No worries. Always good to find someone who is interested in "internals". We have some users who do a lot of turnout building, so if you have questions, I'm sure they will be able to help. Just post h

Lucien, http://xtrkcad-fork.sourceforge.net/Wikka/FileFormats You may also find the turnout builder tool in the program useful - you can feed in external dimensions and produce a definition - which wo

Chris, If you had looked after changing the gauge/scale to 009 those red "balls" in the parm library would have turned green.... The reasons for the dynamic color coding was that people did not rememb

Yes, thanks for those kind words - the complexity of re-optimization for radius would need a really clever mathematician such as Raph Levien (who wrote the spiro open-source libraries that we use). I

Correct on both counts. The Cornu algorithm part is very deep seated. It is apparently an issue that can occur in the use of long wooden splines when laying out boat profiles as well. The solution ado

Martin, The bug was that the code was not checking for end angles that are close enough before calling Connect in all the cases. Pushed fix to 5.3.0. It should have failed to connect silently because

Interesting - 1) A bug in the Convert Logic is present. The interior Joins are not presenting the right ends for Join by position but the angles are correct - so that's one bug to sort out. 2) I found

A way to investigate is to temporarily use the command convert the Cornu to Fixed elements. This will render as the set of fixed curves and straights that make up the Cornu. If the smallest radius of

In case folks are wondering what a scissors wye is - here is an asymmetrical example on the CSX in Louisville. It allows the wye to have larger radii with a smaller "foot" by starting at least one lin

Scissors Wye suggested approach - Place the base Wye point and the diamond crossing (unconnected) as far apart as you need them. The snap grid will ensure that the centers are aligned. Then rotate the

It only works with draw objects as of yet. You can add a feature request to make it work for tracks as well. As Dave points out you can Split a track. Adam

First, you may not be observing that there are both traditional easements and Cornu easements (selected with the Easement Control). If you "Join" with a traditional easement, the tracks will be trimme

Mike, That support already exists - there is a package available from the JMRI site that imports XTrackCAD layout elements from an XTC file and creates a JMRI Panel from them. It was updated relativel

So there are several parts to the answer - Yes, you can do that. The train mode supports operation over the tracks you design. You can couple/uncouple trains, etc. Yes, you can do that, you can also g

Mike, Not directly - there are two main categories (separately documented). The text objects that can be added by the text tool. This is an object that can be placed anywhere. It can be grouped with d

If there is a general need for a fixed font size regardless of zoom function (for example for labels that remain legible at all zoom levels) - then an enhancement could be made to the text objects to

So the code around this has probably changed a bit and may be platform specific (Windows versus rest), so caveat experimenter. On my Mac, if you set the Options->Fonts->Size to a value the next use of

Label Scale is when the labels are suppressed (what zoom level above which they disappear). So you need to be "below" that Zoom level to see any labels at all. And which labels appear is under the con

The new box is a polygon with 4 sides that knows it is a rectangle. The old one was 4 separate lines that are only related by being aligned at the ends when created initially. The difference comes in

The question is, I guess, are the icons transparent background? if so, if we simply make the icons solid white background with no transparency, or put a white rectangle behind that area would that sol

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