Can Children on path be broken apart?

[mcdonaldzachary]

Hello when using children on path for example the text on arc demo. Can the path information of individual characters be accessed? I've tried my best to break them apart or access internal arrays but haven't had any luck. I'm specifically looking for location and bounding box
Thanks
https://maker.js.org/playground/?script=text-on-path

[danmarshall]

Yes, you can get characters of a Text model by their index. I've added this to the end of the function:

This gets the first character by [0] , gets its bounding box, then creates a rectangle of it:

  const m = makerjs.measure.modelExtents(this.models.topText.models[0]);
  const bbox = new makerjs.models.Rectangle(m);
  this.models.bbox = bbox;

[mcdonaldzachary]

I would have never guessed that's how you get those arrayed items. Thank you so much I'll give that a try . I'm sure it'll work great

[danmarshall]

That's good feedback, there should be more documentation for the Text model.