Wilsons Sandbox

Hello all,

After lurking and much procrastinating I finally decided to give it a
try.

First I would like to thank the other forum members, especially
Rowland and tkat, who's
back and forth, pretty much got me off my duff and drawing. I'm a
fairly new convert to
the Mac platform and have been looking for a reasonably priced CAD
program. It will be
used primarily for non professional work. I'm mostly into HO model
railroading, with way
too many other interests.

I'm writing this before I actually try to upload anything but the
plan is to upload a 'practice'
drawing and a couple of photos. The drawing is a copy of a something
I drew up using
AutoSketch, which is a very distant cousin of AutoCAD and runs on
WinDoze.

The uploaded drawing represents something like ten or twelve hours of
'learning'
CADintosh along with lots of coffee and way too many bathroom breaks.
. .

I'm nowhere close to comfortable with CADintosh yet, but I think I
tried quite a few of
CADintosh's various functions and it seems to be a fairly powerful
drawing program with
serious potential. I agree with tkat, one of the things it does need
is an insert parallel
function for arcs. One thing I want to do with it is model RR layout
drawings and that
feature will make drawing track a whole lot easier.

I did loose control of layers, probably my fault, and gave up on
layers for this session. I
also had it crash a couple of times, and I confess to dismissing the
bug report feature as I
was more interested in drawing. I will in the future cooperate and
send them in.

For the record I'm running CADintosh on a G4 Power Book (12")(Tiger
OS) and I think I'm
definitely going blind as a result . Need a bigger display, at
least for drawing.
CADintosh is release 5.3.1.

Think I'll shut up and try to upload this stuff.

Roland

At 2005-05-30 02:09 +0000 Roland Morin wrote:

>I'm mostly into HO model
>railroading

Roland - no doubt you'll have noticed the library
file "Märklin M-Gleise" which appears to contain
track layout segments. Probably not much use if
you don't use Marklin track, or if you
scratchbuild rather than use commercial track
segments.

I'll have a look at your uploaded file and see if
I can offer any snesible comments.

regards

Rowland
--
| Wilma & Rowland Carson
| ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ...

On May 29, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Roland Morin wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> After lurking and much procrastinating I finally decided to give it a
> try. 

Hey! New blood & another "Roland".

@ least w/ the variance in spell'n we won't hafta specify R1 or R2.
;^)

>
> ................ I'm a
> fairly new convert to the Mac platform and have been looking for a
> reasonably priced CAD
> program.........

Just wait 'til ya get go'n on the Mac. Ya'll wonder what took you so
long. My Lady's on a PC w/ XP2 & when ever I visit I cry in
frustration - W/ THE PC!! [sniffsniff]. That be'n said, I did hafta
go buy a PC to run BobCAD as there doesn't seem to be any reasonable
alternative for CAD/CAM on a Mac.

>
> .................I'm nowhere close to comfortable with CADintosh yet,
> but I think I
> tried quite a few of CADintosh's various functions and it seems to be
> a fairly powerful
> drawing program with serious potential. 

Eyup. It's a seriously esoteric involved exercise in complexity. It's
a fully loaded Kenworth 18 wheeler [that won't turn left] where all I
want my old B Prod S.C.C.A. Tiger to get from point to point.

Much too complex for my use. "Every thing to all people".

But just keep bash'n @ it. For me, it's com'n slowly slowly --- a lot
of right turns to go left. I can now sketch up client dwgs fairly
quickly to re-dimension them in the form my CNC likes to see. Like
start & end points of skew lines rather than start & angle.

Also "midnight" mind buzz helps. Several times I've figured the ans to
a pblm out that way.

> I agree.......... it does need is an insert parallel
> function for arcs.  One thing I want to do with it is model RR layout
> drawings and that feature will make drawing track a whole lot easier.

Hear, hear!! Rowland has a nice solution of do'n a circle to mark the
ctr for the off-set arc. Still clumsy but doable.

If I can break outta here @ a reasonable time 2nite [It's a bitch when
yer yer own boss --- Mr. Legree can be a nasty S.O.B.] I'm gunna play
w/ layers.

How about hav'n a "construction" layer where ya can o'lay a circle on
the arc of the actual dwg? Then, if the ctr will show and auto-select
on the dwg layer, ya can do an Arc->ctr,point or Arc->ctr, rad [catch
from previous pop up menu for same value [gauge]]. Then delete or hide
const layer for final o/p.

That shud work. A bit more refined but still not very elegant.

OK, break's over --- back to the machine.

Tkat,

You might be a racer if................
You thoroughly enjoy showing the tailgater how to drive around a
highway off-ramp.