having been n AutoCAD user for many years when it came o getting a bit of software for doing some designwork I naturally opted for IntelliCAD, I now want to create some 3D lettering. I planned to start with some 2D lettering created with polylines(straight and curved) and then extrude along the z-axis for the simplest method, but apparently, following the extruding instructions in the help you can't do this any advice?

I don't know what the problem is. Extrude works just like it does in Autocad.