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I have been playing with XtrkCad for a while and find it fairly straight forward. Mind you I used an architectural CAD program to design our home. The building plans have to be done by a licenced designer so I emailed him my file and voilá – house plan for building permit. SQUIDBAIT has...

There were certainly Fletcher class (DESRON 25) based in Pearl Harbor in the mid-60's; so your time frame is correct. Most were FRAM I and II converions (upgrades)

Have to agree with railohio that you can adjudt your pictures but usually the publisher will require the RAW photo file be submitted along with the jpeg file. You will notice that in some of the layout pictures the magazine will state that, i.e., the back ground has been added as in...

Thanks protoam.xtc file was missing. As suggested. I opened one of the many layouts posted on the xtrkcad yahoo group that had a loco and half a dozen box cars and exported the inventory file and imported it to mine. It worked a treat. I have some cad experience and after working my way...

Thanks, I will try that.

I have downloaded the xtrkcad program a couple of times. There is supposed to be a file with a basic loco and car inventory included; presumably the one for the screen shot used in the demo. :confused: Generally, the program works well but I want to check some of the lengths in my...

I pass at least two Home Depots to get to Ikea but I am in the city often and it would not invole a special run. DIY is a factor but so is the mess and the time. I was just looking for an option so now I will put some numbers to it. I didn't expect to start this until October but, with all...

Thanks for your reply. I am 6'6" so the negative might not be too bad. I will use the sort of screw levellers that Ikea uses for their kitchen cabinets. I plan to use the "X" braces for at least every second unit and have a layer of sheling along the bottom with one or two layers above...

This is my best guess for a forum to post this on. I have a fairly large area ( 14' x 24' ) in the basement of a new home and will be starting new layout from scratch. Have some rolling stock. Disadvantage is that I cannot get a 4 x 8 sheet around the corner to the stairwell. A sheet...