Draft Text/en

Description

The Text tool inserts a piece of text at a given point in the current document. It takes the text size and color previously set on the Tasks tab.

How to use

1. Press the Draft Text button, or press T then E keys
2. Click a point on the 3D view, or type a coordinate
3. Enter the desired text, pressing ENTER between each line
4. Press ENTER twice to finish the operation.

Options

• Pressing CTRL will snap your point to available snap locations.
• To enter coordinates manually, simply enter the numbers, then press ENTER between each X, Y and Z component.
• Pressing ESC will cancel the operation.
• When editing the text, pressing ENTER or DOWN ARROW allow you to enter or edit a next line of text.
• Pressing UP ARROW allows you to edit a previous line of text.
• Pressing ENTER twice (thus leaving the last line empty) adds the text to the document and closes the editor.

Properties

• DATAPosition: The base point of the text block
• DATALabel Text: The contents of the text block
• VIEWDisplay Mode: Specifies if the text is aligned to the scene axes or always faces the camera
• VIEWFont Size: The size of the letters
• VIEWJustification: Specifies if the text is aligned to the left, right or center of the base point.
• VIEWLine Spacing: Specifies the space between lines of text
• VIEWRotation: Specifies a rotation to be applied to the text
• VIEWRotation Axis: Specifies the axis to use for the rotation
• VIEWFont Name: The font to use to draw the text. It can be a font name, such as "Arial", a default style such as "sans", "serif" or "mono", or a family such as "Arial,Helvetica,sans" or a name with a style such as "Arial:Bold". If the given font is not found on the system, a generic one is used instead.

Scripting

The Text tool can by used in macros and from the python console by using the following function:

makeText (string or list, [Vector], [screenmode]) 

• Creates a Text object, at the given point if a vector is provided, containing the string or the strings given in the list, one string by line.
• The current Draft color and text height and font specified in preferences are used.
• If screenmode is True, the text always faces the view direction, otherwise it lies on the XY plane.
• Returns the newly created object.

Example:

import FreeCAD,Draft
Draft.makeText("This is a sample text",FreeCAD.Vector(1,1,0))