Making the cut

[srude]

Hello;

With thanks to Yorkshire for pointing me to the 5m grid solution, I did a, what I must confess, is an unscientific experiment.

On the table top, I ran a straight section of track, from edge to edge. I aligned the track ends with the gray, 5m line, created a mountian then applied the "smooth spline" function. I got my cut. Being a diehard yankee, I use the Imperial setting in Surveyor.

Then, applying the ruler, I measured the cut = 33.7 feet.

I moved over and created the same thing in parallel, this time, I centered the track on the 10m line and made another cut.

The measurement = 66.1 feet.

It therefore, appears that one can have both cuts on the same board, depending upon which reference is chosen.

Is this correct, or, has my computer smoked some funny stuff while I was away at the store?

Cheers,

srude

 

[Ronstrainz]

I tried the same test on a new board and sure enough, I got two different cuts depending on whether the track was centered on a yellow (10m) grid line or a black (5m) grid line. At the the 5 m grid did produce a narrower cut at the track level, but the sides of the cut were not sloped as steeply as those on the 10m grid, so at the tops of the cuts, It looked about the same width.

Curious, though, and a good thing to know if you need either type of cut for a specific reason.