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topic: 3186Rail Edges in Generator
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posted: 16 Jan 2018 20:36

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Andrew Barrowman
 
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An extremely selfish request:

Would it be possible to put the inside and outside edges of rails on separate layers in a DXF export from Templot?

When I'm populating a template with chairs in TurboCAD I use the inside rail edge as the reference but at times it's useful to be able to see the outside edges of rails as well. TurboCAD allows me to make layers visible or invisible so I can turn them on or off as required.

Regards,
Andy

posted: 16 Jan 2018 20:45

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Martin Wynne
 
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Andrew Barrowman wrote:
An extremely selfish request:

Would it be possible to put the inside and outside edges of rails on separate layers in a DXF export from Templot?
Hi Andy,

You can do this if you export them to two different DXF files. The required settings are in the generator > generator settings > rails > menu options.

Do a generator > rebuild all background after changing the settings. Then export DXF again. Presumably your CAD can import more than one DXF file at a time?

DXF files from Templot are ancient ASCII text format, so you can edit the layer names in the file in any text editor.

For such an editor you can't do better than Notepad++ (free): http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Just do search & replace on the layer names. You wouldn't even need to open the file if you don't want to, N++ can do in-file search & replace.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 16 Jan 2018 20:59

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Andrew Barrowman
 
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Thanks Martin. That should work. I'll give it a go.

Regards,
Andy

posted: 17 Jan 2018 05:22

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That works perfectly.

Thanks again.



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