[vtkusers] Text annotations in 3D window

Aashish Chaudhary aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com
Thu Jun 16 16:46:07 EDT 2011


Hi Wayne,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Wayne Christopher <wayne at 4raccoons.com> wrote:
> I would like to place text annotations at specific 3D points.  I can do this
> using vtkVectorText and vtkFollower, but the text appears with a specific
> size and orientation in 3D so when I move the camera it can be hard to read.

Yes, this is a known issue.

>  I would like the text to always be N pixels high and oriented correctly in
> the plane of the screen, but have its position fixed to a specific 3D
> location.

So I understood the first part. Can you describe what you exactly
meant by "oriented correctly"?


Are there any examples of this?    Thanks,
>
>    Wayne
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