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Line Drawing
The Draw commands is used to draw lines, arcs and other shapes.
These can be used to represent water edges, bridges and other scenic features.
There are 4 command buttons on the toolbar used to draw Straight Objects, Curved Lines, Circles and other Shapes.
Each command button is followed by a button that changes the action (and Icon) on the command button.
Some commands display controls on the Status Line to change line width, color or other attributes of the object.
The Status Bar contains:
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Straight Line, Curved Line, Circle, Box or Poly Line: the Line Width and Color.
The Line Width is specified in pixels for the current drawing scale.
If you Zoom In or Out the lines will be drawn wider or narrower.
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Filled Circles or Polygons: the Color.
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Dimension Line: the size (Tiny, Small, Medium or Large)
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Benchwork: type and size of the lumber (regular rectangular, L-Girder or T-Girder) and orientation.
Note: on 256 color displays the button color may not be the same as the color on the layout due to differences in the way colors are rendered on buttons.
Benchwork Notes:
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Lumber is drawn using the Dressed size which is 0.25" smaller than the indicated size: 1"x2" actually measures 0.75"x1.75".
The drawn height of Girders is 0.5" smaller.
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Girders can be drawn in a variety of orientations: normal, inverted or rotated.
L-Girders can be drawn with the flange to the Left or Right.
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When using metric units, a 1"x2" is labeled 50mm x 25mm
Objects can be changed by the Modify Command:
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The End-Points of a Line, Dimension Line, Table Edge or Benchwork can be dragged to new positions.
A Box is treated as 4 Lines.
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An Curved Line is modified in same manner as modifying a curved track.
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Selecting a corner of a Poly Line, Filled Box or Polygon moves that corner to a new position, and if moved close to a neighboring corner will merge the two corners and delete the edge between them.
Selecting an edge will create a corner that can be dragged to a new position.
The Describe command can be used to change the color and width of the Lines and Shapes.
The Group command can be used to group Lines and Shapes to form Structures or to add them to Turnouts.
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