Why can't I extrude this text?

[cjshull]

Not sure what I did, but I can't extrude text anymore.  It's creating text as a low res raster of some kind with no sketch data..? What did I do?

It's acting as if it's not a proper font, but I'm using Helvetica... the most common font in the world.

[TrippyLighting]

I believe you have to explode the text first, which will convert the outline of the text into lines, splines etc. Then you can extrude it.

[HughesTooling]

 You should be able to extrude text directly without converting to curves, don't know why it not working for you. Can you upload the file? 

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@cjshull wrote:

Helvetica... the most common font in the world.

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Funny thing is I don't have that font on either of my computers so will not be able to help and as the font you have might be a different version it might work for someone else.

Mark

[yqliu]

Mark is right that we should be able to extrude a font directly. Peter's idea is good to help diagnose the problem. @cjshull, can you explode the text and see if there is any error? 

Richard