Can't extrude/join multiple lines of text

[RogerInHawaii]

I'm making a name plate for a project. The name plate has several lines of text. If I create a single Text object in a sketch and use that to extrude/join the text to the underlying base plate, it works fine.

But if I have a text object in a sketch that has multiple lines of text and try to do the same kind of extrude/join, I get a failure. I tried several times with different sets of text, and that seems to be a problem, that Fusion can't handle multiple lines of text within one text object.

Is there a solution to this, other than splitting the text into single-line text objects? Frankly I find that approach to be quite difficult since it is so incredibly difficult (impossible) to reposition text objects in a sketch. Grab a part of it and it insists on rotating the text instead of just moving it.

I've attached the pertinent Fusion 360 file.

[RogerInHawaii]

Further testing seems to indicate that it's NOT an issue with multiple lines of text within a text object but rather it has trouble handling the "rry" portion of the word "Ferry". It seems to see "rry" as all one thing or maybe overlapping parts. I changed the font from bold to not-bold and that seemed to assure that the letters in "rry" were far enough apart to handle them as separate, non-overlapping objects.

This is the first time I've ever encountered this with text objects in Fusion.

But there's still significant difficulty in repositioning or moving around a text object within a sketch. No matter what I grab to try to move a text object, it always rotates instead of just moving.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Take a look at the Screencast for some suggestions on moving a sketch Text object to help you maintain orientation and make it easier to move.  Also I mentioned text character spacing to help prevent overlapping of letters.

[RogerInHawaii]

EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! FATASTICALLY EXCELLENT!

Thank you for taking the time to respond and explain. That really helps a lot.