I happened by a hobby shop this afternoon and saw a product called "Cadrail Junior." It was a CD, not a floppy diskette. Does anyone know what this product is,...
Hi guys, Just purchased Cadrail 8 and was going through the tutorials... I was working on doing the siding tutorial with one of the premade atlas n scale...
In a message dated 4/27/2004 7:52:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Jason, What page in the Cadrail User's Guide are you on wrt the tutorial you have asked...
Hi Joe, Thanks for the reply. The online tutorial: http://www.sandiasoftware.com/tutor8/Chapter%2010/10-railroad_design.htm Section called How to Draw a...
Hello everyone, Fairly new user to CadRail though I am fairly computer literate. I've been having some difficulty modeling out my bench. Example : The side...
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... the ... view. ... voila, ... seem What I would think you could do is to create your figures in one .crw file which you will use as a private library, then...
... 2010/10-railroad_design.htm ... try to ... I think you are looking at two different things, without knowing it <g> The turnouts in the library (at least...
Stephen, Yeah! I tried creating tunnel portals in 3D with a circular arch at the top. When I "stood" them up using the flip tool, the line and boxes moved, but...
All, On the Sandia page and their sister site Ghost Depot they elude to CadRail being able to convert pictures to a scale drawing much like the ones they have...
Harold, You can import a photo, such as a jpg or gif file, and then you can "draw" over the image. On Cadrail 7 this is under the File->Import->Load_Picture ...
Harold, As Keith explained, the key word here is that Cadrail gives you the ability to "TRACE" over photos as opposed to "CONVERT". So you load a bitmap photo ...
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May 1, 2004 2:07 pm
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Hi all, You can not flip up a circle, just lines. It just has not been implemented in the tool. I will add it to the wish list for future versions. Tom Sandia...
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Jason, Ok, here is the problem: a "TURNOUT" in Cadrail lingo is made of 3 lines as defined in the Figures-Turnout part (page 81) of the manual. In this case, ...
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May 1, 2004 2:07 pm
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Hi all, Welp, maybe I will elaborate on this some more. Cadrail really does not support Circles in 3d, from a true sense of the phrase. You can draw an ARC...
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... Thanks, Tom -- that clears things up. I didn't think about compatibility with previous versions, so I couldn't figure out why both types were turnouts. ...
I would like to take an opportunity to thank everyone for their input on this question. I think the most pertinant responce was to use rectangular openings as ...
Kert, Actually, I found out after that fact that it appears rr.com had put in place some SPAM blocking software and was a bit too aggressive in the initial...
In a message dated 5/24/2004 8:58:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... That is why people buy Cadrail as the principle RR CAD design tool !!!! Joe Brann Owner /...
Hi all, while I'm new to this group, I'm not new to Cadrail or model railroading (since 1947). I've been using Cadrail since the '90's, V.2 or 3. I recently...
Rick, I'm not sure what is going on since I have XP Prof. SP1 and version 7.11 of Cadrail. Although I never installed 7.00 I started with 7.01 and upgraded to...
On Jun 2, PeteC wrote: <I'm not sure what is going on since I have XP Prof. SP1 and version <7.11 of <Cadrail. Although I never installed 7.00 I started with...
... Rick, I upgraded to CadRail v8.02. Wonderful upgrade. I still haven't learned all the new tricks in the program, but it is a great upgrade from v7.11. I...
Hi, Jan: Can you provide a small drawing that illustrates the problem, or provide the procedure that you're using when you attempt to draw the points? Thanks, ...
Jan, I experimented a little bit with the points and got questionable results (at best). What I might suggest as an alternative: Use the line command to...
... I used "point on line" with a fixed distance along a line - the distance simply came out wrong. When using "distance/azimuth" or "distance/angle" the...
Hello Guys & Gals -- new to list -- cadrail since 95 ?I would like to take my drawings up to kinkos and use their 36 x 48 (E size) plotter to plot the drawings...
Bill, Sorry we do not have a Cadrail FAQ. You can check around the Sandia site: http://www.sandiasoftware.com/ or search this list's archives (though I don't...
