http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/ 3rd PlanIt Users Group Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:39 GMT scottgperry@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31757 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31757 Breaking news! Less than adequate magazine is posted on forums everywhere spamming up our inboxes! Can you guys get a subscription list or something? I know Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:22:00 GMT Les Halmos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31756 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31756 BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! Issue #3 of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine was just released into cyberspace! You can download it from: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:01:41 GMT Les Halmos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31755 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31755 BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! Issue #3 of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine was just released into cyberspace! You can download it from: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:51:59 GMT Giles Warren-Browne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31754 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31754 ... Applications (Programs) should always be installed on an Internal HD. External hard drives are good for backups. If you run programs with their DATA files Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:10:44 GMT Ken Berry http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31753 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31753 I set the far distance for about 3 times the longest width of the layout, plus some slop. That way I can put the camera twice as far away from the near edge Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:55:23 GMT Alan B. Pearce http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31752 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31752 ... Do you really want your far distance to be 833 feet? It sounds like reducing that to 1/10 what you have would potentially help, as it would help the units Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:30:17 GMT Ken Berry http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31751 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31751 Troy, Sorry for my long winded, but ineffective, answer. I recall having trouble once where it was turnouts that disappeared, and I think it was a device Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:18:08 GMT Troy Jacobson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31750 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31750 Thanks, I'll take a look around the web for OpenGL issues. My near and far settings are 2" and 10,000". I get trains floating in the air. Another quirk is Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:13 GMT Ken Berry http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31749 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31749 Troy, 3pi uses a software package called OpenGL and nVidia has historically supported OpenGL better than other video chip manufacturers. That does not help Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:31:42 GMT Troy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31748 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31748 I spoke too soon. I thought updating the driver had solved the problem, but it's back. Since no one else said "me too," it must be something quirky with my Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:56:29 GMT Joe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31747 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31747 Cool, got it thank you very much Joe Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:32:26 GMT Rick Blanchard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31746 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31746 I have a conversion chart for degrees to radii on my data page. It is a plain text file so you can format it in your favorite word processor to fit your paper Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:47:52 GMT Harry Wilkins http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31745 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31745 Go to VIEW/TOOLBARS/LIBRARY BAR or Cntl+Alt+I turnes it on or off Harry _____ From: 3rdPlanIt@yahoogroups.com [mailto:3rdPlanIt@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:10:29 GMT Joe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31744 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31744 I closed the library by mistake and can't figure out how to open it. Any help is appreciated. Can't find how to do it in the owner's manual Joe Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:17:05 GMT Joe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31743 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3rdPlanIt/message/31743 Took some work, but I found a chart. In N scale, a #7 would be 34" R, a #10 would be 61.4" R, and a #20, the largest turnout the C&O used, would be a whopping