Right there is an imposed minimum of 1 ft x 1 ft for the room. But you can define a layout area within the room of whatever size you like as a baseboard. Do you really have a room that small? Adam

#Bug

Also see comments about the prompt changes that occur in Select Mode as you select and deselect tracks. The simplest answer is to DeSelect All (or ESC) and keep the cursor off the tracks.

#HowTo

It is an aim of mine to have the PDF manual in a "well-known" place. Due to current vaguries of the documentation system we use, it can't be auto-produced at the moment, which means it is hard to pack

#HowTo

You may prefer the "classic" select style where Select click only adds and select on nothing doesn't deselect anything - you can set two options. Options->Command->Select Mode->Add to Selection, and a

Feature Request #158 created. Adam

#HowTo #FeatureRequest

Deselect it. (Click on a blank area). Back to brown? Also Deselect All or Esc. It will be blue if you are over it and it isn’t selected, red if over it and selected, yellow of off it when it is select

Yes - it is not a limit - it just highlights if the limit is exceeded. That’s true if you draw or use any type of curve. The distinction is that bezier and Cornu are compounds rather than fixed radius

#HowTo

Track colors - each one overrides in this order. 1. Normal Track Color. Options->Colors->Normal Track (default black) and Options->Color->Track Ties (if ties shown at that zoom). 2. Color by Layer ->

#HowTo

Shawn, In Train Mode, you can click anywhere on the layout while the trains are running (giving the window focus) and then you can use the arrow keys (and the arrow keys with shift) to pan in half win

#HowTo #FeatureRequest

Maybe you are misunderstanding the display. As others said that is likely your room boundaries. To expand its visible size “Zoom In”. You can also use the letter ‘e’ for extents and. The cursor is ove

#HowTo

Chris, Thanks for the input - Are you sure you are looking at the correct Context Menu? There are two. In 5.2.2, I can select the track and then use the Local Context menu (Right-Click or Shift+Right-

#FeatureRequest #HowTo

Steve, Can you explain what aspects of operation you would wish to perform? The Train mode we have today allows you to run multiple trains but will not simulate a control panel exactly (for example yo

#jmri

Steve, There is an XTrkCAD layout to JMRI importer to build JMRI Panels. It is available from the JMRI distro. This takes the track and produces a panel from it. Don't know of an importer for JMRI def

#jmri

1. Select Color Track to "Object" in Options->Display 2. Make sure that Options->Colors->Track Ties is set to what you want. Adam

#HowTo

I think if you extend the point to also include "Mouse Moves" although we have made some progress lately, but there is still some ways to go in the program. There are the keyboard shortcuts to get dir

#HowTo

Welcome aboard !! Three sources - - go through the Demos (under Help) - the Help manual - (now also available for download as a .pdf) https://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork/files/XTrackCad/Vers

#HowTo

Bill, Originally table edges were supposed to be the bounds of the bench work. They are always straight and they keep a constant width at all scales. Now you can use lines of all types (straight, curv

#FAQ

You can also try using the "Cornu 3-Way Turnout" in Turnout Builder. Each of the 3 diverging endpoints is defined by its position and angle relative to the toe (position 0,0 and angle 0) and also has

#Parameter

Would be interested in the modify, edit or split comment detail. There have been some advances in V5.2 on that, and I’m always interested in new use cases. FWIW - Cornu are now fully splittable and yo

The fixes for Ian's issues were relatively late, so the latest code has the issues he raised fixed and that is what I tested with. A major difference will be the that blue ball will only appear with A