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Dash patterns: for railway lines
1. I'm using Xtreme Pro 3.2.3. I think I may have found a bug when selecting a particular dash pattern in the Line gallery. If you select the second dash pattern (the first is a solid line) it also causes the last pattern to be selected. See the attached file. The last pattern cannot then be selected.
2. Are there any plans to develop a 'dash pattern editor', such as the one at http://engsw.com/PowerCADD/Dashs/Dashs.html
I would find this extremely useful.
3. Does anyone have a method for creating editable railway lines - i.e. two parallel curves (rails) with regularly spaced sleepers?
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Re: Dash patterns: for railway lines
I would use 3 lines to draw each section of track.
1. Draw the rails line... ( in my example I used and elipse with a transparent fill and a line width of 32 pts)
2. clone the Line (cntrl-k) This creates a duplicate line at the same postion as the first line. Change the line color to black and set the the line width to something smaller than the rail width (in my example I use a 24 pt line.)
3. Create a custom brush consists of 1 tie (sleeper to you european guys)
4. Clone the top line, then change the freehand and brush tool and apply the custom tie brush... Adjust the tie spacing to specs...
Now draw the choo-choo yourself... :D
See attached file for choo-choo track.
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Re: Dash patterns: for railway lines
Many thanks Raynerj1 and Egg for your suggestions. This was exactly what I was looking for. :)
Egg's method is a little bit more fiddly, but unlike the three line method it does work successfully with coloured sleepers/ties. See attached file.
Anyone else agree there is a problem with selecting the second standard dash pattern from the line gallery in the new version of Xtreme Pro?
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I tried all the dash patterns... dey all werks fur me... sorry can not duplicate.:)
Re: Dash patterns: for railway lines
Works fine for me too. Try Un-install / Re-install.
Re: Dash patterns: for railway lines
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Originally Posted by
Noel Williams
Anyone else agree there is a problem with selecting the second standard dash pattern from the line gallery in the new version of Xtreme Pro?
Confirmed.
Basically, if you have a line drawn and selected on the page, you can't swap between applying the 2nd pattern and applying the last pattern. You always have to apply an intermediate pattern.
(Oh, and it doesn't matter whether you apply the pattern by dbl-clicking the pattern or selecting it and clicking the 'Apply' button.)