Actually, I have four different Cad programs. I have Generic Cadd which I started on in the mid 80's and still have the latest version which was discontinued by Autodesk a few years back. I purchased Autocadd LT in 1998. I also have Autocadd 3D starting at 8.0 to Autocadd 2000. The 8.0 version came on
5 1/4 " floppies. Been a while.I also have Chief Architect which is an applicati>G'day all,
=>Jay Cunington writ: =>My worst one that I always have to look up: occurrence. Or is it =>occurance? Anyone have a good mnemonic for that one? I can never =>remember which is correct. =>----------------------------------------------- =>If it occurred, it's an occurrence. If it occurad . . . well, then =>you'll know it's wrong! =>
=>Bill =>Bill's Railroad Empire =>N Scale Model Railroad:
Basic rule: If there's a related verb (occur) , spell -ence (occurrence.)
The verbs ending in -end (defend, pretend) have their own quirks, though - you'll just have to memorize (or memorise).
Would colour coding help?
"E Litella"
More than color coding would. :-)
-- Cheers Roger T.
It's an inexact scIEnce.
All one has to remember is that are no rules in American English, just memory!
Now that sounds interesting!
Mark.
I use an AutoCAD clone available off the Internet called Intellicad. I've used AutoCAD and my opinion is IntelliCAD is actually easier to use. They claim that it can read and write .DWG files but I haven't actually checked that they are fully compatible with AutoCAD.
CTucker NY
Oooooh, Mark, do you know what your temptation is doing to my On30 layout budget/funding??? I found myself intently studying some Waratah
7mm scale kits at Casula the other day, if I hadn't bought a sound decoder* for my On30 Shay the week before, I would have buckled. Now I have until Liverpool to save!I shall contact you with my correct email address directly to your optusnet addy, if that's OK. Yes, I would damn well like those effing
19 class pix!!! :)Steve Newcastle (well, Edgeworth, really)
You also need leather balls to play rugby!
Bob Boudreau
Printing on adhesive paper is an interesting idea that I'll try. My new printer will handle thin styrene sheet, but for larger thicknesses, or sheet brass/NS, this sounds like the go.
Cheers,
Mark.
So assuming that one can afford the software does anyone have hints/suggestions on actually creating the drawings?
First step is to decide what you want to draw!
This entire book, all scale drawings, was done with Microsoft Visio:
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