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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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"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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(...) ... (...) 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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(...) 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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