Military Airfields in the British Isles 1939-1945

AutoSketch always worked for me. Used it at college and have been ever since on the few occasions I've had to draught something or GIS stuff.

Graham

I used AutoCAD & Solidworks.

Well the book confirms the site plan info that there where 4 T2's & a B1 at Desborough but looking at the hangar marked as a B1 on the record site plan it look more like a T2 to me so maybe the B1 was one of the 2 now missing.

I've found sketchup good for tracing an airfiled as you can zoom to it in google earth then take a snapshot of that view in sketchup.

Carnaby;32715 wrote:

Peter and bucanneer - Off Topic but:
which CAD do you use. Decades ago I drew all my plans on IBM mainframe CADAM. I've failed to find a Windoze application which is as easy to use.

The company made me redundant with the provisor - until your official leaving date just turn up for work and amuse yourself. I spent six weeks drawing site plans. The day I left they presented me with a 1 inch computer tape-reel containing all my drawings. A year later I worked for another company with IBM mainframe. The tech guy said he could transfer all my drawings to DXF format which would work in a DOS environment. Unfortunately he failed as he couldn't read the tape. Turned out that if you don't use a tape-reel for a long while the data 'prints-through' from one layer to the adjacent ones and corrupts.

Graham

I use (still) DesignCAD. As model making is also a hobby, I initially used a programme ModelCAD then graduated to DesignCAD when I picked up an original programme in a PC store very cheap during a sale. I still use it although its unsupported because it's familiar and does everything I want despite some quirks.

I did try AutoCAD Light at one stage but it was just too feature heavy and a steep learning curve.

I sympathise with the loss of your 'on-tape' drawings. I think we have all had an experience of losing hours or even days or months of work through similar events. Even the backups we all keep now (don't we!) are still liable to loss for unforseen reasons.