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My home PC is at the end of it's life and I recently made the decision to move to a Mac mainly because it could also be a music server and stay up for months...
John Clutterbuck
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Aug 1, 2008
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30628
What video card does the crossover program think it is using?/ What driver is the video card using?? Did you install 3pi inside the new os or copy it from your...
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Aug 1, 2008
11:43 am
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... driver is the video card using?? Did you install 3pi inside the new os or copy it from your windows system?? ... CrossOver (which is based on Wine) seems...
John Clutterbuck
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Aug 1, 2008
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30630
I forgot to mention that I installed 3PI from within CrossOver by runner the installer exe....
John Clutterbuck
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Aug 1, 2008
11:58 am
30631
... no issues in 2D mode however when I switch to 3D I get an error dialog message of: 'wglMakeCurrent failed' and a blank black window. It switches back to 2D...
Randy Pfeiffer
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Aug 1, 2008
3:12 pm
30632
Two things, One, it is rather odd to want to keep a computer "up for months without rebooting" as it is just burning energy while you're not using it and all...
Rick Blanchard
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Aug 1, 2008
4:17 pm
30633
I am using VMWare Fusion solidly on a MacBook Pro. Same config as JMRI author Bob Jacobsen. Also the latest Fusion Beta is now able to run Auran Tranz 2006...
Lee T Davy
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Aug 2, 2008
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Thanks guys for the feedback. One of the reasons I wanted the Mac was that it was to be a music server which is a Sonos system which feeds several zones. The...
John Clutterbuck
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Aug 4, 2008
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I am having a couple of problems and I am not having a lot of luck finding the answers in the manual. How do you rotate an object such as a line. I am unable...
Jerry Hampton
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Aug 4, 2008
9:53 pm
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Under Tools, Options, Drawing Style, try setting it to Allow Both mode. Set the sensitivity to the 3rd click from the right. ... From: Jerry Hampton...
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trainman032003
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Aug 4, 2008
11:19 pm
30637
Is the line length locked in the ODW? Neal _____ From: 3rdPlanIt@yahoogroups.com [mailto:3rdPlanIt@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of unclebump2008@... Sent:...
Neal Visser
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Aug 5, 2008
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Hopefully one of the responses regarding freehand drawing solved that problem. To rotate all you have to do is select the object that you want to rotate and...
Roderick
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Aug 5, 2008
2:02 pm
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... John, Just to back up information you've already received, I'm running 3pi (and a couple of other specialized windows programs) on XP under VMWare's...
bizbeblu
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Aug 5, 2008
2:23 pm
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I guess I used the wrong word when I said rotation. What I want to be able to do is to pivot a line around a point. This arose when I trie to extend a line...
Jerry Hampton
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Aug 5, 2008
9:18 pm
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Jerry, When you select free hand rotation, a line will appear. One end is on the center of the object and you can move the other end to rotate the object....
Ken Berry
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Aug 5, 2008
11:11 pm
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Ken I have used the tool you refer to but I have never been able to move the end that marks the center of rotation to a different location Jerry ... on ... the...
Jerry Hampton
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Aug 6, 2008
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Jerry, Click on it and drag - should work. Do you have your sensitivity setting too tight (options/tools/slider)? You can also alt-click on it and it will snap...
Rick Blanchard
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Aug 6, 2008
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Jerry, I thought maybe I was imagining things in my old age, but I think I know what is wrong. You can change the center oif rotation if that is the first...
Ken Berry
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Aug 6, 2008
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Ken That did it. It was also suggested off line that I select the line, move it then ue connect direct Jerry ... you ... move ... is ... rotate ... to ... ...
Jerry Hampton
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Aug 6, 2008
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Thanks everyone for the helpful feedback. I located a Windows XP SP2 disk, installed a trial version of Parallels on my Mac Mini and 3PI and it all seems to...
John Clutterbuck
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Aug 6, 2008
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Thanks Jerry. That is so cool. You can set the center of rotation to anywhere. It does not have to be on the object selected or on any object. It can be any...
Hoilman, Kent A
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Aug 6, 2008
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30648
How are curved backdrops created in 3rdPlanIt? I tried drawing a circle and changing the line style to 1/4" plywood, but this did not take....
cutlerjm3
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Aug 7, 2008
6:10 pm
30649
They are drawn as contour lines and then extruded into a 3D shape. But you have to tilt them up to put the texture on them as you are looking at the face. Then...
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Aug 7, 2008
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I just installed 3rdPlanIt Release 8.05, and configured it for all users (Windows XP). When I double-click on a ".3pi" file as a normal user, the application ...
cutlerjm3
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Aug 7, 2008
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... OK, I got it to be an extruded 3D shape, but I don't understand what you mean by "tilt them up to put the texture on them as you are looking at the face....
cutlerjm3
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Aug 7, 2008
9:46 pm
30652
... When you extrude an object, it is always in the Z direction (up). You have to tilt the surface to be horizontal to apply a texture, but it will remain...
Ken Berry
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Aug 7, 2008
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This thickness is the amount you want to extrude the object, ie. the height of the?backdrop. The extrusion happens along the Z axis. If you want a texture to...
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Aug 7, 2008
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Having got a working layout (SM32) for my projected garden line I am now starting to populate it with rolling stock. As a first step, to check out how it all...
Peter Finney
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Aug 8, 2008
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... Nice thought, but each car supports only two trucks. There was once a discussion about a Schnabel car, which seems to have a similar truck scheme. I came...
Randy Pfeiffer
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Aug 8, 2008
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:07:53 -0700, "Randy Pfeiffer" ... But I am not suggesting that this locomotive will have more than two trucks in other words can a truck...
Peter Finney
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