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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font><span class="504500915-20042009"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I personally use Alibre Design for my CAD work (</font><a href="http://www.alibre.com/"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.alibre.com/</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">).
Alibre Motion is a VisualWorks-based "addon" for Alibre Design (</font></span></font><a href="http://www.ar-cad.com/about/askoh.html"><font face="Arial" size="2"></a><a href="http://www.ar-cad.com/about/askoh.html). I">http://www.ar-cad.com/about/askoh.html</font></a><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2">)<span class="504500915-20042009">.
</span></font></font></font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span class="504500915-20042009">I found Alibre to be easier to use than other CAD programs I've used--and the entry price was right.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span class="504500915-20042009">I'm thinking that VW might produce data models that can be displayed and edited through Alibre Design. Askoh could probably give some guidance in that area.
Probably quicker than creating a CAD program yourself, though I'd love to see more CAD features in a Smalltalk environment.</span></font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> vwnc-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:vwnc-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eliot Miranda<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> brett<br>
<b>Cc:</b> vwnc NC; The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vwnc] Any good starting points for a slot car layout program?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:24 PM, brett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dragoncity@aanet.com.au">dragoncity@aanet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Eliot,<br>
I think you'd be better off using a CAD program, many have add-ons that<br>
might do exactly what you want, without the problems of trying to<br>
'drive' the Smalltalk graphics modules , *unless* that's really what you<br>
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<div>What I really want to do is a) create an easy to use user interface (everything else I've seen sucks) and b) create "scale models" of real tracks from Google earth images. To do both of these I'd rather have the source (and hence I'd rather have Smalltalk
source) than live with a caned program.</div>
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<div>So I could start with FreeCAD but 3D is perhaps overkill.</div>
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For example 'Design-CAD' offers model rail track layout facilities, with<br>
all the various track types already defined, all you have to do is<br>
place them as you desire. Design-CAD also has a Basic-CAD language<br>
built in for your own developments. Most CAD programs offer similar<br>
facilities.<br>
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<div class="im">Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5">> Hi All,<br>
> does anyone know of an extant program for doing model track<br>
> layouts? if not, does anyone know of a good starting point? I want<br>
> a Smalltalk program that will do 2D layouts of scalextric slot car<br>
> track. I want a Smalltalk program, preferrably for a Squeak<br>
> dialect. Any suggestions?<br>
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> best<br>
> Eliot<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Brett<br>
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