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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.:)
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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.)
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agreed
selecting second 'locks' the last
selecting last 'locks' the second
to 'unlock' need to select an intermediate pattern
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Ah, I can duplicate that now. I was using what you would call the 3rd pattern (I didn't count the solid line as a pattern).
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Yes, this is definitely a bug. The last dash pattern is actually a special one used for drawing the guidelines. The size of the dashes does not scale with the line width like it does for all the other styles and the actual dash definition is the same as the first one in the list. This confuses the gallery causing both of them to appear selected.
This problem is present back to Xtreme 2.0 (and probably earlier). It should be a pretty trivial fix.
Gerry
Re: Dash patterns: for railway lines
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Originally Posted by
Noel Williams
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?
Nice Tracks Noel - Tom
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Cheers Tom. Attached is a xar file as an example of how using a single line, cloning it and giving it various line widths you can generate very convincing roads, railway lines and rivers.
One further point Tom. I'm on a new Crusade .... unless it is absolutely necessary please don't repeat earlier posting within new posts. It's not needed.
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Originally Posted by
Egg Bramhill
* * * Edited Responsibly * * *
One further point Tom. I'm on a new Crusade .... unless it is absolutely necessary please don't repeat earlier posting within new posts. It's not needed.
Hmmm, So, Simply: "No Quoting" ? Some Questions come to mind :eek: :
When did this start? (did I miss a post about it) - Am I the 1st ;-^)
Always Happy to Try to Follow the Requests - Thanks for Heads Up . . .
Re: Dash patterns: for railway lines
Tom it is unnecessary to quote a post that is immediately before your reply. Anyone viewing the thread can see both without a duplicate within the reply.
It is wasteful of hard drive space on the Xara servers and makes following the logic of a thread difficult.
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So is continual Wacking - :( - Tom
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Tom, it's just a request. Very sinilar to "Please stay on topic" requests. It's a comment you're likely to see over the next few weeks in a few threads. It's just a matter of trying to keep the threads clean and mean. No offence was intended, just some minor Moderation.
Dash patterns bug still present in XXP4
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Originally Posted by
GerryI
Yes, this is definitely a bug. The last dash pattern is actually a special one used for drawing the guidelines. The size of the dashes does not scale with the line width like it does for all the other styles and the actual dash definition is the same as the first one in the list. This confuses the gallery causing both of them to appear selected.
This problem is present back to Xtreme 2.0 (and probably earlier). It should be a pretty trivial fix.
Gerry
This bug is still present in the trial version of Xara Xtreme Pro 4.
Noel
