Technote: Text Emboss Problem:
Occasionally when trying to Emboss text in Inventor the command will fail. Most likely the problem will relate to intersecting lines for the font style..invariably it will tell you why it doesn’t work.
This can be very frustrating with few solutions other than reconstructing the font style would be apparent. However, there is a way to resolve this…well at least the particular font I am trying to use for the P-51 Mustang instrument panels. In a previous article, I had opted for an alternative to the MS33558 TTF as this font style is flawed.
I have now found something more compatible and it is called TGL0-17 ALT. This is actually very close to the MS font…however I have still encountered problems.
The solution is to first open the text editor in Inventor and select the font type, set the height, width and spacing. You may need to select Exact for the latter and type in a value to achieve the correct spacing instead of using the defaults. Once you are satisfied with the formatting close the text editor and try to emboss it. If the emboss fails move on to the next step.
Select and open the text editor again and this time highlight all the text, then copy and paste this into MS Word as Text Only. Refresh the font style by selecting an alternative and then select again the TGL0-17 ALT. Copy and paste back into the Inventor text editor, close it and voila now it will emboss.
Before you ask, I have absolutely no idea why this works only that it does in this case So next time you have a problem embossing text in Inventor try this workaround and see if that works for you.
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