCCircularText Issues

[leoheck]

I am trying to use this FCCircularText macro, it is a really cool macro to help to address this problem.

I just want to report some issues on version 0.19 2021/03/15

1. The window is not showing texts completely and the buttons are not sized properly.
2. Starting/Ending angles cannot be float numbers.
3. After clicking on Run, it is resetting the fields, this is not good when you are experimenting with different designs.
4. FCCircularText is so bad when looking on Plugins Manager. Plugins manager doesn't have any way to search for plugin names on that list. Having FC in front of the Plugin Name makes it hard to find on that list. Is it possible to rename it to "Circular Text" only?

I am attaching a picture of it to discuss how we could improve this.

Screenshot-20210325114330-703x744.png (88.72 KiB) Viewed 2392 times

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Branch: unknown
Hash: e8566f22bbeb0b7204e3c45519d0963e8881100b
Python version: 3.8.5
Qt version: 5.12.8
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.1
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

[M4x]

Regarding the search, you could've a look at the wiki to look through the macros.

[GeneFC]

It is best to contact the author, Mario52, to discuss any suggestions for the macro. Or at least ping him on the forum.

Nobody else is in a good position to help. Unlike core elements of FreeCAD the macros are completely controlled by the authors as long as the macros follow basic rules for working with FreeCAD.

Gene

[M4x]

Ping

[mario52]

hi
try the latest version 0.20 - 2021/04/05

1. The window is not showing texts completely and the buttons are not sized properly.

corrected in latest version also for the all style

2. Starting/Ending angles cannot be float numbers.

calcul in internal 4 decimal

3. After clicking on Run, it is resetting the fields, this is not good when you are experimenting with different designs. )

check the Reset checkBox (V0.19 only in Tools > parameter "switchResetFALSE=True" see Wiki)

4. FCCircularText is so bad when looking on Plugins Manager. Plugins manager doesn't have any way to search for plugin names on that list. Having FC in front of the Plugin Name makes it hard to find on that list. Is it possible to rename it to "Circular Text" only?

maybe lather

TamponFCCircularTexr00.png (40.98 KiB) Viewed 1882 times

for the moment i work for create un "Tampon" here Positif/Negatif

EDIT: 30/06/2021 13:09 Paris : change image for Positif/Negatif tampon

mario

[M4x]

Thank you very much, the last pic looks interesting too!

[kajoyner1]

I would like to try FCCircularText, but need to know how to load it. I am running FreeCAD 0.19, ver. 24291. When i go to Macro/Macros/User Macros/Macros/Addons, i do not see this one listed. Thanks in advance!

[GeneFC]

Check the links in Mario's signature line above. The macros can be found in github.

Gene

[chrisb]

It must be installed with the AddonManager before you can use it.

[kajoyner1]

I am running FreeCAD 0.19, version 24291 on Windows 10.
This is what I have done:
I went to the Macro FCCircularText - FreeCAD Wiki site: (https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Macro_FCCir ... t#Script_2).
From that page, I went to GitHub and downloaded the .zip file and unzipped it to the FreeCAD Macros folder. It had a long name composed of seemingly random characters. I re-named it: FCCircularText.FCMacro. I also copied the CircularText icon to that same folder.

Per chrisb 's comment above, when I go to AddonManager, I do not see it listed.

When I go to the FreeCAD dropdown menu: Macro/Macros, it shows up under User Macros. When I click on it the options on the right hand side are enabled. When I went to Addons... at the bottom right, I did not find it listed under Macros. Going back to the previous screen, I wasn't sure which to click and decided on "Execute", but can't see that anything has happened. My question: What do I do now?