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Ed; You'll have to realize I had an ulteria motive to my original post. I'm kind of a nut when it comes to taking things to the limit. As a matter of point, I've had no less than a dozen or more distinctly different occupations in my life. I've worked the plant, done product engineering, architectual design, owned a printing company, been editor of a national computer magazine, graphics manager for a large mfg. company, been a computer systems manager, programmer, trainer and now a consultant. And these are only the highlights. Which brings me to my new adventure, I've picked up a HP Draftmaster multi-pen plotter that can handle D size and larger drawings. I've also come by the new AutoSketch v8 program. What I want to do is see what I can do to put out true scale drawings of model railroad stuff. By stuff I leave to whole gamit wide open. I haven't done any engineering in about 10 or more years. My last project as a freelancer was for GE doing facilities design in AutoCAD. So I'll need to start out small. I've tested out the system tonight and found I can draw in real dimensions and output to true HO scale (3.5mm to the foot). This is going to be fun. Draw in real dimensions and just set the output for whatever scale you need and wha-la exact templates. If anyone has a CAD program that puts out DWG or DXF files I'd be glad to plot them out for just the mailing cost....Walt
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