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    Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.

    Leaving them a sketch is a good idea, and I have found that if I make a config with the features suppressed and only show the sketches it works great for the drawing. However, I prefer to make the feature in the part, because if you only make a sketch in sheet metal and then fold/unfold the...
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    Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.

    I am using SW 2003 and windows 2000. I am trying to simulate labels and printing on parts. (such as shipping cartons, etc...)
  3. nate44

    Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.

    I am using a Dell Precision 530 with dual 2.20 ghz processors. I have a 64 meg video card and 1 gig of RAM. Some text seems to cut or extrude fine, but sometimes it takes forever (like 1/2 hour or more). I want to have about 50 words of text on my part, but this seems impossible. I have...

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