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| | | Track Designer models a pair of monorail upper and lower ramp parts as a single piece. Do you view this as a feature or a restriction? I can't recall seeing half of a ramp unconnected to the other half in a layout. Have you found a need for half a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Probably technically a restriction but not a very serious one. The only way I could see how to use half a ramp would be if you built your own reverser to surround it at the end so the monorail train didn't fall off when it got to it (say, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Paul Janssen
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| | | | | (...) one possible reason to have it seperate is that you could use the piece for esthetic reasons. You could simulate an entry down or up, and stop at that section. Having a stop-go right before makes this single ramp segment functional (so (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Cary Clark
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| | | | | | (...) ... (...) ... Here's what I came up with: The monorail parts file separately models the up and down ramps. So layouts containing up/down ramps have two part references, one for each half. The toolbar file contains a button that adds both (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | | (...) Another reason could be that it is not possible to connect any other monorail part between them. All other MR track have a male connector to the left and at female to the right. But the upper side of the lower ramp part has two male (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Cary Clark
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| | | | | | (...) ... I've gotten all of the monorail track modeled and working (sort of) in TrackDraw. Here's what I ended up with: - Most monorail track has a connection of type '1'. Type '1' just means that it mates with other monorail pieces of type '1'. - (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Help on Equation (Was: modeling monorail ramps) —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | It looks like the I could create quick mockups for the ramps if only I could calculte the radius of a thought circle made of MR ramps. Here's a triangle with a 90 deg's angle AB and the hypotenuse c equlas the radius: a=640 b=c-120 c=<unknown> That (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help on Equation (Was: modeling monorail ramps) —John Riley
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| | | | | | (...) I calculate c = 5300 / 3 = 1766.667 The math: c^2 = (c-120)^2 + 640^2 c^2 = c^2 - 240*c + 120^2 + 640^2 0 = -240*c + 424000 240*c = 424000 c = 424000 / 240 = 5300 / 3 = 1766.667 Hope this helps. John (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Help on Equation (Was: modeling monorail ramps) —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks, that was quick! I'm a little rusty when it comes to equations... :) /Tore (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Michel Magnan
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| | | | (...) The top and bottom ramp pieces are designed to fit together, they do NOT join up physically with any other of the monorail pieces. You may just as well design both together. Michel Magnan (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: modeling monorail ramps (TrackDraw) —Cary Clark
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| | | | (...) ... (...) ... The solution I came up with is that a single button press on the Monorail toolbar adds both ramp halves to the layout. The pieces are individually selectable, though. If a layout designer wants to 'dead-end' a monorail track run (...) (21 years ago, 19-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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