FreeCAD : Lattice2 02: Easily make text / objects follow a circle path. Beginners Guide

Part two of our guide into FreeCAD Lattice 2 workbench ventures into easily manipulating text and objects into a circular arrangement allowing us to wrap it around another object or follow a circular path. We will again be using a polar array but this we are going to use compounds and arrays of objects including text. We learn what an array or compound is, how to create one and how freeCAD not just Lattice WB has a number of array manipulation tools. We finish by creating a bangle with our text wrapped around it allowing it and the text to be full parametric.
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[@Herrcookiekiller]

Mango Jelly saving the day once again! Keep up the great work!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Glad to help 😊

[@tenlittleindians]

I said it before; this is a powerful workbench.
FreeCAD now reminds me of the original Google SketchUp just before Google sold it and it was no longer free!
There were so many developers climbing on board that it seemed like you could add another plugin everyday. I think "Lattice" was even the name of one of those plugins.
Just when I thought we were going to have a piece of free software that was viable even for business applications Google did the unthinkable and sold it to a private entity.
While the initial price was not a deal breaker; all those independent developers jumped ship like fleas jumping off a dead dog.
It should have been a kiss of death moment but SketchUp lived on, more like a walking corpse than a living, breathing piece of software.
Long live FreeCAD!

[@ShamanthS13]

What an incredible workbench! I never knew freecad had this level of designing capability! Awesome video as always, Thanks!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Only just scraping the surface with this workbench. Freecad just seems to be getting better and better. Glad your liking the videos and thanks for the comments 😁👍

[@mikemissesthefairway]

Wow! Incredibly powerful workbench, Lattice2 is! Very cool!

[@fransvanderwerf7485]

your vids are top quality, easy to follow and to the point in detail. You're the Best! 😀

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you for the kind words 👍👍😁😁

[@lagnat]

Is there any way to preserve the spacing between letters with non-monospaced fonts? In other words, distribute the objects in a way that the natural bounding box of each letter plus some spacing determines the placement of the next letter? Edit: The curves workbench technique would be good except that it distorts the text.

[@ccmoonie]

Great video. Whenever I populate the strings with individual letters, their order gets all messed up. For example, if I enter MANGOJELLY (each letter a separate string in the list) it renders as MGOAYLLEJN. The strings property shows the correct order. Have you run across this?

[@edderohanes4264]

Great video. Can you change the font in Lattice2? The font fields don't seem to be selectable? Are we stuck with FreeUniversal-Regular.ttf?

[@Miniellipse]

Brilliant! I’m running out of accolades. Lol

[@MangoJellySolutions]

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[@paolomina8302]

Hi. Is possible to do a circle more definited with more little faces around? How can I do it? Thank you. P.M.

[@specialservicesequipment393]

When I draw my circle in SKETCH then close the SKETCH. Then when I click on "create a linear array" I get the error: "Axis link must be an edge; it is a Wire instead."? I don't get what is going wrong.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Make sure you haven't got the sketch selected when you create a array

[@specialservicesequipment393]

@@MangoJellySolutions thanks, I figured that out last night finally.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

@@specialservicesequipment393 I think I may of answered your question on facebook (if your the same user)

[@dickmorris6310]

I've needed to place text around the edge of a disk like the lettering on a coin several times. I've been using the FCCircularText macro, but it isn't very intuitive and takes a lot of trial and error. This work bench appears to be a lot more capable and flexible. Thanks for putting the tutorial together. I have another project I'm working on and I'll put the Lattice 2 WB to work.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

It's a great workbench, like you I have been using that macro. Then I started to use the curves workbench to sketch on curve but this way is even more quicker. It's a great little workbench and only just scratched the surface. Glad you enjoyed.