What do magenta (purple) drawing annotations indicate?

What do magenta (purple) drawing annotations indicate?

An annotation turns magenta when it is no longer associated with the 3D part. These annotations may need to be re-attached or re-created if necessary.

IronCAD prints high-resolution images slowly.

When printing resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024, it is typically faster to use Export Image, create a raster file and then print it from another application.

Convert to Solid fails to convert a facet model.

Convert to Solid typically only fails to convert complex freeform shapes (users occasionally want to load VRML or STL models of objects like cars or airplanes) The Convert to Solid function works best with analytic geometry (i.e., planes, circles, etc). Also, the ACIS kernel typically does better at this task.

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