Hello,

A little project I'm pondering has a turntable at the heart of it, and this will have a key roll in the geometry of all track on the layout.

So, I've drawn the 300mm turntable as a background image, with the centre and 155mm on the x and y to allow sufficient room around the baseboard... at least for the purpose of this planning. 

I then created a bit of plain track 300mm long and moved the peg to the "mid-length". I had the ambition of moving this track so the peg centred on the turntable and then I could "F8 rotate at peg" from there. 

Now, I'm sure that this is an incredibly rookie question, but I promise I've googled "rotation centre dimension", clicked on the "? info" boxes [error - no text  0]  and checked the companion page [Sorry, nothing here yet. (page under construction)]... However, the "rotation centre dimension" doesn't seem to be related to the left and bottom of the layout and despite trying various values I can't seem to accurately get my track centred on x:155 y:155. I can't seem to fathom what the +/- x and y shift does either? If I do it manually, the x dimension appears to be linked to the left of the actual template, and the y certainly isn't the track centre. I can rotate around the peg, but I can't seem to move based upon it?

Many thanks in anticipation.
Cheers,

Alex
 


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Hi Alex,

Don't use that dialog. Instead,

1. geometry > notch > set notch position and angle... menu item.

2. geometry > notch > shift onto notch menu item.

regards,

Martin.

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Hi Martin,
Thanks for your lightning fast response! Notch set at 155,155 and template quickly relocated there... easy when you know how!  

Right... onwards and upwards!

Cheers,

Alex


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