Track planning software

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Just zis Guy, you know? - 29 Oct 2003 18:58 GMT

At present I am using pencil 1.0, but I'm not averse to the idea of track
planning software. HVR2 won't actually run on any of my (several) Windows
PCs and having tried the demo version of WinRail, I can't see an easy way
of setting up the baseboards. Is it just a matter of drawing lines? And
is there an easy way of inserting lines of a given length, rather than
adjusting them later?

Also, the demo version of WinRail won't run under Wine. Has anyone
succeeded in getting any of the Windows based software running under Wine?

Thanks

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Paul Boyd - 29 Oct 2003 22:03 GMT

"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote...

> At present I am using pencil 1.0, but I'm not averse to the idea of track
> planning software. HVR2 won't actually run on any of my (several) Windows
> PCs and having tried the demo version of WinRail, I can't see an easy way
> of setting up the baseboards.

You might like to have a look at Templot, www.templot.com This is a template
generating program, based on real track geometries, but can be used, and is
used, to design complete layouts. It is possible to have background shapes
to lay out baseboards or whatever. Strongly recommended.

Paul

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Jeff Ward - 29 Oct 2003 23:45 GMT

> At present I am using pencil 1.0, but I'm not averse to the idea of track
> planning software. HVR2 won't actually run on any of my (several) Windows
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> Thanks

I haven't got any track planning software running under Wine, but XtrkCad
has a native Linux version, including a demo version.

Jeff

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David Bromage - 30 Oct 2003 08:34 GMT

> I haven't got any track planning software running under Wine, but XtrkCad
> has a native Linux version, including a demo version.

I have used both the Linux and Windows versions of XTrkCad and it does
everything I want it to.

Cheers
David

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Just zis Guy, you know? - 30 Oct 2003 20:04 GMT

> I haven't got any track planning software running under Wine, but XtrkCad
> has a native Linux version, including a demo version.

Thanks <wanders off to sillub.com>

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