hi, new user here. I have built one track plan for a small shelf layout. I have added a handful of cars and locomotives in my inventory. Scrolling right it says they are “on the layout”. They are not.

I was modifying a structure - the Canal Bridge at the very bottom of the layout - and was doing the last step and Grouping it again. It was giving me a different name - the name of the boat in the mid

I would like to add a snowplow to my roster. It has a coupler on only one end. Can that be done in xtrackcad?

I've recently installed XTrackCAD after using a much earlier version. It is greatly improved over the version 4.x I last used. One thing still lacking is the ability to easily create structures. I'm a

I just ran into a situation where xtrkcad 5.2.1a, running on Ubuntu 20.04, crashes reproduceably with a segment fault doing something involving angles. It's easily reproduceable. My xtc file is attach

A small crash in UpdateBezier() in this code where using Describe on a Bezier Line (not track( This code assumes we have a Bezier track instead of a Line (which don't have EndPts) case CP1: if (GetTrk

Umm, Adam or any other of the Design Team... I was just showing a fix for putting this line back into place and it went all over the place. I would really like to know what is going wrong. Probably no

A quick tutorial on drawing a line to fit within a piece of track. Recorded on Loom so there is a 5-minute maximum length. Feel very free to comment or ask questions. Also, feel free to ask for other

Hi, now working in 5.22 beta on a Win10 system and something just isn't right with it. For starters, just on install, it took two starts to get the program to come up successfully. It crashed immediat

I just started using XTrackCAD (5.2.0 Beta 2.1 running under Ubuntu 20.10. Much of my HO layout has been built with Atlas sectional track (0.75 to 9-inch strait sections and 24-inch radius curved sect

Russell Shilling added folder /Garden Railroad/G Track Info

I design my layouts in XtrackCad using N scale Unitrack sectional track, which offers a very wide variety of track pieces. I often want to review a layout to figure out where short radius curves are u

I'm a new XtrackCAD user and I'm trying to find a way to anchor or lock tracks in place so they cannot accidentally be moved. Running: XtrackCAD 5.1.2a on a Mac with Mojave 10.14.6 and XQuartz 2.7.11.

How would the railroads pull a cold steamer from the roundhouse onto the turntable and get it out of the way, or insert a cold engine for repairs? Would the turn table be large enough to accommodate a

It appears that there is a problem with the xtq file, in that when I start up, the parameter files from last session do not load and I get an error message. When I open the library, I get another erro

Because of the importance of one bug in particular (not being able to set current layer) we have just released a V5.1.2a and replaced the builds for OSX, Windows and Linux in the SourceForge library.

I just discovered Xtrackcad and joined this group. I am running Big Sur. I downloaded the latest version and moved it from the download folder to the applications folder. I double-clicked, received th

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the main@xtrackcad.groups.io group. /Dwyane's FIles/XTrackCAD User's Manual 5.2.1a.pdf By: Dwyane Ward Description: PDF of XTrackCAD User's

In the process of designing a new layout, I was wondering if anybody ever tried to draw catenary. Setting up catenary is quite a bit of work, and it would help a lot if I can make a proper inventory o

Hey folks, Strange issue. I'm using about 12 layers on my current design. However when I try to change the default layer from Layer 1 to any other layer that has content, I get the following error. "N