John, Bob's not designing his track plan. He's trying to put it on his web site so we can all see it. If you reread what Bob said, he's starting by drawing it with pencil and paper. All the fiddling he's doing is to convert it to a digital image that he can upload. I started my professional life as a draftsman, and always drew my layouts that way, but it sure saves one heck of a lot of space to get rid of the drawing board and do the design on the computer, which I need anyway. From an ecological standpoint, I'm proud to say that I've saved hundreds, maybe thousands of erasers (cute little things) by switching to electronic drafting :o)
Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine www.SScale.org >________________________________ >From: John <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:20 PM >Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} FNF - Doing trackplans > > > >Why would you need a program to design a trackplan? >Starting in 1936 everyone I ever knew drew them by hand. Often on graph >paper. You knew radius limits ,etc. Your room size, and how to draw a >straight line, or a curve with a French curve. >I guess i've been around too long > >We will probably need a computer in a few years to go to the bathroom. >Sorry but the modeler needs today just grab me the wrong way. > >John Armstrong
