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Re: software for drawing stations
By:Simon Baillie
Date: 5/28/2001, 9:11 pm
In Response To: software for drawing stations (Gordon Snapp)

boy I wish my computer was that fast!

I used microsoft excel to plot my stations. Once you enter the coordinates, you just make a scatter graph. By changing the scales of the axes to a size that fits on a page, you print your stations on a few sheets. It takes a few adjustments to the margins to get the scale to print exactly, but after one is done, the rest are easy.

good luck!

: Yay! I just bought a new computer. It's a Pentium 4 (1400 mhz.) I'd like to
: use it to take the offsets for the Guillemot from Nick's book and draw the
: stations. My printer will only hold 8.5 x 11" paper, so I'm guessing
: I'll have to print the plans on a couple of sheets of paper and tape them
: together. Does anyone know of any good software for doing this? (I don't
: want to become an architect or engineer; probably the only thing I would
: use the software for would be this one task.)

Messages In This Thread

software for drawing stations
Gordon Snapp -- 5/25/2001, 8:24 pm
Re: software for drawing stations
Simon Baillie -- 5/28/2001, 9:11 pm
Re: software for drawing stations
Norman Sisson -- 5/27/2001, 11:00 pm
Re: software for drawing stations
Rick Mitchell -- 5/27/2001, 2:53 am
Re: software for drawing stations
Richard Boyle -- 5/26/2001, 12:49 am
Re: software for drawing stations
Greg Hughes -- 5/29/2001, 12:29 pm
Software or Not
Mike Scarborough -- 5/26/2001, 9:14 am