Hi, I have been chartered to see if sufficient interest exists in the topic of layout design software to justify a discussion panel on the topic during the...
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Lloyd
hoguy@...
May 11, 2000 12:38 am
I would love to listen, but better yet a real hands on demo of three guys doing a side by side of the exact same thing in three competing products that would...
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Keith B. Thompson - Sun
thompson@...
May 30, 2000 7:57 pm
Hello, I've been trying to export a Cadrail drawing (in .DXF format) to be imported into AutoCad. The problems I am having are the layer colors and the units. ...
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Charles Irby
cirby@...
May 30, 2000 9:27 pm
Problem: Cadrail 7.11 - When using the divide-at-intersection' tool, followed by a 'delete' command, the entire object being divided disappears. Specific...
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Greg Moore
greg.moore@...
May 31, 2000 9:40 am
Hi Charles I get similar problems when trying to divide full circles. I find if I draw partial circles then it works ok. Also when I have 2 circles and use...
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Gary Waite
garywaite@...
May 31, 2000 3:28 pm
Chuck: Did you divide both ends of the arc? You didn't say, however, you have to do two divides to make two acrs, that way you can erase only the correct ...
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Hans Bogaards
j.b.h.bogaards@...
Jun 1, 2000 1:59 pm
Hi! I'm using Cadrail 7.11, and I have a problem with the 3D view: The drawing doesn't appear in the 3D window. I don't know what I did that causes this... It...
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Pat and Dave
patndave@...
Jun 1, 2000 11:59 pm
Hi Hans, I doubt that I have your answer but I had the same question when I started familiarizing myself with 7.11. (I'm not fully familiar with it yet either!...
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Hans Bogaards
j.b.h.bogaards@...
Jun 2, 2000 12:48 pm
Hi Dave, ... either! ... Yep, all the layers are selected, and I did click the update button. And no, I am not insulted, nor(e?) is my intelligence ;-) ... of ...
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Paul J Claffey
claffp@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:49 pm
Dave, Draw a circle the diameter of the post. Use the Divide into Segments tool to divide the circle into say 24 segments. Use the Create Object Tool and...
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Pat and Dave
patndave@...
Jun 7, 2000 11:56 pm
Hi Guys, I want to thank Paul Claffey and Hans Bogaards for responding to my plea for help with my drawing of a 3D post. I struggled with it for a while but...
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Hans Bogaards
j.b.h.bogaards@...
Jun 8, 2000 7:04 am
Hi gang, I just got an answer from Tom, and it turns out that that the problem was caused by a line with an elevation of 25453 centimeters. Correcting the ...
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Pat and Dave
patndave@...
Jun 13, 2000 12:15 am
Hello fellow CR users, I've been experiencing difficulty with the Trim at Endpoint tool in several drawing files of mine. Depending on which file (drawing) I'm...
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Keith B. Thompson - Sun
thompson@...
Jun 13, 2000 5:36 pm
Dave, What version of CR are you using? I don't use Auto-trim to often (i tend to forget it's there) but when i have i've not had any problems. I'm using 7.11....
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Pat and Dave
patndave@...
Jun 17, 2000 12:06 pm
Hello CR-users, Tom at Sandia Software solved the problem I was having with the Trim at Endpoint tool in my version 7.11. It was quite simple really, I was...
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Jeff Scarbrough
jeff@...
Jun 24, 2000 12:58 am
I'm trying to discover the properties of a good spiral, and I have a question regarding Cadrail's drawing and properties thereof... I have an arc with a radius...
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Sandia Software
tracks@...
Jun 24, 2000 2:50 pm
Jeff, Once you set the delta angle (by fixing the tangent and the tangent to the arc) and the distance of the end of the spiral (by the end of the connecting ...
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Norman V Suydam
nsuydam@...
Jun 24, 2000 4:18 pm
... Jeff, It looks like you are trying to force one too many 'givens' on the problem. By stating the SC location, radius and offset you have an unequal spiral...
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Jeff Scarbrough
jeff@...
Jun 25, 2000 11:37 pm
At 09:51 AM 6/25/00 +0000, you wrote: ... That's what I thought...that the combination I was picking of delta and offset was causing the SC to be smaller than...
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Andrew Waldo
Virgiliano@...
Aug 6, 2000 2:48 am
Hi Folks! I've had CADRail for a couple of years now though I've not become an advanced user. The learning curve has been steep in relation to my time ...
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jerry snyder
jerrys@...
Aug 6, 2000 12:17 pm
Andrew, I use CadRail to draw model train layouts and to make drawings for small projects to make on my ShopSmith. For the model railroads, I have been unable...
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Tom Troughton, MMR
tomt491@...
Aug 6, 2000 5:03 pm
Hi Andrew, I like Jerry also use CADRail Ver 7.11 to draw structures, mostly for my Sn3 scale layout, but also once for the 1'=12" house we live in. I was...
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John Dennis
jdennis@...
Aug 12, 2000 6:32 am
Hi list, I have drawings which have a bunch of layers I don't need, mainly caused by inserting figures from one drawing into another. I cannot fond a way to...
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Ernie Fisch
ernfisch@...
Aug 12, 2000 4:01 pm
In <oqr9pskfd0ht1jk1povkbuq5dlb1cnr0et@...>, on 08/12/00 ... John, Just turn off the layers you want to keep leaving only the ones to be deleted on the...
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John Dennis
jdennis@...
Aug 13, 2000 7:14 am
... I am actually trying to delete a layer form a drawing. I have found myself with lots of layers, many of them with no defined objects, and these "empty"...
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Sandia Software
tracks@...
Aug 13, 2000 2:18 pm
John, There is not an easy way to remove a layer definition. However, if you define the entire drawing as a single figure (use Create Figure with the Fence...
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Sandia Software
tracks@...
Aug 13, 2000 2:28 pm
John, A follow up to my last response. I have not tested this and as I think deeply here are some possible side effects. Oh yeah, first off, after importing...
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Joebrann@...
Aug 13, 2000 4:14 pm
Tom, What would happen if you: 1) deleted all the objects from the layer(s) that are no longer wanted, and then saved the file. 2) Opened a new file and as the...
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Sandia Software
tracks@...
Aug 14, 2000 2:13 pm
Joe et al, This may work, but skip the Merge, just use Import- Layers and styles with the original drawing open to import the new drawing layers only (no...
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Webb Pfingsten
webbpf@...
Aug 20, 2000 1:16 am
I am testing the CadRail version 7 demo. I like many of CadRail's features but am having great dificulty with benchwork. I am trying to construct an N-Trak...
