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Title: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: James Fuller on March 28, 2010, 08:17:48 AM
Is there a way to duplicate the attached screen with FF?
These are just statics used as a frame.

James
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: James Fuller on March 28, 2010, 09:59:40 AM
Never mind I got it. The trick(?) is to do the labels last then switch back to front ( or vice versa ) before you run.
You can select them all during design it's just you don't see the inner selection squares.
Edit:
I also found a way to add an item after you created the bounding label.
select the label and cut. create a new item and then paste the label and move it to desired position.

James
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: Andrew Lindsay on March 29, 2010, 09:03:38 AM
James,

I'm interested in what you're doing (with the software, not necessarily the GUI).  Earlier on in my career I was doing quite a bit of stray current monitoring with Light Rail systems.

Are you able to discuss?  PM me if you are.

Best regards

Andrew
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: Roger Garstang on March 29, 2010, 11:22:32 AM
Since my Dad does N-Scale model railroads my mind seems stuck on something to control and monitor that, but other buttons seem to show it handling full size or Subway/Transit systems.
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: John Montenigro on March 29, 2010, 12:28:08 PM
Roger,
I had to laugh! I also model in N-scale, and I had the same "train of thought" as yours when I first looked at James' screen!  ;D
-JohnM.
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: David Kenny on March 30, 2010, 09:48:02 PM
That would be going a little overboard to do alignments in AutoCAD or Microstation for a model train.  They are both multi-thousands of dollars per license.  ::) 

Sounds to me like James works for one of the state DOTs or maybe an engineering/consulting firm.

David
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: Roger Garstang on March 31, 2010, 12:20:36 PM
Pocket Change to some of the guys really into it or a club setting up modules of track at shows.  These guys will pay $20 to several hundred for a single car of a train.  Some of the electrical circuits these guys build to control their stuff makes a New York subway system look like slot car racing.
Title: Re: duplicate the attached screen
Post by: David Kenny on March 31, 2010, 03:39:55 PM
Of course, you are right Roger.  I also realized later that people who already have and use CAD software for their livelihood, might also have hobbies (who would have thunk?).  If I already had it, I would find other uses for it myself. ;)

David