Railroad Drawing Tool

[lineweight]

Hi,

Is there a way (like in Illustrator) that I can define a "brush" to draw a railroad?

*My help menu won't load and VW2010 keeps failing to download properly, so I can't reinstall the help menu. So I can't investigate this myself.

[CipesDesign]

No, not like Illustrator. But you can probably use the Duplicate Along Path command to get the "ties" laid out, then use a pair of simple extruded shapes to create the "rails". The obvious shortcoming being that you don;t end up with a single editable parametric object....

You might also be able to do a similar thing using the Repetitive Unit tool.

Hope that helps...

[Jim Smith]

One could also draw a HATCH with ties & rails. Once drawn I would insert a Hatch from the MODIFY - HATCH Menus into a polygon with a line set to invisible rather than choosing a hatch from the Attributes as your rails would stay relative and may not be in the location you want them to be.

[Robert Anderson]

Peter is right. If you have one of the Design Series versions of Vectorworks, you can use the Repetitive Unit tool to make a map-style railroad track. (If you want a detailed style track with two rails, you'll have to duplicate the path of the Repetitive Unit and use the offset tool.)

[Turklites]

Hello,

I hope you are all doing well. I am having trouble drawing a rollercoaster track. I need to draw it in 3D and show the highs and lows of the track from various angles for a project I am doing.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you,

Joe