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| | | I realize that Track Designer has an elevation feature, but are there other sources of information on creating terrian for an L-Gauge train set? I have roughly an 11' x 11' room in which a shelf system is going. The layout is two modified dog bone (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Ed Andrews
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| | | | | (...) Here's a direct link to the current Track Designer layout. (URL) ignore the track alignment glitch at the mid-right. Thanks. (19 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —James Powell
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| | | | (...) Not really. TD is the best program to come up with a concept of how much area you have to cover, and then I would fill in from there using baseplates, bricks and BURPS as you posess to fill in how ever big a area you want (or can afford). (...) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Mike Walsh
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| | | | "James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:I7oxzL.Aww@lugnet.com... (...) other (...) area (...) bricks (...) afford). (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I have to disagree with this. IMNSHO TrackDraw (www.trackdraw.com) is much (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Cary Clark
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| | | | | (...) I'm happy to announce that TrackDraw now has accurate models for 9V, 4.5V, 12V, monorail, most baseplates and road plates in any color. And just today, Thomas Woelk uploaded a crater baseplate that looks pretty darn good. You can try it out by (...) (19 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Chio Siong Soh
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| | | | | | (...) Erm, are there samples of designs drawn with TDraw to help the needy? I have difficulty getting the curved part of a switch (points in UK) to join up with existing track. It seems that only the straight part of a switch will be accepted. So I (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Cary Clark
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| | | | | | In lugnet.trains, Chio Siong Soh wrote: ... (...) That's a great idea. It would be fun to turn all of the old Idea Book layouts into TrackDraw files for instance. That would be a neat addition to the release. If anyone has other interesting layouts, (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Chio Siong Soh
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| | | | | | (...) Hi, thanks, Cary. Tried it, works great! I'm sold on TrackDraw. Besides samples of track plans, user-friendly documentation would be appreciated in the release. Another idea is to have symbols of straight and curved tracks where we have cut (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | "Chio Siong Soh" <robodoc@fifth-r.com> wrote in message news:I7w86q.Mu6@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) have cut (...) Paint (...) You have a couple of options here: 1) There is limited drawing ability within TrackDraw so you can (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Cary Clark
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| | | | | | (...) ... (...) No question; the documentation needs a lot of work. For instance, the keyboard shortcuts merely says that "'Tab' alternates the last track added." Lame. That means nearly nothing, much less suggesting that 'Tab' will rotate the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Chio Siong Soh
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| | | | | | (...) Oops, sorry, should have been "(Like we can now do *for models* in Ldraw)". I was making an analogy between TrackDraw and LDraw - the ability to reproduce a train layout (TrackDraw) and a model (LDraw) through the respective data files. C S (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | (...) TrackDesigner has a (somewhat limited though) zoom function. And it's biggest plus : it will work under Linux (and probably MacOS X) using WINE, which is definately not the case for TrackDraw :( (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | "Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net> wrote in message news:I7w9Iu.wuF@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I'd argue that what TrackDesigner provides is not really a zoom. It is simply a choice of 4 scales of (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) I love TrackDraw. Every time I get a new copy of it, I marvel at how it's gotten even better. I play with it I marvel at how great it is and at the plethora of great features and gadgets it has. It never ceases to amaze me. Yet I still used (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Cary Clark
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| | | | | | | | In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote: ... (...) I don't recall saying this -- I probably did though, I just don't remember -- but what I meant to say was "I don't know how to do a Track Designer converter". I've tried a few times to get in touch (...) (19 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | | | (...) I use a virtual resolution for that, also makes it very easy to do screenshots so you can make GIF's or JPEG's of your layout. Virtual desktop resolution is nearly unlimited, and with the 1 pixel/stud res I can do quite large layouts. Our 9*4m (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Train Set Design (Help?) —Cary Clark
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| | | | In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote: ... (...) There is a project called Mono ( (URL) ) that will allow TrackDraw to run under Linux and MacOS X at some date in the future, if all goes well. Cary (19 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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