Track Planning Shareware

[chuck geiger]

Do any of you have any track planning shareware you can, Uh Share? - Other than Atlas RTS!

[John]

Xtrkcad

[Ian MacMillan]

Xtrkcad

Second!

[RDG_Rich]

Third!  ;D

I don't have the link for the place to get it, but if you google xtrkcad, you should find it right away. It takes some getting used to, and the yahoo xtrkcad group is a good place to find info about the software.

[Iain]

Its hosted on Sourceforge.  I downloaded the source for the newest version the other day, just haven't gotten around to compiling yet.

[diezmon]

start here

http://www.xtrkcad.org/Wikka/HomePage

[wm3798]

I spend all day staring at CAD.  I prefer the tried and true graph paper method.

Lee

[chuck geiger]

Funny you say that Lee, that's what I'm doing now. I'm going to round the room on a shelf and work as a real LDE. There are still too many aspects of my modeling that are toy like. I.e. too many tracks close together, structures that don't make any sense and not built for any kind of operation. I'm so hooked on scenery that I forget a lot of operation/track planning elements.

[chuck geiger]

Wow this is pretty complicated for an average computer literate a$$hat.

[RDG_Rich]

Took me a while to get used to it too...

[Norm P]

I've downloaded both the Atlas stuff and the Xtrkcad stuff, but both of them have a fairly steep learning curve for me.  I'm leaning towards finding a good plan on the net and copying it.

[chuck geiger]

I couldn't find the drop down for the scale and room size, but I'm at work and IT won't
let us download anything on our network (which is good) will try when I get home!

[RDG_Rich]

Options menu\ Layout

Shortcut: CTRL+ALT+A

[chuck geiger]

Thanks Rich need to start with that and how do you see the entire layout room, can you scale it down and use 1:1 later? BTW 10' x 10' for N scale (but of course I have some N Scale Grey Poupon)

[asciibaron]

i use 3rd plan it - it's ok, but the learning curve is steep.