Rob, Trees and other structures act like Turnouts in how you add them to the layout. You either Select them in the "Add Structure" window or Select them on the hotbar (if you have enough the

Hey Tony, I never would have thought of some of these, but I can see how it would be beneficial to layer these. Thanks man, that’s really helpful. I’ve got my work cutout for me. Appreciate

Hi Rob Just as an example, I used the following layers on my last largish layout: * Room shape (including heater, stairs, windows, doors, power points) so I knew exactly how much room I had. *

I tried adding a "tree" structure to my layout but wasn't able to. I went to Add Structures, selected the "tree", but the OK button was grayed out so it wouldn't let me add it. Is there a step I'm

Hi Adam, Thank you for the info. Your explanation of the change in elevation makes sense. I'll go ahead and start adding the track as suggested. Will be interring to see what that grade really is.

And the scenery will all be 2D projection (rooftops) as well -> like a traditional map, really. We have not had the manpower, developer interest or skillset to go into 3D directly - which would

Rob, First just draw the fourth track as it appears to a camera looking down onto the track (a 2D plan projection). Then the trick here is "Change Elevations". (It is the icon with an arrow and a

Hi All, I recently started working on adding an existing N Scale layout to XTrackCAD. This is a NTRAK modular layout that's 30"x72". This used to be my dad's and needs some restoration work, so this

Martin, There already exists a way in V5.1 of highlighting the unconnected ends of tracks - you can Options->Display->Draw Unconnected EndPoints->Exception. If there is a pair of touching track ends

Hi devs and users, sometimes I miss a feature to display not connected end of the railways lying direct together. Move Rail from one end to another point connecting and the other end leaves

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that the following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the main@xtrackcad.groups.io group. /Adam's Files/peco code80 SL386 curved

Ah Barry Island, home of the eponymous "Barry Slip"! For those not familiar it is an "almost" double slip where there is no way from top to bottom - basically two tightly interleaved opposing hand

Darn that's right. At the moment only the background image is packed together with the layout into the package file. We designed the package to be extendable with a manifest xml file, but we didn't

Everything is easier once you've done it. LOL B

Robert, in fact it is quite easy: You navigate to the shot you want to share in Google Earth. From the address bar you copy the URL to the clipboard

Robert, I hate to disappoint you a bit. As Adam mentions you can add links to websites and links to files on your system to your plan. I use that to add references to pictures of kits on the web.

I am afraid this is going over my head, but it is such an appealing idea I would like to figure it out. Can I attach Google earth shots of a particular feature and bundle the images with the track

Adam, if you really wanted to prove the need for compression in layouts, and keeping Wales as the theme, try putting together a plan of the Barry Island Port Terrminal. That is enough to keep you

Robert, Links with URLs are already included in the V5.2 code - thanks to Martin. You can double-click on them and the default browser window for your platform opens as you might expect. Any URL the

Along the same line, would it be possible to import an image into Xtrac when following a prototype, so that the images are on a separate layer? Possibly a link could be place on the layout display, so