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The Text Component

Release: McStas 3.9 Draw a text

Identification

• Author: Emmanuel Farhi
• Origin: SOLEIL
• Date: Oct 10, 2026

Description

A text with given size and orientation. The text is drawn in upper letters.

Example: Text(text="SOLEIL", size=0.5, plane="XY")

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
text	str	Text to draw.
size	m	Size of text.	0.5
plane	str	"XY","YZ",or "XZ"	"XY"
pen_thickness	1	Stroke diameter as fraction of text size. 0 draws thin lines, >0 draws each stroke as a cylinder with spherical joints.	0.1

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate to clipboard
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for Text.comp.

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Generated on mcstas 3.10.0

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Last Modified: Friday, 23-Oct-2026 18:32:09 CEST