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Posted by otadmin at May 8, 2024, 3:53:16 PM

Putting Labels on Furniture
I have boxes which I want to label. Have achieved this by putting in a Text, vertical orientation, visible in 3D view, move it until it shows at the surface of the box. Is ok but I am unable to group box (furniture) and text. Means text will not move with the boxes.

Question: Is there a better way to put labels onto boxes so that box and label become on piece? Learn how to use Blender?

Posted by hansmex at May 8, 2024, 5:25:53 PM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
Rename the box and activate the text with the Modify Furniture dialogue...
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Posted by Keet at May 8, 2024, 8:49:29 PM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
The suggestion Hans made is correct but it will only display in the 2D view, not in the 3D view.
If you want labels visible in the 3D view that stick to the box the only way is to add a texture to the top of the box with the label text. I doubt that is what you really want.
You can cheat a little by creating a very thin box with the label texture and place that on top of your original box. That way you can adjust the position of the "label". And you can group two boxes smile

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Posted by hansmex at May 8, 2024, 10:44:55 PM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
Excuses for too fast reading and missing the 3D...
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Posted by Daniels118 at May 10, 2024, 12:13:15 AM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
You should take a look at the evidence marker generator plugin. It isn't specifically designed for this purpose, but maybe is enough for your case.

Posted by otadmin at May 10, 2024, 8:32:46 AM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
Installed Evidencemarker-Plugin and it works as I wanted. Only need to smear a little blood onto the box to make it "evidence".

Two odd observations:
I can group box and marker. But when I select the group only the marker is selected and the two do not move together. When I select them both in 3D-view do they stick together when moved.

When I change the color of the label the text becomes invisible.

Posted by otadmin at May 10, 2024, 11:22:52 AM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
Please disregard my comment about moving a group. It is working, I must have made a mistake. Sorry!

Posted by sjb007 at May 10, 2024, 1:40:24 PM

Re: Putting Labels on Furniture
Likely you double-clicked the group. When you do this you "enter" the group for the purposes of editing within the group.Only click once to select the group, then pause and click-drag to move the group as a whole. HTH.

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