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    Question Text going across design!!!! help!

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    hi guys, noob here, been given since Friday to learn CAD, i need to have my work in the post tomos at the latest. my problem is text and plotting, heres a jpeg showing the issue, bottom jpeg (only printer available - lexmark P6350)

    when i view my project before plotting it is fine jpeg included.

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    I don't know what's causing this, but I have seen it before.
    I our case, the text was written as Multiline text (mtext). We tried to explode the text, and that actually solved the problem.

    Try to explode the text.

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    ok, gna sound stupid now, but how does one explode the text?

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    Click on the text and type explode. :-)

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    cheers mate, got it printed, one more question, can you think of any other dimensions or info i should include?

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    Maybe you should include the outer diameter of the rim?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slaraffenmann View Post
    Maybe you should include the outer diameter of the rim?
    Perhaps that would be givin' away a top secret?
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