Randy, There is a spurious line in the wall that does not fit right. Ungroup the four walls of your building. Select just the wall that does not fit and...
thanks Ken, found the doo-dad you were talking about and deleted. no change, so i looked at the axis measurement you mentioned, sure enough it was set at -2...
hey John, cherry mills is right beside cherry hill....not sure which was named for the other. what your looking for was on the other side of the tracks, a...
I would like to use a portion of a large track plan to do a "station diagram", e.g., a schematic of the track layout at a particular station, that I will post...
This afternoon I tried to start the program and was greeted by a promt to enter my user name and password because this was now the demo version. I've had it on...
... Sorry - what version is on the CD ??? The password system changed somewhere around going from 8.01 to 8.02 IIRC, and if the CD really is 8.00, then the...
Sounds like something happened to your register area. Did you use any 'cleaner' type programs on it? Two things - one, make sure you type in your name as on...
rs, You should be able to turn off all but the track layer and then select a big chunk dragging across the area. Group this and then do the copy/paste into a...
Hi Everyone, I have recently started using 3PI to plan my layout and have built the track plans in 2D and added elevations to the track so far. I would like to...
Thanks Rick, that's pretty much what I ended up doing, though I started with my "large" layout plan and deleted everything that wasn't relevant to the station...
Extending tangents from curves and curves from tangents is done with one of the line tools. Click the "+" icon and then the straight line icon on the left...
David, 3pi can make very realistic models. For instance, you can create scale lumber and then assemble a structure from scratch, so to speak. I'm going to...
I didn't use any cleaner programs, although this was making me consider it. It seemed to happen the same day I got some strange checksum error on boot, but...
hey folks, was trying to put more detail into a track plan. separated into layers by mainline, yard, siding, spur, and staging. in options, set "connect all...
Check that the layer properties are set to "Create new objects as track" Press Ctrl+D - the layers property window opens Double-click the layer in question and...
Hi Ken, Thank you for taking the time to help. All is clear. I used the crooked path tool and then converted it to a polygon. The object type is a contour...
I am running 8.06.004.1385 and I want to import dxf files. When I do File/New and try File/Import, the Dxf/DWG options is grayed out and I can't select it. I...
This version should already have the dxf option included. I just checked mine and it opened a dxf ok and the import wasn't grayed out. Not sure why yours isn't...
Does anyone know of a way to show the line dimensions of a wall so the dimensions are not document-wide? I want to be able to have some of the dimensions above...
Look for the file I uploaded with walls made as 3d extruded objects. Each wall has a line along the bottom so dimensions can be seen. ... From: scottall5rs...
It is very frustrating when trying to use a tool and it just bleeps at you. Every time this happens I have visions of Homer doing something stupid over and...
Hi, I am currently considering a purchase of 3rd Planit. Several things have hindered my evaluation of this software. Some things are far from obvious. In...
Hi Greg, ... Yes. The limit means that after 100 objects are in the drawing you can't DRAW any more of them with the toolkit. But you can still load them from ...