Trying to change 512 texts uses to much resources even on an Apple M2 Mac

[AWSW-de]

Hi Thomas,

first of all MANY THANKS for this great plugin! You can't believe how much time it saved me on my last WordClock 16x8 project in meanwhile 11 languages and 3 fonts. =)

Describe the bug

• Currently I am working on my 2024 variant of my WordClock 16x16 which should have 4 different fonts on the front in different languages too.
• As shown in the picture there are 512 text fields containing 1 letter each which are feed through the parameters list of course. I import the content of the parameters list with the "Parameter I/O" plugin with the help of a .CSV file and save the project in Fusion.
• Then I open up your plugin and use OK to start the update process.
• On the 16x8 variant of the project it worked fine to update 3 fronts with 128 texts each at once within around 50 minutes per language.
• With the shown 16x16 variant it seems to be more complicated. After about 1 hour the attached resource warning shows up and Fusion stops working even on an Apple M2 Mac with 24GB of RAM.
• I already separated the 4 fronts to update 1 at the time with 512 texts only which helped to update 2 of the 4 fronts. Strange to me, because the difference between them is the used font and font size only, so it somehow seems to be related on the used font (?!?)...

Screenshots

Hope you have some hints for me how to solve this.

Thanks in advance and kind regards =)

Software

• OS: macOS 14.3.1 Apple M2 - 24GB
• Fusion 360 version: 2.0.18441 arm64 [Native]
• ParametricText version: 2.3.1 and 2.3.3

[thomasa88]

Hi, my intention with ParametricText is for it to fill in a small number of texts and I have not looked at how the performance scales. With that many texts I think you might be better of just creating an API script of your own, accessing each SketchText: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-265d4bb3-2e68-4edf-bd57-bb4d4204beb0

app=adsk.core.Application.get()
app.activeProduct.rootComponent.sketches[0].sketchTexts[0]

Of course, you will have to solve the problem of assigning texts in the correct order..

[AWSW-de]

Hi, thanks for your answer which I expected a little bit in advance. The link you provided seems to be dead, so I can’t follow it.
Thanks a lot and have a nice day. Kind regards. :)

[thomasa88]

The links break when they do updates. :S

Try searching for "SketchText.angle" on that page and then you can step back up to SketchText, if you feel like digging into some Python. :)

Closing this report.