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Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:38:41 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Joe Strout wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > New users would be well advised to look into TrackDraw instead... way more
> > features, extensible menus, and the format is XML rather than obscure opaque
> > object dumps that can't be imported by anything else.
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> Both seem to work only on Windows though. Pity it wasn't written in REALbasic;
> then I could just bug the author to click the "Mac OS" and "Linux" checkboxes.
> :)
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> Does anyone happen to know of anything available for the Mac?
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> Thanks,
> - Joe
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> P.S. It doesn't seem off-topic to me -- presumably using an app like this would
> really help you plan a layout where the diagonals line up properly.
The link I sent is the program I used to work out the diagonal and other layout
designs. I have not used the one LAR recommended but will try it out now. As far
as other programs I could not say, but you can all ways search Lugnet's
newgroups for more info on MAC's. Do you have virtual pc on your mac? if so then
you could use the wimdows version. That's all I know on MAC's. Sorry
Gallagher
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| (...) Having done a few experiments with real track, I used Excel to tell me whether particular combinations of track pieces would line up. Since the spreadsheet can do it, I used accurate figures for the track geometry. I then made tables of each (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting diagonal track to line up properly?
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| (...) Both seem to work only on Windows though. Pity it wasn't written in REALbasic; then I could just bug the author to click the "Mac OS" and "Linux" checkboxes. :) Does anyone happen to know of anything available for the Mac? Thanks, - Joe P.S. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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