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posted: 25 Jan 2014 13:21 from: keithj15
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Hi all Having spent a lot of time and research to create a track plan of the local LNWR station in Daventry, I now need to output a DXF file for the CAD designer at our local model club, so he can incorporate it into the final overall design for the baseboards and everything else. I spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to export the DXF file but every time, whatever settings I tried i get no error message, but no file is created. I tried to create a PDF (well within the Acrobat reader limits) but whatever I did no file was created. I tried printing to my epson A3 printer, which either failed to print anything or spat out a blank sheet. I am at a loss to understand where i am going wrong, having printed and created files without problem from an earlier version of Templot2 a couple of years ago. I have trawled through the forum for similar problems, but I think now is the time to raise a topic to beg for help and suggestions. I am running Templot v208c in Windows 7 via VMware Fusion on a 17" MacBook Pro laptop. Overall track plan is approximately 4700x900mm. regards Keith |
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posted: 25 Jan 2014 20:21 from: Martin Wynne
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keithj15 wrote: Hi allHi Keith, Please can you post your .box file here for me to have a look at? It's rare for anyone to have problems exporting to DXF. Are you sure no file is created? By default it will be in your C:\TEMPLOT_DEV\DXF-FILES\ folder. Only background templates can be exported to DXF. The control template, unused templates, and library templates are not exported. Copy them to the background first. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 25 Jan 2014 21:03 from: Paul Boyd
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Hi Keith I've used VMWare Player (the Windows version) in the past, and printing problems usually came down to not connecting the device (printer) to VMWare correctly. I don't know how you do that running Fusion on a Mac. Do other programs print OK to the same printer when running within VMWare? Is it possible to copy the file to a real PC running Templot to see if you can export a DXF on there? Although VMWare is very good, there are sometimes odd quirks inherent in running Windows on a non-native system! Cheers |
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posted: 25 Jan 2014 21:18 from: keithj15
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Hi Martin, I went to look for the box file th the box folder, and the sketch board file in that file and i cannot see any of the files the folders in the windows browser, but i CAN see them within the Templot program. If I can't see the files in the browser, I can't add them to my Templot Club postings. Any ideas what is making the files invisible? :-/ regards Keith |
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posted: 25 Jan 2014 21:34 from: keithj15
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Hi Paul, I use all the usual MS Office Apps like Word etc and they all print to my laser printer and the Epson without problem. Even to my daughters WiFi printer. Unfortunately o don't own a regular PC anymore, but I think the issue may be Windows related because I have just found out i cannot see any of the files I have saved within the Templot Dev folders via the Windows browser or find file utility —— even though they are all there when I browse within the Templot Application — so now I'm thinking this is NOT a Templot problem. Possibly a permissions thing? Although I am signed in as the Admin user :-( regards Keith |
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posted: 25 Jan 2014 21:54 from: keithj15
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Hi Martin I have just found another reason why I dislike Windoze and love Mac! In the browser bar menu I saw an item called "Compatability" and all my invisible files suddenly appeared -- WTF!!-- I'm assuming this is a Windows protection thing that it doesn't recognise a file if Microsoft hasn't written it. Anyways, now I have a whole load of files to look at to see what worked the way I wanted it to. I'm sure I'll be back in touch fairly soon as I am still learning this amazing program. regards Keith |
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posted: 25 Jan 2014 22:00 from: Martin Wynne
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Hi Keith, If you can see the file in the Templot file dialog, right-click on it there and then click Copy. You can then paste it somewhere else on your system which is visible in Windows. regards, Martin. |
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